Will SSD M2 fit on my MacBook?

Great! Thanks for the answer

What about an M2 to SATA enclosure converter? A company named Sabrent appears to offer this?

https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-...

FAQ says no go, Reviews say "macbook 2012 =yes". Does the macbookpro 9.1 have problems received M2 data through a SATA converting enclosure?

Sorry for my hard drive ignorance.

@forhereyesonly - Ah! The misunderstanding of M.2 interface!

Think of it this way… I have a one inch pipe what can I run down it? Water, Gas or just Air. The pipe is nothing more that a means to move what I need to move.

This is also the case of the M.2 standard, just an interface. It offers a collection of pins as well as a key way to make sure the correct device is connected.

So here we have a SATA based system so only a SATA storage device can be used. The other issue here is Apple is not using an M.2 interface! They did their own thing, and to add to it they too offered between the different series SATA as well as PCIe/NVMe connections and no you can’t use the wrong blade drive nor the wrong interfaced either.

So, this system is using a variation of SATA, where as the late 2013 MacBook Pro is the first series to use PCIe/NVMe interface with Apple’s custom connector.

As far as using any connector adapter you introduce risks as well as compatibility issues. I strongly recommend sticking with a drive which has the proper interface and not try any adapter as I’ve seen people get very angry when I tell them there data is lost never to be recovered.

@danj

Hello Dan, thanks for the rapid response.

Q1: Does this analogy work as well. The M2 is a language (interface) that can pass through the SATA III connector (your pipe) but cannot be understood by a Macbook that was build on a SATA III language?

You can note in this MacbookPro A1278 hack that users pass through the Thunderbolt and solder on a NVMe SSD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvrygDOf...

If its a question of language, here appears to be a proof that Macbooks (2012 Unibody) and maybe earlier can understand something different than the standard SATA III they were designed to be used on. For example M2 or NVMe (not sure if those are the same).

Q2: I understand that this specific macbook does not have M2 interface but doesn't the enclosure from Sabrent fix this? (Converting M2 to SATA III)

Any additional thoughts on this will help me understand. Thanks again.

@forhereyesonly - Q1 - M.2 is strictly a ‘Pipe’ here. The dialog is the language and depending on the given M.2 it could be SATA across both the M.2 connection as well as like the original SATA interface the 2012 & older Unibodies have. SATA is both a physical as well as dialog which can confuse.

The point you had in your head was a PCIe/NVMe M.2 could connect into a SATA based system. Think of the pipe again so I can connect natural gas into the communities water line and that would work ?? Of course not!

Q2 - Back to that pipe again… so, I can use an adapter to connect that one inch pipe to a half inch right?? That changes the water to gas?? All it did was change the pipes diameter or in our case the physical connection.

What you are thinking this is a converter which converts the dialog from PCIe/NVMe the Blade SSD has to SATA which it can’t. There is no benefit in its use, putting a PCIe/NVMe drive in a SATA based system. This is an older SATA based M.2 option to fit into a original SATA based system. But it’s not any faster then SATA 6.0 Gbps and not cheaper than the older 2.5” SATA drives.