my late 2015 iMac 17,1 has a 500GB SSD in.
It's not big enough and I wanted to get it upgraded to at least 1Tb so I approached a company that does warranty work for Apple on the assumption that their work must be up to the correct tech standards etc as required by Apple.
They quoted me (you may want to sit down for this bit) $2,333 PLUS GST to do it. Yes, more than the cost of a new Macbook Air...for a hard drive swap.
I've sent them a 'Please Explain', as OWC sell a 2Tb DIY upgrade kit that costs only US$500 or so, which is a great deal less. Obviously there is labour etc but surely no more than a couple of hours if you know what you are doing?
This was the exact response I got, in case it contains relevant information that I can't spot but someone here can:
"This is a Configure to Order Model in Apples system but if you advised it has a 512GB SSD in there then there is an option to go to a 1TB version, however this is extremely expensive.
For the 1TB SSD and the labor to fit this it will cost $2,333.00+GST."
Surely the CTO aspect has no relevance in the fittings/size etc of the SSD? This is what the system says is installed:
Macintosh HD:
Available: 20.06 GB (20,061,249,536 bytes)
Capacity: 500.07 GB (500,068,036,608 bytes)
Mount Point: /
File System: APFS
Writable: Yes
Ignore Ownership: No
BSD Name: disk1s1
Volume UUID: 102F7604-AFA0-3F58-8F69-D1F886C085BC
Physical Drive:
Device Name: APPLE SSD SM0512G
Media Name: AppleAPFSMedia
Medium Type: SSD
Protocol: PCI
Internal: Yes
Partition Map Type: Unknown
S.M.A.R.T. Status: Verified
If it truly would cost that much to change it, then I may as well just sell this one and replace it with a newer system. It does seem a ridiculously large sum though. Anyone have any suggestions or thoughts?