With the Apple drive installed, the machine would sleep in my backpack over the weekend or longer without any significant onboard heat being generated, and stay that way without significantly depleting the battery. So currently there is no improvement on this problem.Īgain today I had a chat with the support team, and the most recent quote from the OWC support person is that the 3 of us in our department which have the same problem should all get our batteries replaced.įrom what I'm seeing, my battery life is just fine, so this does not seem to be a fix for the actual problem. I did both as instructed, then left the machine sleeping with battery power only for the night, and it showed a decrease to 53% battery life overnight. Day before yesterday they recommended the PRAM and SMC reset. I have been in contact with OWC/MacSales support again several times on this issue. (I have not heard back from OWC after contacting them a couple weeks ago.) I was aware of the decrease in battery life that some Aura Pro SSD customers reported, but I was not expecting this.
#Ssd for macbook pro retina mid 2015 install#
I did a clean install on the new SSD (No Time Machine backup), and I have tried doing an SMC and NVRAM/PRAM reset without any luck. I'm pretty certain this red light was not visible before the upgrade, I even checked with a friend's same model Macbook Pro and we could not see any lights coming through the air vents.
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More recently I noticed it overheats a lot (in 3 years I had never heard fan noises), even when it is asleep with the lid down it is notably hot.Īlso while asleep, there's a red light on, that can be seen through the air vents. Firstly, I noticed that the mouse movement was lagging notably when connected to a certain power outlet in my university, making it unusable. However, I have noticed several issues recently. I was pretty happy with the purchase as I was getting 40% higher writing speeds and slightly higher read speeds with the Aura Pro X vs the Apple stock one (might be due to it being almost full when tested). A few weeks ago I upgraded my Macbook Pro Retina 13" Early 2015's SSD to a larger one from OWC: the Aura Pro X.