However there is now on the market an adapter to allow you to fit standard M2 SSDs in to Apple's proprietary socket. OWC do make an SSD with the same proprietary Apple connector meaning it will fit with no extra effort. This in turn means that if you ask Apple they will probably tell you you need to get a replacement part from Apple. This means a standard M2 SSD will not fit. The Mac Pro 2013 like other Mac models of that era uses a PCIe SSD with a proprietary (Apple) version of the standard M2 connector. If anyone does share these issues please share. boot via any macos USB installer, wipe the drive clean, reinstall high sierra and migrate via timemachine.ĭo I really have to upgrade to Mojave? I'm still hesitant as I am aware that all Geforce M drivers are not yet working or supported under Mojave. Should I have to start over from scratch? Eg. I thought I could live it with it and ignored it way back as my best guess in very late 2019.ĭoes anyone else experiencing these same issue or pattern since last year? My hunch tells me it is a software issue, as I noticed the very first sign of slowing down was as soon as I installed a series of important security updates. The snappiness of that SSD magic everyone's familiar fades away. Although I am noticing that after doing these I am noticing an EVEN SLOWER bootup sequence - to the point whereby it takes up to TWO minutes to get that loading bar to finish to the login screen.īeachballings and slowdowns also appearing more frequently. SMC resets and NVRAM resets multiple times does absolutely nothing. My hunch tells me that this may be a confounder but switching back and forth to the old battery to me does not seem to correlate as both battery seems slow. I recently also had to buy new battery replacement from CoconutBattery app's warning. Malware bytes reported nothing of ordinary. So I tried force enabling it and still not a difference, in fact I am noticing things are slower.įirst Aid on disk utility reports that the drive 'appears to be ok'. Although can anyone confirm if the Amorphous Diskmark report is normal for an SSD?Įven though I absolutely swore I turned on TRIM ever since years ago when I initially bought the SSD via separate app.interestingly only yesterday I noticed that under System Report it shows TRIM support says 'NO'. Even on 1TB SSD.ĭrivedx reports as 100% health on the SSD. Is it Security updates? Since the very late of 2019 to this day of having installed series of security updates I am experiencing slower and slower overall Macbook Pro mid 2012.

Macbook pro mid 2012, getting slower and slower on bootups on 1 TB SSD on high sierra.

Ssd for late 2013 macbook pro