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The SSDs in these machines consist of NAND chips soldered directly to the motherboard; the controller aspect is handled within the main M* SOC. As such there's
by PBondurant 4y ago
The SSDs in these machines consist of NAND chips soldered directly to the motherboard; the controller aspect is handled within the main M* SOC. As such there's no way that a company could offer an internal 'upgrade' or expansion to these drives.
- operatingthetan 4y agoI think I was getting the config of the Mac Studio confused with the MBP.
- metadat 4y agoI thought these are soldered together as well? Am I mistaken?
- operatingthetan 4y agohttps://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac-studio/mac-studio-faq/how-to-replace-upgrade-mac-studio-internal-ssd-storage.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac-studio/mac-studio-faq...
- zitterbewegung 4y agoThis is not true . The SSDs on this are not soldiered but are in distinct chips that can be removed but none of them have a discrete controller on them instead the controller is on the SoC itself. Basically they are NAND modules not full SSDs at all.
- Scaevolus 4y agoThe NAND chips are soldered with ball grid arrays, requiring a reflow oven to add a new chip, not to mention how the board itself would probably not even detect the extra chips. Here's an M2 Air logic board with 1 of 2 NAND chips soldered on (in yellow), there's an empty spot on the board for another chip: https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/1A2NHYEY6dJcUcd4.huge https://guide-images.cdn.ifixit.com/igi/1A2NHYEY6dJcUcd4.hug...
- wil421 4y agoChallenge accepted. Here’s an M1 being upgraded with both RAM and Storage by some Chinese Techs. Yes, you need an oven. https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/m1-mac-ram-and-ssd-upgrades-possible/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/m1-mac-ram-and-ssd-upgr...