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I’ve been looking to upgrade my MacBook’s OEM hard drive, it came from Apple with 1tb 5400rpm drive. Ive been reading a lot about TRIM and how it is not native in any but Apples OEM PCIe hard drives. I wondered if this model’s logic board has that PCIe slot in order to use one of those SSD drives. Thanks for the help!
No, this system uses a custom cable harness to connect a standard 2.5" mSATA drive. I would strongly recommend swapping out your current HD for a SSHD unit vs a SSD. I don’t recommend installing a dual drive setup by taking out the optical drive as the optical drives SATA port is only SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) unlike the HD’s SATA port which is SATA III (6.0 Gb/s).
