Man, that is a tough install. You have to gut the entire machine to get at the SSD which is under the logic board. I couldn't find an OWC video on how to do it, the link on the product page just goes to their general video section and they only have a video on replacing the larger drive for that model.

On to installing Catalina and testing.

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what SSD did you install? what did the new drive replace? a smaller SSD?



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Congrats! Must be a huge relief to have it all back together and working properly.

Just discovered that the the battery is bulging in my late 2013 MBP. Watched the whole OWC install video today, and it's a pretty big gut job. I went back and forth between "oh, hell no" to "I can do this if I really take my time" to "oh, hell no" and back to "it's worth a shot depending on what the genius bar says."

In the end, I will probably chicken out because I don't feel so good about working so closely to the battery in its current state.

It was a Fusion Drive Mac with a 32GB SSD and 1TB HDD. Pulled out the 32GB SSD and installed an OWC Aura SSD and left the 1TB HDD in as a backup drive.

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Congrats! Must be a huge relief to have it all back together and working properly.

Just discovered that the the battery is bulging in my late 2013 MBP. Watched the whole OWC install video today, and it's a pretty big gut job. I went back and forth between "oh, hell no" to "I can do this if I really take my time" to "oh, hell no" and back to "it's worth a shot depending on what the genius bar says."

In the end, I will probably chicken out because I don't feel so good about working so closely to the battery in its current state.

You should look at this thread, there was a post in it that mentioned an alternate method to remove the battery without removing the logic board.

[forums.macresource.com]

This was the video

[www.youtube.com]

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Congrats! Must be a huge relief to have it all back together and working properly.

Just discovered that the the battery is bulging in my late 2013 MBP. Watched the whole OWC install video today, and it's a pretty big gut job. I went back and forth between "oh, hell no" to "I can do this if I really take my time" to "oh, hell no" and back to "it's worth a shot depending on what the genius bar says."

In the end, I will probably chicken out because I don't feel so good about working so closely to the battery in its current state.

You should look at this thread, there was a post in it that mentioned an alternate method to remove the battery without removing the logic board.

[forums.macresource.com]

This was the video

[www.youtube.com]

Thank you so much! I may be back to "oh, hell no," but after several hours of googling, I'm dumfounded that this was posted in the forum just 4 days ago. DaveMchine apparently avoided all of the buzzwords I used in my searches.

No matter what happens, I think I might make a life-sized poster of his notes. Too cool.





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Congrats! Must be a huge relief to have it all back together and working properly.

Just discovered that the the battery is bulging in my late 2013 MBP. Watched the whole OWC install video today, and it's a pretty big gut job. I went back and forth between "oh, hell no" to "I can do this if I really take my time" to "oh, hell no" and back to "it's worth a shot depending on what the genius bar says."

In the end, I will probably chicken out because I don't feel so good about working so closely to the battery in its current state.

You should look at this thread, there was a post in it that mentioned an alternate method to remove the battery without removing the logic board.

[forums.macresource.com]

This was the video

[www.youtube.com]

Thank you so much! I may be back to "oh, hell no," but after several hours of googling, I'm dumfounded that this was posted in the forum just 4 days ago. DaveMchine apparently avoided all of the buzzwords I used in my searches.

No matter what happens, I think I might make a life-sized poster of his notes. Too cool.

We have always done it similar to this but used seperate sheets of paper for each stage, taped the parts on and stacked up the sheers. Then the stages and parts were in the right order for reassembly.

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Congrats! Must be a huge relief to have it all back together and working properly.

Just discovered that the the battery is bulging in my late 2013 MBP. Watched the whole OWC install video today, and it's a pretty big gut job. I went back and forth between "oh, hell no" to "I can do this if I really take my time" to "oh, hell no" and back to "it's worth a shot depending on what the genius bar says."

In the end, I will probably chicken out because I don't feel so good about working so closely to the battery in its current state.

You should look at this thread, there was a post in it that mentioned an alternate method to remove the battery without removing the logic board.

[forums.macresource.com]

This was the video

[www.youtube.com]

Thank you so much! I may be back to "oh, hell no," but after several hours of googling, I'm dumfounded that this was posted in the forum just 4 days ago. DaveMchine apparently avoided all of the buzzwords I used in my searches.

No matter what happens, I think I might make a life-sized poster of his notes. Too cool.

We have always done it similar to this but used seperate sheets of paper for each stage, taped the parts on and stacked up the sheers. Then the stages and parts were in the right order for reassembly.

I went to using this magnetic writeable mat years ago, very handy.

For future reference, iFixit says the teardown is similar to the 2015
[www.ifixit.com]

2015 teardown guides
[www.ifixit.com]

For the price of SSD drives all iMacs should just have 512 SSD by default!!!

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We have always done it similar to this but used seperate sheets of paper for each stage, taped the parts on and stacked up the sheers. Then the stages and parts were in the right order for reassembly.

Back in the G3 iBook days, I used to print out pictures from the disassembly instructions that showed where all the screws go, and would tape the removed screws to their part of the picture.

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For the price of SSD drives all iMacs should just have 512 SSD by default!!!

iMacs dont have the cheapest you can buy off ebay 2.5" SSDs inside.

They have PCIe NVME Flash storage.

But agree.

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We have always done it similar to this but used seperate sheets of paper for each stage, taped the parts on and stacked up the sheers. Then the stages and parts were in the right order for reassembly.

Back in the G3 iBook days, I used to print out pictures from the disassembly instructions that showed where all the screws go, and would tape the removed screws to their part of the picture.

I would use a sharpie and mark up a chocolate tray from a Whitman's Sampler box to hold the screws ...or an egg carton.

Why not drop it into an external case?

USB for cheap, TB if you want to pay for performance.

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Why not drop it into an external case?

USB for cheap, TB if you want to pay for performance.

I was gonna ask the same quesiton, but since he already installed it, seemed irrelevant.

Several posts in the last few days about building a an external 40 GB/s PCIe NVME drives.

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