The soldering which has been used to fix the PS5’s 825 GB SSD to the rest of the silicon may well put a fixed ceiling on how long it’ll last before it fails, according to a new report.

Consider using an external SSD as a boot drive instead. Thunderbolt 4 SSDs are blazing fast, rivaling the speed of soldered Mac SSDs. External drives can be a great way to 'upgrade' your Mac.

There are two things that disturb me about the upcoming third-generation MacBook Air: it could ship without a backlit keyboard, and the SSD may be soldered onto the motherboard.

Unlike the more common NVMe PCIe SSD that we see in most laptops these days, eUFS storage is soldered to the motherboard and isn’t upgradable. Not ideal. There are other potential concerns as well.

Learn how you can upgrade the soldered SSD storage within your Apple MacBook from just 128 GB up to 2 TB of storage if you have the soldering ...

There’s some help for the MacBook Pro’s non-removable, non-upgradable, soldered-on SSD. According to a report from 9to5Mac, Apple has a tool for pulling data off the drive in case of emergency.

Recently, we stumbled upon a video by [iBoff], adding an M.2 NVMe port to a 2011-2013 MacBook. Apple laptops never came with proper M.2 ports, especially the A1278 – so what’s up? The t… ...

Martin speculates that if you use both SSD slots in the Studio, the NAND modules "definitely need to be the same size, and they might need to [use NAND chips from] the same vendor." In other words ...

This would allow the existing SSD module to be easily replaced, whereby the fan and other components would have to be removed in order to access it. After re-soldering, the Mac mini M4 must first ...

The Mac mini boots up, with the larger 1TB SSD, quadrupling the original storage. Making it easier for users Obviously, this is a highly tedious process – and most people won’t have the ...