The MacBook Pro uses FileVault hardware encryption to ensure hard drive safety, so without a working T2 chip (the component responsible for the encryption), data lost on a badly damaged MacBook Pro would be unrecoverable regardless of whether or not the SSD has an access port. We don’t see the soldered-on SSDs as a major impediment to data recovery.Īlso, there’s another key factor to keep in mind: Hardware encryption. From in-lab tests, we believe that it’ll be significantly easier to fix MacBook motherboards than traditional SSDs, depending on the exact nature of the failure. While we haven’t received a 2018 MacBook Pro with the failure scenario described above, we’re preparing for that eventuality. However, most MacBook Pro failure scenarios should be completely recoverable. If a MacBook Pro’s motherboard fails entirely, users will have no way to recover lost data.
The issue only affects the 2018 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar models, but it seems like a significant problem - at first glance. In 2018, the company has removed that port. That’s apparently intended to stop users from replacing their own solid-state drives.īut the 20 models also had a small proprietary port in place to allow data recovery engineers (or, more commonly, Genius Bar employees) to extract the data from the SSD. Here’s a basic rundown: Since 2016, the MacBook Pro with Touch Bar has used a solid-state drive that is directly soldered to the computer’s logic board. A teardown from iFixIt revealed the issue, the latest in a line of controversial changes in Apple’s popular MacBook line.
Over the last few days, the 2018 MacBook Pro has come under fire for having an “unrecoverable” solid-state drive (SSD).
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