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Review on ๐Ÿ’ป Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card for MacBook Air(2013-2016) and MacBook Pro(Late 2013-2015) Upgrade (Black) by Adam Mazie

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Samsung 970 Evo plus 1TB in 2014 MacBook A1502

My stars only for adapters that work with 970 Evo plus 1TB SSD to fit 2014 MacBook A1502 old Macs work, for everything else I have the firmware/ updated the driver available for evo plus on Samsung website. If it hasn't updated to the latest version, I've used USB to format the mac to download and run at boot to check if ssd has already been updated with samsung firmware, used nvme case to run evo ssd in apfs formatting and booting macos catalina before installation, booted evo macos as new mac after installation, restored with Time Machine, opened mac terminal to enable cropping and set the following for hibernate/wait /hibernate/auto- off to 0, update setting oys power saving, tracked battery life is slightly lower on battery but speed is better so if that's not a problem for you, explain further in the formation below and sources: documented on the MacRumors forum website, Apple has no plans to update . This is a known issue when using NVMe SSDs with 2013 and 2014 MacBooks. The problem exists with any NVMe SSD, even Apple NVMe SSDs, even OWC Aura Pro 2, even Transcend 850 NVMe SSDs. This issue is related to the NVMe-DXE driver in the INDMEM-GLOBAL MacBook 2013-2014 boot directory. However, you can work around this problem by doing the following! This still allows for normal sleep but not deep hibernation. 1) Open Terminal (open the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder. Open the Terminal application). In a terminal, type the following code: sudo pmset hibernatemode 0 standby 0 Press Enter. If that doesn't work, also try the following: 2) Open a terminal (open the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder. Open the Terminal app). Enter the following code. in the terminal: sudo pmset autopoweroff 0 Press Enter (Return). iMac crashes when waking from sleep and restarts by itself. Pre-2017 iMacs experience hard drive power status issues after updating a blade SSD with a non-Apple NVMe. Late 2013/Late 2014/Mid 2015 iMacs crash upon waking from sleep and automatically restart with two beeps. A Late 2015 iMac will either "reboot because of a problem" or show a folder with a question mark icon (depending on the system event triggered). The only way to prevent your iMac from crashing is to type the following command in Terminal: (Open the Applications folder, then the Utilities folder. Open the Terminal app). 25 standby 0For iMac late 2013 to mid 2015 (disable hibernation) -> sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0 standby 0 autopoweroff 0 (for late 2013, late 2014, mid 2015, mid 2015 you can alternatively leave standby at 1 instead of standby 0 and use it E.g. standbydelayhigh 2592000, which is one month in seconds)

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