Unlike many here who have their own shop, I was a contract worker jumping around larger corporate customers configuring & fixing their equipment.
Apple’s move to system’s without USB-A ports forced a few of my customers to walk away from Apple gear as they were dependent on cypher keys which need to be directly attached to the system, not via a dongle or hub device which could be altered unbeknownst to the user (man in the middle attack risk). For my other big customers the lack of the ability to memorialize a systems drive or remove it so it could be destroyed was the other downfall for Apple.
So I’ve been working out of my home fixing systems as I could over the last few years.
Well, its finally happened! I’ve, fixed my last system for now. My arthritis has finally made it too hard to do much of anything delicate in the cold weather. Maybe in the late spring I’ll give it ago again.
I’m still helping people keep their systems running as long as they can be here on iFixit!
Thats right! You don't want power running while working on your logic board.
Here's a great reference The Ultimate Guide to Apple’s Proprietary SSDs
Your system offers a NVMe/PCIe 3.0 x4 interface so any of the 5th generation Apple blade SSD's will work as well as the OWC Aura Pro X2 SSD
Yes, just get an external HDD case which can hold your drive and make sure the port connection if offers works with your new system. Many offer USB-A connections which then can via an adapter can connect to a USB-C port.
Yes, that is needed as the HD has the expectation the caching SSD is present. Different versions of macOS use different methods. The newer OS's require reformatting the HD, so you'll need to back up any data first.
Just use a USB-A to USB-C adapter, don't hardwire the drive.
Sorry, you can’t ;-{
Apple doesn’t offer it as a replaceable part. Apples direction on many parts spares is focused at an assembly level. So here the full display assembly would need to be replaced. Some people have managed to find a broken system to salvage a needed part vs replacing the full assembly. The rubber gasket is especially hard to even get out without damaging things.
This is a bit of a grey space.
Clearly you don’t need the cable if you are replacing the HDD or switching it out of a SSD. Its only when you are enhancing your system by adding a drive which you didn’t have before.
Yes! Your system has two drive ports, either replacing the SATA HDD for a SSD or you could add in a PCIe/NVMe blade drive which offers even more performance. Adding the blade SSD allows you to gain a dual drive setup. What gets people confused is the Fusion Drive setups, while it is also using a small blade SSD, this setup us using the SSD as a cache drive not a straight drive! Here we are using a large drive and setting it up as the masOS boot drive and only using the HDD for your data drive!
SATA connections are star wired unlike PATA which is chained. Basically one drive should effect the other, the only exception is a some sort of Malware which is designed to destroy your data.
To many differences between the screen and the sensor plate.
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