![]() WD Black SN 770 is PCIE 4.0 so you will pay for speed you cannot use. Most trouble free NVME choices for PCIE 3.0 (that I am aware of) are Intel 670p, WD Black SN750, Sabrent Rocket. Your described usage is no great load so thermals would be no challenge to the blade.Ĥ. From what others say in this forum you have space for 3mm thick heatsink. WD Black runs hot under load and heat sink is recommended. See remarks by rxs0 on page 1 of this thread regarding 2017 mac.ģ. However, installing o/s on blade via via Command R to external enclosure is favoured to anticipate any difficulty with iMac reading blade. If Crucial P3 is up to date out of the box, your procedure should work. Also check blade fully inserted into adapter. Also check to see if firmware update for the drive is needed. If you have not already done so, check that Disk Utility is ticked to show all drives. ![]() The workflow on this Mac is mostly office use, no video and only little photo editing.Ĭlick to expand.I have not used a Crucial NVME but wish to offer a possibly some useful comment:ġ. Should I install a heatsink on the WD Black and is there enough room for something like this with a thickness of 1cm? Would this be the right procedure, or do you have to connect the new blade to an external enclosure first to prepare it? My procedure is to install the blade SSD right out of the box, then booting holding option and install the OS from a USB-stick with Ventura installer that I have. I am avoiding Samsung as I have read a lot of issues here with Trim. ![]() I am considering sending the crucial back and buying a WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 2TB instead, as this has recently shown a successful install with. The adapter has been used by other users successfully so I think this should not be the issue. I discovered this forum only afterwards and see that a Crucial P3 has never been reported in any swap by anybody for this iMac. In system Information, nothing is showing under NVMExpress, also in Disk Utility, the blade doesn't show. The Crucial P3 blade is not detected by the system. Temperature sensor: OWC In-line Digital Thermal Sensor HDD upgrade: 1 TB SATA HDD -> Crucial BX500īlade upgrade: 32 GB Apple Blade - > Crucial P3 2TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe ![]()
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