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Hi, A friend of mine asked me, if a MacBook compatible SSD device can be used on any Windows laptop by using a converter. His current device has a mSATA interface only, not a m.2 compatible one. We found a converter from Sintech (http://www.pc-adapter.net/product/836.ht...), which can be used on a m.2 compatible motherboard. He has a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H motherboard (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-...). He has a Samsung branded MacBook compatible SSD, which is used on a MacBook Pro 13” Retina Early 2015 version. Exact version information of this disk is currently not available. We may provide it later. Any solutions? Thank you…
That adapter will make the SSD work in a PC, but it never ends well going the other way and usually results in a massive performance penalty. You probably aren’t going to fare any better going the other way. Yes, the adapter will “work”, but there is a high likelyhood there will also be an associated performance penalty. You will also need an interposer since the Gigabyte board you have now doesn’t have a native slot. These nonstandard SSD’s are intended for Apple computers. It’ll work on a normal computer with an adapter, but the historical make this a bad idea. Your best bet is to just get a standard AHCI PCIe SSD and an interposer, since your board lacks native connectors. If this doesn’t end well the other way, what makes you think this will be any better?
Hold on here! That still won’t work, as your motherboard does not have a M.2 interface only a mSATA. You’l need a PCIe card to host the Apple SSD and only the older SATA SSD will work Apple 2013-2015 MacBook Pro +Air SSD to PCI-e 1X Adapter
