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I presume you have a MacBook (Pro), is that correct? OWC products are designed for Macs.
It's right there at the top of the page. Macs or PCs. I use them in Macs. You format it for whatever you want to use it in. If you wanted to try one, and it doesn't work for you, you can return it for a 15% restocking fee.
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I buy whichever SSD is on sale at CostCo, Amazon, and so on. But is seems that SanDisk and Samsung are the most common at the stores I visit. I also buy hard drives whenever I see them on the shelves.
Earlier this year, I upgraded my 2016 MacBook Air from a 128 GB SSD to a 2 TB SSD (did the installation and everything else myself), and the 2 TB SSD I used was the Samsung 970 EVO Plus.
No issues so far .
I also found a microSD to SD sideways adapter that BaseQi makes* for Macs that allows for a 'flush fit'.
For internal SSDs, SanDisk is considered a "value" brand for WD, commonly sold at warehouse clubs such as Costco. The WD Black series are considered their flagship high performance drives.
I would like to know, what brand of SSD do you typically buy for your computers?
I bought two SK Hynix Gold P31 SSDs for my laptop and desktop, and also recommended it to my neighbor for his desktop and he bought one for himself. In the case of laptops, I was told it has one of the best power to watt ratios.
I have bought portable drives, not sure that they are SSDs though. Seagate and Western Digital are all I have ever bought.
I originally bought Crucial for my MacBook Air (it was cheaper, and friends have had good luck with both Crucial and Samsung), taking a chance as it was unclear (per my research) if the particular Crucial I bought at Micro Center would work in that particular application. It didn't....nothing against Crucial nor Apple, just in that particular application with that particular drive, it didn't happen to work. From research, I knew the Samsung model would work, and obviously what would work for that particular application was more important than saving money. When I did the exchange, I was actually one day past the exchange period, so props to Micro Center for letting me do that. And the Samsung happened to be on sale the day I did the exchange, so it was just a wee bit more.
I originally bought Crucial for my MacBook Air (it was cheaper, and friends have had good luck with both Crucial and Samsung), taking a chance as it was unclear (per my research) if the particular Crucial I bought at Micro Center would work in that particular application. It didn't....nothing against Crucial nor Apple, just in that particular application with that particular drive, it didn't happen to work. From research, I knew the Samsung model would work, and obviously what would work for that particular application was more important than saving money. When I did the exchange, I was actually one day past the exchange period, so props to Micro Center for letting me do that. And the Samsung happened to be on sale the day I did the exchange, so it was just a wee bit more.
A hard drive or SSD is just a storage device. I don't see one of the other as failing to work with the application, unless the app requires a certain amount of space and speed from the drive, or app/drive incompatibility. While drives usually come formatted for both PC and Mac, I reformat (erase, partition, and so on) according the computer platform I plan to use it with. But I usually have several drives and thumb drives that are formatted to work just fine with both the Mac and PC. Also, the drive package's label shows the specific PC or Mac operating systems and version the drive works with.
A hard drive or SSD is just a storage device. I don't see one of the other as failing to work with the application, unless the app requires a certain amount of space and speed from the drive, or app/drive incompatibility. While drives usually come formatted for both PC and Mac, I reformat (erase, partition, and so on) according the computer platform I plan to use it with. But I usually have several drives and thumb drives that are formatted to work just fine with both the Mac and PC. Also, the drive package's label shows the specific PC or Mac operating systems and version the drive works with.
Sometimes, an OS may have some compatibility issues with the drive's controller. I did read at first that the SK Hynix Gold P31 M.2 NVMe SSD initially had compatibility issues with Mac OS; I think this was fixed with a firmware update.
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