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 AP.
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Friday, September 29th, 2017 Author: Some users have reported compatibility issues with third party SSDs when attempting to install or run macOS 10.13 High Sierra. In testing, we have identified a related issue with our Aura SSDs.
Apple is aware of these issues and we are working with them to resolve this as quickly as possible. Thus far we believe the issue is limited to Aura SSDs for only these Mac models:. MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013). MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013).
MacBook Air (11-inch, Early 2014). MacBook Air (13-inch, Early 2014). Mac Pro (Late 2013) The number of OWC customers affected by this issue is limited, but we take every issue very seriously. We have sent communication to our customers that purchased these specific SSD models, and have been working directly with any customers affected. For those who have not attempted to upgrade yet, we recommend using macOS 10.12.x Sierra or earlier on your OWC Aura SSD. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding the upgrade to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, feel free to contact our.
I have used a slightly less complicated—at least for me—way to upgrade OWC Aura SSD to High Sierra. The result is an OWC Aura SSD on a APFS volume, that I was able to upgrade yesterday to 10.13.3 without any problems. Here is the process I found on another forum that worked for me: – Before starting, make sure you still have the original Apple SSD that your computer came with, as well as any screws that were removed during the OWC Aura SSD installation. If you don’t have them, then these instructions will not work. – Use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to make a backup clone of your OWC Aura SSD (OS 10.12.6) startup disk to an external drive. Of course, there are other cloners out there, but CCC offers 30 day free trial, which was incentive enough for me to use it.
This step is not necessary, but is certainly recommended in case something goes wrong. – Put the original Apple SSD into the Envoy enclosure and connect it to your computer. – Use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to make a clone of your OWC Aura SSD startup disk (running OS 10.12.6) to the original Apple SSD. (In my case, I had to temporarily delete my documents, downloads and iTunes library folders, as I had too much data for my 256 GB factory Apple SSD. Once the entire process was completed, I copied these files back from the backup I made in step one.) – Shut down.
– Remove your OWC Aura SSD from your computer and replace it with the original Apple factory SSD from the Envoy enclosure. Make sure to replace not only the SSD, but also any screws which may have been removed during the OWC Aura SSD installation. – Restart your machine as you hold down the alt/option key to see the boot disk options.
Chose the original factory disk. – When the computer finishes booting from the original Apple factory SSD, go to App Store and upgrade to High Sierra. During this upgrade, that SSD will become an APFS volume. – Remove the original Apple factory SSD from your computer and replace it with the OWC Aura SSD. – Put the original Apple SSD back into the Envoy enclosure and connect it to your computer. – Restart your machine as you hold down the alt/option key to see the boot disk options. Chose the original factory disk, which is now in the Envoy enclosure.
– When the machine finishes booting, you can ignore iCloud passwords and Dropbox passwords if they are asked for at this stage. – (Although not it was not a part of the original instructions, at this stage I chose to reformat my OWC Aura SSD to APFS Volume.) – Open CCC and clone the external Envoy disk (at this point housing the original Apple SSD with OS High Sierra on it) to the internal OWC disk. If CCC asks you to create the Recovery Partition on the OWC drive, say yes and create the Recovery Partition on the new drive. – Once the cloning is finished, restart normally.
Your computer will boot from the internal OWC drive running OS High Sierra on a APFS Volume. I hope this is not too complicated and that it helps someone. If not, it will not be the only useless information on the internet.
Managed to update to 10.13.3 without swapping hard drives. – 1.) I updated to latest security update on 10.12.6 2.) made clone with C.C.C 3.) checked if my firmware on the Aurora needs updating, it did. FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY on OCW site. 4.) after updating firmware for hard drive I tried once more to install HighSierra.
This time it worked and files changed to APFS. Had to do the resetting of iCloud account.
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A note the the hard drive is optimizing did come up. HURRAY it worked.
Hope you can do the same by installing the firmware rev 603 ABBFO dated 2015. I solved this issue with a 4TB Aura SSD on a 2013 Mac Pro but took some hacking to get it to work.
