Step 2: Double-click the Disk Utility icon in the following window. Step 3: With Disk Utility open, your drive appears under External located on the left. Click Erase, located on the app’s top
Then connect it directly to your new MBP when it arrives and hold down the key at boot up to select this drive to boot from. If your new Mac boots up successfully with this drive, then it should be "good to go" to replace the existing 2012 drive with it. View in context.
256GB is usually good if you can move unnecessary stuff to an external SSD/USB drive or to the cloud. This comes from someone who has a 128GB Macbook Air as well. If you wanna save your video files in your MacBook then choose 512 GB. 256GB fills up pretty quick if you keep doing video editing every few days.
Introduction. Go to step 1. Use this guide to upgrade or replace the solid-state drive in a MacBook Air 13” Early 2017. This MacBook Air uses a proprietary storage drive connector, and is therefore not compatible with common M.2 drives without the use of an adapter. Before you perform this repair, if at all possible, back up your existing SSD. But remember a few things: You might break the laptop if you are not experienced in opening it up. I would just recommend a USB SSD drive enclosure like this one (definitely not the best one but it works). Then transfer all the datas from the old SSD to the new one. Plus you can use the old SSD as an external storage. NVMe SSD compatibility? Connector adapter. At first for the connector, I often seen the Sintech adapter recommended to use the AHCI SSD above in a MacBook Air/Pro. The product page clearly stipules only compatible with a limited set of AHCI SSDs, but I do not see any reason for these "incompatibilities", as there is no other software/hardware standards for the PCIe M.2 AHCI models.SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD V2; Samsung T7 Portable SSD; You can’t really go wrong with either of these. Summary. If you have already invested in a base MacBook Air then you will be well served by any of these external options. If you are still considering whether the investment is worth it you should think about how you plan to use the storage.Mar 8, 2020. #6. De. Deliverat0r said: I upgraded my Macbook Pro (Retina, 15", mid 2015) with a 2TB Intel 660p M.2 nVME SSD and a Sintech NGFF M.2 nVME adapter. A High Sierra boot disk could not see the Intel SSD for partitioning, etc., but a Mojave boot disk had no trouble with it whatsoever. Why Can’t I Upgrade my MacBook Air SSD? Since 2018, Apple began to solder in the SSDs of all MacBook Air laptops, which makes upgrading the internal storage of these models impossible. Additionally, it is not possible to upgrade the RAM of any MacBook Air since the RAM of all models has been soldered directly on the board to make them thinner aRHJ.