OWC 1TB Aura Pro 6G 3D NAND Flash SSD w/Envoy Pro Enclosure Compatible with 2012 to Early 2013 MacBook Pro with Retina Display

Works well in my MacBook Pro

Drive was easy to install in a 2012 MacBook Pro. So far it has been working like a champ and gave me the extra hard drive space I needed. This should extend the use of this MacBook for a couple more years. So far Im very pleased.

Easy to install and configure.

Works great only thing is that you can’t use the accessory cable and HDD box to boot your new drive up. Other than that it’s the perfect way to repurpose your old drive and gain some serious space on your main drive.

Was fairly easy to install worked great.

My first drive stop mounting in the first week. I got a replacement drive and it would either not mount or gives me the spin wheel and froze the whole system every other day that I had to restart my computer, basically making my Mac unusable after install the hard drive. Unfortunately I can no longer return the drive or I would. So I basically just waste my money on a piece of junk. I just ended up using the original ssd that came with my computer..

I have a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. For several years, Ive been frustrated because it only had a 250GB hard drive and I was getting tired of running out of space. I was all set to purchase a new MacBook for $3,000, but decided to buy this hard drive upgrade instead. I watched the sellers video about installation and it was quite easy. Now, my MB Pro boots up faster and I dont worry so much about storage. CAUTION: make sure you put the screws on the back of the laptop into the same holes they were originally in; they are different lengths.

Systems hangs on 7 out of 10 times the drive is accessed. On 50% of those times, the only thing that will bring back the drive is a reboot. Buy only if you like staring at a spinning circle.

Unlike some other machine, a seven year old Macbook Pro can still be pretty viable. I was fine with the machine, but bumping into storage limits. Mine was the last model before they went to NVM drives, but upgrading the storage was still way cheaper than replacing the system. I wish this product was more competitively priced, but its one of the few that handles power management correctly so I was OK spending a premium to keep my (formerly premium) system working well on battery. The upgrade itself is super easy. The tools are included and videos make it comfortable. Once the bottom is off, theres literally one screw to the upgrade itself. I went with the version that included the external case out of laziness. I could have made a(nother) time machine backup and wrestled with restoring that over WiFi, but putting the old drive in the external case and booting into System Recovery to copy the drive and I moved all 128GB in probably ten minutes or so. I didnt have to manually mess with partition tables or otherwise think about it too much. The upgrade was easy and the result is flawless. I now have an external SSD thats handy for moving projects to and from client machines.

Installation was a breeze and I really appreciate having a an external enclosure for the old SSD.