Backstory: I had it as my system book drive, formatted HFS+ with macOS Sierra in early 2017, and somehow successfully upgraded up to macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 with no issues. Now (early 2018) I decided to convert the drive to APFS by rebooting into the recovery partition and converting it in Disk Utility. It worked, but at the very end displayed an error related to not being able to “bless” the drive as a bootable volume. Upon reboot, the system would not boot into macOS – it just stayed on a black screen. The way I ended up solving this was to boot back into recovery, launch Disk Util and unmount the system volume, launch Terminal, and run the “bless –device” command to make it bootable. (Google it to find out the proper syntax).
The “bless -mount” command did not seem to be working, but the device command above did. (It should be noted that beforehand, I did swap in the original Apple SSD and do a fresh High Sierra install on it to try and coerce whatever ‘firmware’ to install that people in the comments are talking about. I’m not sure if that helped, but I suspect it didn’t have anything to do with fixing my problem.) Any way, I hope this helps someone.
I spent several hours chasing this issue before I solved it. Dear Sir, on Dec 18th you posted, “Today, my Mac Pro (2013) Aura SSD 2TB is the perfect solution for installing macOS 10.13.2 High Sierra. No need to replace the original APPLE SSD, make the boot disk, right in the Aura 2TB SSD, direct disk formatted APFS format, and then a new installation, everything is going well. The problem seems perfect! At least on my Mac Pro this is the case.” My question to you sir, is could you be more specific on making your boot disk, as well as possibly some detailed instructions? Thank you in advance.
Is this OWC Aura SSD problem with macOS 10.13 High Sierra APFS due to these drives being RAID 0 inside? If they are RAID 0, that should have been fully disclosed in the product specifications. Purchasers have the right to know what they are buying. Some manufacturers do not disclose it, and that only fires back to them when it is discovered later on by others. Examples include (undisclosed RAID 0 inside): LaCie Bolt3 SanDisk 900 Extreme RAID 0 may be great for some applications, but not for others. For instance, it increases more than twice the failure rate if one of the disks inside or the controller fails.
Besides this issue with APFS. I used the procedure that Anthony described on my Mac Pro with a 4tb aura and it worked. There are still some intermittent boot and coming out of sleep problems.
It did not convert to the new file system. Here is Anthony’s process: MacPro Late 2013 Aura SSD. Now running 10.13.1 Achieved this by re-installing the original SSD, installing High Sierra, reinstalled Aura SSD and installed High Sierra. Yes many backups and great care all done very slowly with full erase and installs, but looking back it worked exactly as “documented” which supports the thesis that installing the original SSD allows a firmware update to complete, which then allows everything to run smoothly with the Aura SSD.
I observe that ANY Apple SSD may suffice, such as one borrowed if the original is no longer available because it is the firmware update that it facilitates that matters, not the rest of the associated OSX install. The process worked for me and have APFS on Mercury Aura Pro 480GB in late 2012/Early 2013 Macbook Pro Retina 15″ (so I can go to Pro X even if I wanted). First, cloned latest OS (El Capitan in my case) from MBP to original Apple 256GB Module. Attached via USB in Envoy case. Second, installed original Apple 256 module back in MBP and upgraded to High Sierra (was converted to APFS) Third, put OWC 480 Aura Pro back in MBP and installed High Sierra again. Worked without a hitch and came up as an APFS drive. I am able to CMD-R to bootable recovery if needed, or Option (boot to alternate drive).
MacSales, It’s been over 2 months since the release of HS, are you any closer to finding the solution? My company IT will soon REQUIRE High Sierra for tool compatibility and security (despite the little root issue recently found). I have not received any update since the initial email stating there was an issue. This is not really working directly with affected customers and being disingenuous is not a direction you should be going. I dropped $1600 on your product. If the best answer turns out to be that the Aura, HS, and MacPro(6,1) are not 100% compatible (where not having APFS is a showstopper).
Then so be it, just state the fact and move on. Of course, the “move on” depends on how well you want to handle the PR firestorm of dissatisfied customers.
I am happy to say that I found a solution for the High Sierra/OWC Aura Drive 480 GB conflict. I called the OWC Tech support after I spent numerous hours with Apple Tech support options, and there is an update fix that the OWC technician walked me through. The install took a considerable amount of time, with some hick-ups and false completion signals, but it eventually completed successfully. Let the technician walk you through it, since there are a couple of tricky instructions, until the install step, and be patient with the process. Does anyone at OWC monitor or interact on this blog or do you just enable it as a place where customers can share their pain and disatisfaction as your ignore the issue? Having been an OWC customer for many years your lack of engagement with your customers here has really reduced my previously sterling opinion of you as a company.
Buck up on this OWC and at least keep us current that you and Apple are working on this with some indication of when next we’ll see an update from you (preferably a solution)! In accordance with owc guidelines, I swapped the OWC Aura SSD from the Mac Pro and replaced the original Apple 512GB SSD, and then successfully installed macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and confirm that the file system has been converted to APFS. I did a backup and then re-installed OWC Aura SSD, the recovery is smooth, but the file system is still HFS +, the file system can not be converted to APFS regardless of the cloning or recovery, and macOS 10.13 High Sierra can only be run under HFS +. I think it is OWC Aura SSD firmware is not compatible, waiting for the new firmware may be very far, I am frustrated, looking forward to improving support as soon as possible.
Hi Steve, that’s not good, my sympathy. Have you tried “internet recovery”?
(alt-cmd-r during startup) I used this alone while doing these (clean install) updates because everything else failed one way or another (MacPro not Macbook) I also first re-installed the original SSD, clean installed HS on that, removed it re-installed Aura and then clean installed HS to that. The theory being that this process updates the firmware somewhere which then allows the Aura update to proceed. Humble apologies if this doesn’t help. MacPro Late 2013 Aura SSD. Now running 10.13.1 Achieved this by re-installing the original SSD, installing High Sierra, reinstalled Aura SSD and installed High Sierra. Yes many backups and great care all done very slowly with full erase and installs, but looking back it worked exactly as “documented” which supports the thesis that installing the original SSD allows a firmware update to complete, which then allows everything to run smoothly with the Aura SSD.
I observe that ANY Apple SSD may suffice, such as one borrowed if the original is no longer available because it is the firmware update that it facilitates that matters, not the rest of the associated OSX install. The Work Around Process, worked great for me. OWC Aura 4TB installled.
Re-install apple 1TB, cmd+R, ran Disk utility (Erase), installed High Sierra. Shutdown, re-install OWC Aura 4TB, cmd+R, ran Disk utility Re-install OS High Sierra, when it restarted, it was still running Sierra, went to app store open/loaded High Sierra and ran install again, that was it. Did not need to rebuild from Time Machine, everything was there and working great, just like it was, running High sierra (10.13.1). Man that is a load -off me.
I have a 2013 Late Mac Pro (6 Core) with OWC Aura 4TB installled. I got tired of waiting for an official fix. So I just went with the confirmed workaround: swapping OWC Aura SSD with the origial Apple SSD back and forth. I can also confirm the workaround REALLY works.
I had misgivings since so many complained about their Mac Pro getting bricked and all. Yeah, the nightmare became reality when my Mac Pro seemd to have gone nuts with its fan shrieking. But I realized that I forgot to put back those power screws (not sure what they call them, those screws that connect Aura’s power cables to Mac Pro’s board.) Those are easily forgotten if you hurry. When I put them back on, everything went ok. It was logical: it should just work since it’s like not having installed the OWC SSD in the first place. No boot with shrieking fan? Check your screws.
Well, if you have sold your original Apple SSD, you might be out of luck. But if you do have the Apple SSD, at least you have a choice: wait for an offical fix that might never come or just invest a couple of hourse of elbow grease.
I have a MacBook Pro 17″ (Late 2011) – MacBookPro8,3. I installed an OWC Mercury Electra 3G MAX SSD 1TB hard drive back in 2014. I tried the macOS High Sierra update several times by myself and with the assistance of several Apple Specialists over chat and on the phone. Eventually that had to do call me back so that they can have some of their engineers look into my particular issue. One issue was the EFI firmware not updating, or something like that. When I would boot into CMD+R or CMD+OPT+R, it would want to install OS X Lion.
Eventually I was able to update this portion of the EFI and now when I boot to Recovery I can install macOS Sierra, however, I attempted an upgrade again to macOS High Sierra and it gave me the same firmware verification error. The latest Apple Specialist has set up an appointment to a local Apple Store so they can try something out. Total number of hours spent trying to get macOS High Sierra 10 hours.
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