Unlike many here who have their own shop, I was a contract worker jumping around larger corporate customers configuring & fixing their equipment.
Apple’s move to system’s without USB-A ports forced a few of my customers to walk away from Apple gear as they were dependent on cypher keys which need to be directly attached to the system, not via a dongle or hub device which could be altered unbeknownst to the user (man in the middle attack risk). For my other big customers the lack of the ability to memorialize a systems drive or remove it so it could be destroyed was the other downfall for Apple.
So I’ve been working out of my home fixing systems as I could over the last few years.
Well, its finally happened! I’ve, fixed my last system for now. My arthritis has finally made it too hard to do much of anything delicate in the cold weather. Maybe in the late spring I’ll give it ago again.
I’m still helping people keep their systems running as long as they can be here on iFixit!
I’ve put in a ton of SSD’s none have failed because of being placed behind the optical drive and the GPU in this series often fails! With or without a SSD placed behind the optical drive. My own 2011 27” system has gone through four GPU boards and it doesn’t have the SSD mounted behind the optical drive. The HDD and the GPU each have dedicated fans.
The root issue is we push the graphics too hard playing heavy games and/or doing image or video work on this series. Apple (AMD) didn’t realize the speed apps would progress using more power than they anticipated during the design process.
Thats not true, the air flow is from the bottom to the top not from the side.
Ah! You need a bit of heat and/or solvent to loosen the sealed screw.
There is no tool kit that offers all of the needed tools. You’ll need to get the listed tools within the Tools listing at the top.
No, you can’t replace the connector, you can get an adapter which will allow the drive to connect to your USB-C Mac.
There is really nothing you can fix within the coils, beyond that you need the schematic and boardview of the part which are not available.
@jeffsu - Can make note of that above as that’s an important detail
PS: Are those two circles in the middle coin cell batteries? - Yep! for the NVRAM
People often confuse the systems! The early 2013 don’t have the connector the late models do!
First make sure yours has the connector! Only the systems sold as a SSD or Fusion Drive have the custom Apple SSD connector. It sounds like yours doesn’t have it.
As far as drives I really don’t recommend using M.2 SSD’s in Mac’s. I had wished Apple would had embraced the M.2 standard, they didn’t! While it is possible to install via an adapter an M.2 SSD Apple has a few extra lines which they use for sleep and garbage collection functions which is where the M.2 SSD’s fail. I’ve pulled out quite a few putting in either the Apple or OWC SSD’s as being the better solution from the start.
As far as which port drive would I use the PCIe/NVMe interface is a lot fosters such it would be better as the Boot drive (OS & Apps). This allows cache and virtual RAM to use the faster drive and lastly if you are using Windows Paging. Depending on the apps you are working with some use a scratch space which by default will be on the boot drive.
You do want a drive thats big enough to hold your OS & apps and still leave at least 1/4 of the drive unused! If you are doing big projects then more.
So the SATA drive is only used for holding the bulk data
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