As I've gotten older, and am not having to pinch pennies quite as badly, I just buy Apple expansion hardware from the places that specialize in it. I was refur

As I've gotten older, and am not having to pinch pennies quite as badly, I just buy Apple expansion hardware from the places that specialize in it. I was refurbing one MacBook Pro of some era (2012 maybe?), and it simply would not play nice with an ADATA SSD (recognized it, but data transfers were so slow the OS wouldn't install - known issue, apparently). I saved a bit compared to the OWC option, except I wasted an afternoon of messing around and had to buy the OWC option after all.