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rying to upgrade the blade SSD with Samsung 1TB m.2 2280 type SSD with the Apple connector adaptor, however, heard that the M.2 typed ssd needs to be setup first (with enclosure) before physically installing on logic board in iMac, otherwise, it won’t be recognized at all. So, just checking is this really necessary? If it is the case, is there any particular reason why it won’t be recognized initially? Any one has experience on this in the past?Thanks,
What is your current drive? If you have a HDD then All you need is to upgrade the OS to at least High Sierra (10.13.x) first as the systems firmware needs an update. You’ll want to create a bootable OS installer USB Thumb drive in any case and use it to information and install the OS onto the SSD drive. Frankly, I don’t recommend using M.2 SSD’s in iMac’s given how hard it is to get to it and that don’t last very long. More so if you are into anything with heavy graphics.
