It once again takes about ~15 minutes before the fan reaches 7200 rpm. Thanks to the reduced processor clock, the temperature situation is more relaxed and we can only measure 31.5 dB(A) at first. The situation in our stress test with the tools Prime95 and FurMark is similar to Unigine Valley. The fastest method to reach the maximum fan speed is Prime95.
This is followed by jumps to ~4100 rpm, ~4900 rpm, and ~5800 rpm before we reach the full 7200 rpm after a total of 16 minutes.ģDMark 06 on Windows results in 32.9 dB(A) and 5200 rpm on average. It is basically not audible at ~30.6 dB(A) (3400-4600 rpm) in the first 5 minutes. More GPU demanding applications like Unigine Valley take more time to activate the fan. The second run results in the maximum fan speed of 7200 rpm at 39.3 dB(A). You cannot hear the fan for the first ~30 seconds, but the speed will increase to around 6000 rpm and 35 dB(A) until the end of the run. We use the Cinebench R15 Multi test running on macOS. The fan control is seamless, so the results are average values. You can see that the fan quickly reaches its maximum speed of 7200 rpm when you stress the CPU in particular. We will have a look at some scenarios below and start with macOS. However, the fan is only audible at ~2300 rpm in very quiet environments. The fan is even completely deactivated in macOS, while it is always spinning with at least 1200 rpm on Windows (Bootcamp) – independent of the power profile. The good news is that the fan is not audible under light workloads or short peak load (up to ~30 seconds), respectively. However, the high-pitched sound characteristic stays, which is why the fan is not very pleasant under load.
There are many customers can use it, so we suggest you to try it again if your for MAC can't detect nVME SSD.One big problem of our previous test model was the rattling fan, but our current model does not have any problems so far. Please insert our adapter fully into SSD slot and you must prepare bootable USB disk(see third point) with High Sierra to format M.2 SSD first, it can't support recover from internet.ģ. Have to turn off laptop all the time instead of close the lid and go.Ģ. You are kindly reminded that for macOS failed on resume from hibernating with some NVME SSDs of some brands.
Finally, once it's up you can now go to the disk utils to format and install the for MAC OS.ġ. Insert the Installer USB stick from step 2, and press the option key while the machine starts.ħ. Reconnect the battery before closing the shell.Ħ. Open the for macbook and disconnect the battery while switching out the drive and make sure both adapter and new SSD sit snug.ĥ. Create a High Sierra Installer on a bootable USB stick.Ĥ. For your old driver, please do a full backup via Time Machine.ģ. Make sure to install the High Sierra on your old drive, so that a newer firmware is installed that can handle NVME.Ģ.
It can't support recovering from internet, important to prepare bootable USB disk driver(M.2 PCIe has no OS systerm inside,it must be erased first).ġ.
Support M.2 NVME/AHCI SSD such as for Samsung 960 EVO, for Samsung 970 EVO/PRO (Not support for 960 EVO Plus), for WD Black, for Crucial P1, for HP EX920, for ADATA SX8200, for Intel 600p series NVME SSD and so on. Please use your original SSD to upgrades your for macOS before installation. Requires for macOS 10.13 High Sierra or Later DO NOT compatible with earlier than for macOS 10.13 versions.
This M.2 PCIe nVME SSD convert adapter allows to upgrade SSD for MacBook 2013-2015 with large capacity NVME SSD.