Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by thelittleone on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:35PM
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I had mistakenly assumed my MBP 2015 SSD was removable / replaceable but turns out Apple started soldering the SSD to the motherboard and in doing so eliminated perhaps the most bulletproof disaster recovery strategies in the cosmos... a USB caddy. Instead they put a proprietary SSD access port on the logic board for accessing the SSD. And in the case of my dead 2015 MBP, that port was unable to access the SSD.
Bravo apple.
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by PascLeRasc on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @08:10AM
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The 2015 Macbook Pro? As in, it has Magsafe and Thunderbolt 2? You can indeed remove and replace the SSD, all you need is one of these adapters and then you can put in any M.2 NVMe you want. I'm using an Intel 660p in my '15 MBP, I can answer any questions you have about the upgrade process.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-201...
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by thelittleone on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @07:22PM
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My apologies. That was meant to be 2016 when touchbar was released.
I had the previous gen with removable SSD and did use a caddy for that when it’s logic board died.
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by phs318u on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:16AM
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Wow. It must be the time of year. My MBA13's SSD also died a few weeks ago. I just ordered an OWC replacement (and battery too). However, I'm only going to restore macOS long enough to move my TimeMachine backup (/home only) into something readable by Linux. Catalina was the last straw for me. At the moment I'm writing this having installed UbuntuStudio on the SDXC card. The drive is deathly slow compared to SSD but it's working.
EDITED to add: I'm doing some homework to identify my next laptop. It won't be an Apple. Ideally something with an aluminium chassis, 13" screen, 32GB RAM, and 512GB SSD. i7 or AMD equivalent. Suggestions welcome!
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by willtim on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @02:51AM
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Why specify aluminium? For example, Magnesium alloy is 30% lighter and less prone to warps and dents. For Linux, I would consider a ThinkPad (T or X series) or a Dell XPS developer edition.
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by phs318u on Friday May 01, 2020 @04:38AM
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Aluminium was my lazy way of saying non-plastic. I’d rather it dint than crack.
Thanks for the tips.
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by therealmarv on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @11:20AM
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Razer Blade Stealth 13" 2020 or the newest Dell XPS 13" (but that is not aluminium).
Re:Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD
by TENACIOUSANT on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @09:17PM
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CCC absolute lifesaver and worth the money every time
Kudos to the software Carbon Copy Cloner. Everything is as before and lost only 4 weeks of data because of an old image (but that's okay, not super important).
Lessons learned:
- Test your backup strategy and your backups !!
- External APFS or HFS drives cannot be read by Linux (especially if encrypted with FileVault). Maybe I will switch to Veracrypt + NTFS (or FAT32) for external drives in the long-run.
- Restoring in recovery mode from a sparseimage did not worked out. A real 1:1 copy on an external drive is better and immediately bootable.
- Installing macOS Mojave on a bigger USB stick is slooow (3 hours?), the same goes for booting, but it seemed the only option for me to use Carbon Copy Cloner to restore to the internal ssd.
- Do more regular backups
- Maybe monitoring the internal SSDs health in future? The software drivedx looks interesting.
- side note on Linux: pinch and zoom gesture on trackpads is totally non existent on Linux desktop (even Windows is better with this). There are not even interfaces for it as far as I've seen.