Why OWC Aura Pro X2 NOT COMPATIBLE iMac17,1?
Hello, decided to put in your iMac 27 "(iMac17,1 EMC 2834) late 2015 NVMe ssd
Studying the question read https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprie...
I liked the option Aura Pro X2, and here at the forum it was offered, but the manufacturer's website indicates that it is this late 2015 model that is not supported (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/S3DA...)
Perhaps who knows about why 2013, 2014, 2015 (May), 2017 supported, but 2015 late NOT COMPATIBLE ? as far as I understand it Gen. 5B SSDs continue to use the 12+16 Pin ?
I found and read a lot of articles / stories about how they put an SSD on this iMac through “Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME SSD Adapter Card” (https://www.macworld.com/article/3386117...)
Well, in general, it is clear that it works well PCIe 3.0 x4, but Aura Pro X2 will not work at all or is there a problem such as bootcump not working or hibernation, sleep?
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As far as the MacWorld write-up: On putting in an M.2 SSD into iMac's, Go for it if you feel so confident on what they wrote.
My clients today tend to be heavy users, Video and Music production either as a profession or as students. Before I went on my own, I worked at some large engineering firms supporting their Mac systems.
We where lucky to get some top notch engineering talent to help us review M.2 drives for MacBook Pro's. At the time Apple was not selling large SSD's (1 & 2 TB drives) which a lot of our staff needed.
Our testing at that time showed the adapters where not very good and even still today I've encountered a few systems which I needed to yank them to get the system to be functional.
To be clear! I'm not a hater of M.2 drives. If the systems interface is designed to support them use them! It's when you force fit a drive which was not designed to work in the system by the system maker is the root issue.
- de Dan
Thanks for all of the answers!!!
I have iMac 2015 and I’m already mentally ready to buy a new 2020.
But I decided to try to give this system a 2nd chance for another 1/2 year (then I will still change it)
Scalped my i7-6700K, planted it on liquid metal, removed some of the throttling,
The SSD (I have a SATA SSD in the system now) If there is such an opportunity to put NVMe blade SSD I would like to.
I’m from Russia and our purchase of the original Apple SSD does not cost $620 like you it costs us $800/900, which is quite a bit of unreal money for an upgrade for a couple of years.
Therefore, I was so interested in OWC Aura Pro X2, I asked them there, without explanation, there is simply no support, so I created a topic, maybe there is a person who knows.
Thanks again, 90% of the links on this topic I found on your forum!
- de Aleksandr