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Yes you can. You need to use Configurator to do it. It has been confirmed by iFixit. It’s the same as the Mac Pro was: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210626
by uuyi 5y ago
Yes you can. You need to use Configurator to do it. It has been confirmed by iFixit. It’s the same as the Mac Pro was: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210626 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210626 . You can’t just swap a disk. You have to actually re-pair it with the crypto and then reprovision it and recovery etc.
Again Linus doesn’t know what he’s doing. Another influencer confirming my point.
This is not a PC. That’s where the assumption goes wrong.
- ChuckNorris89 5y agoYou're making a confusion between replacing and upgrading. He showed you CAN replace the SSD modules but only with identic size ones, but you CAN'T upgrade to bigger ones as that triggers the firmware lock. Watch the video he posted he tried what you mentioned.
- uuyi 5y agoYet. Also there’s some holes in the back you can upgrade your storage with…
- argsnd 5y agoLiterally nobody on YouTube, certainly not Linus, has attempted to upgrade the storage modules with a supported configuration that the machine is shipped from the factory with. There isn't a single other SSD controller on the market that knows how to work with arbitrary quantities of NAND flash chips because it's an unnecessary engineering challenge, I don't know why anybody thinks it's remotely reasonable to expect Apple's to be different.