Ensure NVMe Compatibility with MacBook Air SSD Replacement

Introduzione

This guide will help guide you to an NVMe drive that will work in your MacBook Air.

Green indicates no issues

Yellow indicates you may have kernel Panic issues on wake from hibernation

Red indicates no workable option available using non apple pin formatted drives

MacBook Air Late 2010 - Working - High Sierra, Catalina, M2 Samsung Evo 860, Adapter
MacBook Air 2011 - Working - High Sierra, M.2 Transcend MTS830S SATA III, Long Adapter.
MacBook Air 2012 - Working - Catalina, M.2 Transcend MTS830S SATA III, Long Adapter.
MacBook Air 2013 - Unknown
MacBook Air 2014 - WD_black 500 + Sintech adapter, running MacOS Big Sur
MacBook Air Early 2015 - WORKING- Mojave 10.14.3 to Big Sur 11.0.1- Crucial P1 SSD NVME, Adapter.
MacBook Air 2017 - WORKING - High Sierra, Catalina and Big Sur, Monterey - Transcend MTE250S PCIe 4.0 4x NVMe, Long Adapter + Kapton Tape. / Transcend MTE260S PCie 5.0 (Testing, SSD works fine in Monterey 12.7.6 Blackmagic and AJA System Lite Disk Speed generate read errors. Employ only Amorphous Disk Test to Benchmark this PCIe 5.0 SSD.)
MacBook Air 2018 and forward - will not work, No removable drive