06-20-2019, 10:18 PM
I bought 4 m.2 blade SSD adapters form Bezosville over the past 2 years or so and can confirm that all 4 have been great purchases. They are for the following Macs:
2011 MacBook Air— SATA, used a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO
2x 2013-2014 15" MacBook Pro— NVMe, used a 1TB HP EX920 and 500GB WD Black 720
2014 Mac Mini— NVMe, used the same 500GB WD Black 720 as above
The SATA one was about $15 and the others were about $20, all from Sintech. All work as advertised and enable the full potential of the SATA or NVMe lanes in their respective devices.
In fact the one currently in the Mini contains the NVMe drive and it's OS 10.13.6 and Bootcamp/Windows 10 v1803 which were originally installed in the 2013 15" MBPro. So the interoperability is the same as for regular Mac HDDs back in the day. Now what probably helped, mostly with the Windows install, is that both are Haswell-generation devices so the drivers are pretty much identical.
In any case I recommend these options as an alternative to paying an arm and a leg for Apple solutions, especially as you can mix and match your desired performance and SSD size. All 3 SSDs were the best performance/price at the time of purchase.
The biggest caveat to any of these is that the MBAir adapter was a bit too tall for my tiny 11" MBAir and it bowed the case out a bit, and the adapter and SSD in a bit. Perhaps it fits the 13" MBA better. After about 6 months I had a better use for the 850 EVO and reinstalled the OWC 120GB this machine had previously, and yes the 850 EVO was bent. A few days of R&R and it straightened out and seems none the worse for wear but some long-term damage was probably done. No problems yet though, as it's chugging along in a NUC sitting right under my desk here.
2011 MacBook Air— SATA, used a 250GB Samsung 850 EVO
2x 2013-2014 15" MacBook Pro— NVMe, used a 1TB HP EX920 and 500GB WD Black 720
2014 Mac Mini— NVMe, used the same 500GB WD Black 720 as above
The SATA one was about $15 and the others were about $20, all from Sintech. All work as advertised and enable the full potential of the SATA or NVMe lanes in their respective devices.
In fact the one currently in the Mini contains the NVMe drive and it's OS 10.13.6 and Bootcamp/Windows 10 v1803 which were originally installed in the 2013 15" MBPro. So the interoperability is the same as for regular Mac HDDs back in the day. Now what probably helped, mostly with the Windows install, is that both are Haswell-generation devices so the drivers are pretty much identical.
In any case I recommend these options as an alternative to paying an arm and a leg for Apple solutions, especially as you can mix and match your desired performance and SSD size. All 3 SSDs were the best performance/price at the time of purchase.
The biggest caveat to any of these is that the MBAir adapter was a bit too tall for my tiny 11" MBAir and it bowed the case out a bit, and the adapter and SSD in a bit. Perhaps it fits the 13" MBA better. After about 6 months I had a better use for the 850 EVO and reinstalled the OWC 120GB this machine had previously, and yes the 850 EVO was bent. A few days of R&R and it straightened out and seems none the worse for wear but some long-term damage was probably done. No problems yet though, as it's chugging along in a NUC sitting right under my desk here.