Timeline for Upgrading to High Sierra or newer on 2013 MacBook Air with external SSD and missing OEM internal SSD
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| Feb 7, 2019 at 14:08 | comment | added | benwiggy | The general solution for drives other than OWC is to install an Apple OEM module. | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 13:59 | comment | added | hippietrail | Yes I've been doing a ton of Googling myself. It seems OWC now has a solution that lets you use their SSDs without the OEM storage drive. But I have not seen any more general solution for drives other than OWC. Still looking ... | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 13:52 | comment | added | benwiggy | @hippietrail I've revised my answer after a bit of googling. | |
| Feb 7, 2019 at 13:48 | history | edited | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 6, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | benwiggy |
There may be local ones selling. It's something to think about, rather than lugging an external around, which might get disconnected in the middle of something. Anyway, back to the current problem. Can you give us the output of the following terminal command: diskutil list This might reveal some issue on your drive that may be fixable.
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| Feb 6, 2019 at 16:40 | comment | added | hippietrail | Well I'm still looking out of interest, but I'd prefer to get my existing hardware working really. Also I'm not in the US so shipping costs. So far cheapest is about $100 + shipping. | |
| Feb 6, 2019 at 16:36 | comment | added | benwiggy | A quick search of ebay.com shows OEM Apple 128 - 512 Gb parts between $32 and $150. | |
| Feb 6, 2019 at 16:32 | comment | added | hippietrail | The SSDs seem to be extremely expensive when I've looked and also hard to find genuine ones because of so many third party upgrade ones being sold. | |
| Feb 6, 2019 at 16:30 | history | answered | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |