Instead get a Western Digital Black SN750. Note: Do not get a Samsung Evo Pro 970 as this is currently causing problems with the Mac. If so, I suggest you purchase your SSD from a reputable retailer. I would check out the following instructions provided by Apple to determine your happy to proceed. If youre wanting to replace the internal drives your options will be limited.

You could then buy a new standard NVMe M2 SSD and use the above Sintech adapter to let it be fitted in to Apple's proprietary socket. These particular Mac Pros use an Apple designed PCIe 2.0 x4 interface. This is done by first installing Mojave on a current internal or external drive and during the Mojave installation it will if needed update the firmware as well. You would first need to ensure your Mac has the correct firmware before trying to fit one of these SSD cards. This is important because the older AHCI SSD drives are becoming rarer as all current computers - including Macs now use NVMe SSD drives. See - įurthermore whilst originally the Mac Pro 2013 only supported AHCI style SSD drives Apple included in a firmware upgrade the ability to also use NVMe style SSD drives. However there is now on the market an adapter to allow you to fit standard M2 SSDs in to Apple's proprietary socket. OWC do make an SSD with the same proprietary Apple connector meaning it will fit with no extra effort. This in turn means that if you ask Apple they will probably tell you you need to get a replacement part from Apple. This means a standard M2 SSD will not fit. The Mac Pro 2013 like other Mac models of that era uses a PCIe SSD with a proprietary (Apple) version of the standard M2 connector.

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