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The April 2014 update of the 11" MacBook Air packs refreshed dual-core i5 and i7 Haswell processors and slightly increased battery performance.

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High Sierra on 3rd Party SSD

Has anyone managed to install high sierra on a 3rd party ssd ?

seems to work fine on sata ssd's

but when i tried on a macbook air 11" early 2014 it won't install

Update (02/12/2018)

I found a solution after talking to OWC

https://eshop.macsales.com/Service/Knowl...

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Do you have an OWC SSD? If you do there is a known issue with High Sierra with there SSD's running APFS. Review this: A Note on High Sierra Compatibility with Third Party SSD's

At this time I'm still waiting for Apple to fix a more generic issue with APFS running on SATA based SSD drives besides the special case with OWC's SSD's. The issue Apple has a queuing issue within the APFS and the Finder process so you'll encounter issues trying to save documents and URL's.

If you own an older Unibody MacBook Pro with an SATA based SSD you want to stick with Sierra for now.

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thanks, i had already see this online, was just wondering if anyone had got any further.

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I would contact OWC to see what they say.

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Thats great news! Were you able to apply the firmware update to fix the issue?

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