PCMag reviews products, but we may earn affiliate commissions from buying links on this page.. Apple is not a company interested in selling products that are easy to repair, and in the pursuit of thinness, repairability has clearly suffered. The MacBook range of laptops is increasingly shipping with soldered down parts, making it all but impossible to fix them without Apple's help when something goes wrong. However, for the refresh, it looks as though data recovery may have also been made much harder. As reports, both the 2016 and 2017 models of the MacBook Pro shipped with a data recovery port that could be accessed using a Customer Data Migration Tool by either the Apple Genius Bar or Apple Authorized Service Providers. It meant that, if the logic board failed in a Pro, the port could be used to recover data from the hopefully still functioning SSD. For the 2018 MacBook Pro range, the data recovery port has been removed and the SSD is soldered in place making it non-removable. Mastering Migration How to transfer your old Mac's data to your new Mac Thanks to Migration Assistant, moving your old Mac's data to your new Mac is as simple as can be. Apple has seemingly removed the ability to recover data from these new MacBook Pros when the logic board dies. Users are always encouraged to backup their data, but it's still nice to have a last chance option to recover any data that didn't get backed up yet. This no longer seems to be the case, and there's no obvious data recovery alternative available. The advice given in the 2018 MacBook Pro Service Readiness Guide is to encourage owners to use Time Machine frequently. You will need to update Firmware first Having just fitted a 840 pro SSD to my mac i would definitely advise updating the firmware on your SSD before putting any data on the SSD as the firmware update is a destructive update, by the way you will have to update the firmware by connecting the ssd to a windows machine via Samsungs Magician software and this connection will have to be made via a specific usb to sat 3 cable as a pose to via a caddy cable which has usb plugs on both ends, this lead is very important as the magician software will not recognise the ssd otherwise. I am not sure why this is but it is the only way, i found all this out the hard way. Hence i would advise buying a usb to Sata 3 cable independant of a caddy, the caddy being an option but the cable is not if you wish to upgrade the firmware, i bought mine off e bay for £5. Hope that helps. Click to expand.crucial M4 came with it. Assumed samung 840 would do the same. They should have included it though. Its in the instruction manuel for christsake. It kinda felt like the moment when you buy a printer. Set up the printer. Look at the last step in the manuel where it says 'connect the printer to the computer with the cable'.look for the non-existant cable. ![]() Then go back to the store to buy the damn cable. You get what im trying to say? Its kinda stupid to not include the cable when the consumer clearly needs it. Having just fitted a 840 pro SSD to my mac i would definitely advise updating the firmware on your SSD before putting any data on the SSD as the firmware update is a destructive update, by the way you will have to update the firmware by connecting the ssd to a windows machine via Samsungs Magician software and this connection will have to be made via a specific usb to sat 3 cable as a pose to via a caddy cable which has usb plugs on both ends, this lead is very important as the magician software will not recognise the ssd otherwise. I am not sure why this is but it is the only way, i found all this out the hard way. Hence i would advise buying a usb to Sata 3 cable independant of a caddy, the caddy being an option but the cable is not if you wish to upgrade the firmware, i bought mine off e bay for £5.
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