M.2 SSD adapter for iMac

I would be against going that route, rather get an OWC storage device replacement or upgrade.
 
Sweevo said:
To be honest at under R600 for the SSD and adapter, I'm willing to take the risk. It arrived this week Monday / Tuesday from China alread.
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Cool beans, I'm not for knocking down others. Good luck, let me know how it goes. I've only used OWC for my clients Mac upgrades.
 
Sweevo said:
I hear you, I'd normally do the same but these things are stupid expensive and it's an older PC so I thought... nah!
Next step - to see the best way of doing the transfer. Is there a way to boot off USB and image / swap SSDs / redeploy the image?
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My first question is do you have a USB enclosure for the drive you're removing ?

You'll need an adapter for the original flash storage to USB to save time, otherwise you'll need to get a hard drive with no data and use Time Machine to make a backup first prior to performing the upgrade and subsequent restoration of data.

Theres a few ways. You could clone the drive, but I'd suggest you install a fresh copy of the OS on the new drive and then migrate the data using migration assistant.

I do that to eliminate any potential issues and lessen the variables during troubleshooting that could be related with drive later on. You don't want to clone the drive then pick up issues then go through the hassles of performing a clean install and migrating the data again.

I think you can also ask @bwana, he might be able to provide other solutions.
 
Sweevo said:
I hear you, I'd normally do the same but these things are stupid expensive and it's an older PC so I thought... nah!
Next step - to see the best way of doing the transfer. Is there a way to boot off USB and image / swap SSDs / redeploy the image?
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Command + R.

Use Disk Utility.

If the new drive is smaller migration assistant with a reinstall is an option.
 
Sweevo said:
It worked pretty seamlessly. Was an easy upgrade! I just backed up to the cloud, downloaded High Sierra and created a bootable install on usb flash, removed the old 64gb drive and installed new 256Gb drive then booted holding in control key to format the 256gb drive and install to it. I then installed apps from scratch and restored data from the cloud. Much better having a clean install IMO.

So far so good. R600 including shipping for the drive and adapter and delivery within 2 weeks from gearbest using the SA Express option!

@bwana
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It’s not Windows.

You don’t actually ever need a clean install. It’s a placebo effect.

I had one single install all the way from 10.3 through 10.9 across like five different Macs.

Never a day’s problems.
 
Sweevo said:
Before anyone rushes off to buy one of these for their machine, I've just had my first glitch with a boot failure this morning. It hasn't been used very much. I'm not sure what the issue is exactly, but it's at the point of having to reinstall. I've stuck the old SSD back in and it's back up again but now need to try get a bit of data off this 'new' drive. I can see the contents at the terminal so probably just need to mount and format a USB flash in recovery mode and copy the stuff across using terminal if I can see it that is....
I'm likely going to stick the SSD into my Windows PC and run diagnostics on it. At least with Windows I'm more at home troubleshooting and diagnosing issues. The mac is just giving me the white screen and apple logo. Bleah.
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Won’t be able to read anything in Windows.

Also you don’t need a USB flash. Recovery mode is right there with Command + R and you can clean install from there if you are internet connected.

Run a check of the drive with Disk Utility.

Also try just booting while holding Alt. Sometimes you just need to select it as the default and problem is solved.
 
Sweevo said:
You do need a clean install when all you have is a MacBook Air with a single M.2 slot. Not sure how else you’d approach it?
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Comment related to “much better having a clean install IMO” as if that made some special difference to how it runs.
 
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