Hello friends!
Over the past years the PCIe interface has become very common in Solid State drives. However, until 2020 it was not possible to recover data from such damaged SSD devices. The PCIe lines inside the PC-3000 Portable III tool give you the ability to recover data and evidence from the PCIe SSDs along with the ATA-based devices. But it doesn’t stop here!
Our developers constantly add more drives to the SSD Support List. During the ACE Lab Online Technology Conference 2020 we have announced the Apple NVMe drives support. Now you can recover data from modern Apple-based SSDs with our new PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD.
However, a number of Apple Macs, released between 2013 and 2016, were left unreached because they are based on the proprietary NON-NVMe architecture – the Apple AHCI PCIe protocol. So, this September we have released the beta version 6.8x of the PC-3000 Portable III. The update allows you to deal with all types of PCIe SSD drives, including the Apple AHCI ones that were hugely popular in the Macbooks, Mac Pro, and iMacs from 2013 and onwards.
The main window of the port selection
Drive initialization in the Universal utility
Complete access to the PCIe AHCI drive with APFS in Data Extractor
The list of Apple Macbook SSDs and the supported issues:
| Mac Computer (year) | The PC-3000 Support | Storage Device Interface type | Adapter | Logical Issues | Physical Issues |
| Laptops | |||||
| MacBook 12″ | |||||
| MacBook 12 Early 2015 – Mid 2017 A1534 | Not supported (onboard SSD) |
Proprietary onboard AHCI (2015), NVMe (2016-2017) SSD | doesn’t exist | ✅ (in theory) |
✘ |
| MacBook Air 11″ and 13″ | |||||
| MacBook Air 13 2008-2009 A1237 | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
SATA HDD 1.8″ LIF | Adapter LIF to SATA | ✅ | ✅ |
| MacBook Air 11 2010-2012 A1370/A1465
MacBook Air 13 2010-2012 A1369/A1466 |
PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
Proprietary SATA-based SSD (Apple SATA Blade 128-256GB) |
Special adapter to SATA | ✅ | ✅ only for: S3C29MAX01-Y340 S4LJ204X01-Y040 |
| MacBook Air 11 Mid 2013 – Mid 2015 A1465
MacBook Air 13 Mid 2013 – Mid 2015 A1466 |
PC-3000 Portable III | Proprietary PCIe AHCI SSD (Apple PCIe Blade 128-256GB) |
PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD | ✅ | ✘ |
| MacBook Air 13 Mid 2017 A1466 | PC-3000 Portable III | Proprietary PCIe NVMe SSD (Apple NVMe Blade 128-256GB) |
PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD | ✅ | ✘ |
| MacBook Air 13 Late 2018 – 2020 A1932/A2179 with Retina Display |
Not supported (onboard SSD + T2 chip) |
Proprietary onboard NVMe SSD | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| MacBook Pro 13″ | |||||
| Macbook Pro 13 2008-2012 A1278 | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
2.5″ SATA HDD, 2.5″ SATA SSD (by default – HGST HDD 160-500GB) | SATA connection | ✅ | ✅ |
| MacBook Pro 13 Late 2012 A1347 with Retina Display |
PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
Proprietary SATA-based SSD (Apple SATA Blade 128-768GB) |
Special adapter to SATA | ✅ | ✅ only for: S3C29MAX01-Y340 S4LJ204X01-Y040 |
| MacBook Pro 13 Late 2013 – Late 2015 A1502 with Retina Display |
PC-3000 Portable III | Proprietary PCIe AHCI SSD (Apple PCIe Blade 256-2048GB) |
PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD | ✅ | ✘ |
| MacBook Pro 13 Late 2016 – Mid 2017 A1708 with functional keys |
PC-3000 Portable III | Proprietary NVMe SSD (Wide interface Apple PCIe Blade 128-512GB) | doesn’t exist | ✅
(in theory) |
✘ |
| MacBook Pro 13 Late 2016 – Early 2020 with Touch Bar – all models! |
Not supported (onboard SSD + T2 chip) |
Proprietary onboard NVMe SSD | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| MacBook Pro 15″ and Pro 16″ | |||||
| MacBook Pro 15 2008-2012 A1286 | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
2.5″ SATA HDD, 2.5″ SATA SSD (by default – HGST HDD 160-500GB) | SATA connection | ✅ | ✅ |
| MacBook Pro 15 Mid 2012 – Early 2013 A1398 with Retina Display |
PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
ProprietarySATA-based SSD (Apple SATA Blade 256-768GB) |
Special adapter to SATA | ✅ | ✅ only for: S3C29MAX01-Y340 S4LJ204X01-Y040 |
| MacBook Pro 15 Late 2013 – Mid 2015 A1398 with Retina Display |
PC-3000 Portable III | Proprietary PCIe AHCI SSD (Apple PCIe Blade 256-2048GB) |
PCIe NVMe/ AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD | ✅ | ✘ |
| MacBook Pro 15 Late 2016 – Mid 2019 with Touch Bar – all models! |
Not supported (onboard SSD + T2 chip) |
Proprietary onboard NVMe SSD | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| MacBook Pro 16 Late 2019 A2141 with Touch Bar |
Not supported (onboard SSD + T2 chip) |
Proprietary onboard NVMe SSD | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| Desktop computers | |||||
| Mac Pro | |||||
| Mac Pro 2013 A1481 | PC-3000 Portable III | Propriate PCIe AHCI SSD (Apple PCIe Blade 256-2048GB) | PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD | ✅ | ✘ |
| Mac Pro 2019 A1989 | Not supported (T2 chip) |
SSD contains only NAND memory, controller integrated in T2 chip | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| iMac | |||||
| iMac 21.5″ 2010-2017 and 2015-2019 4K | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
2.5″ SATA HDD, 2.5″ SATA SSD (by default – HGST HDD 160-1000GB) |
SATA connection | ✅ | ✅ |
| iMac 27″ 2010 – 2013 | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
3.5″ SATA HDD (by default – WD/Seagate 500-3000GB) |
SATA connection | ✅ | ✅ |
| iMac 27″ 2014-2019 5K | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
3.5″ SATA HDD + ACHI/PCIe SSD (by default – WD/ Seagate 500-3000GB Fusion drive with 32-128GB SSD) |
SATA connection for HDD
PCIe NVMe/AHCI Adapter for Apple Macbook SSD |
✅ | ✅ for HDD
✘ for SSD |
| iMac 27″ 2020 5K | Not supported (T2 chip) |
SSD contains only NAND memory, controller integrated in T2 chip | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| iMac Pro 27″ 2017-2020 | Not supported (T2 chip) |
SSD contains only NAND memory, controller integrated in T2 chip | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
| Mac Mini | |||||
| Mac Mini 2010-2014 | PC-3000 Portable I/II/III PC-3000 Express PC-3000 UDMA |
2.5″ SATA HDD (by default – HGST HDD 250-500GB) |
SATA connection | ✅ | ✅ |
| Mac Mini 2018-2020 | Not supported (onboard SSD) |
Proprietary onboard NVMe SSD | doesn’t exist | ✘ | ✘ |
By the way, some of the SSD vendors also use AHCI in the native PCIe x16-based drives. The beta version 6.8x of the PC-3000 Portable III allows you to deal with these devices as well. You can read more about native PCIe x16 SSD recovery in this article.
If you have any questions regarding your data recovery cases, you’re welcome to address them to the Technical Support department.
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Can we do this mac ssd recovery on PC3000 Express?
Hello. Drives based on ATA (all before the end of 2012) protocol might be recovered via Express and UDMA systems. For PCIe-based drives recovery please use Portable III System.