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the-darkvoid / XPS9360-macOS

macOS Catalina on Dell XPS 9360
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NVMe VS. SATA M.2 Power Consumption #143

Open kevinshroff opened 5 years ago

kevinshroff commented 5 years ago

Do we still need to swap out our NVMe drives with SATA M.2 to improve power consumption or is that no longer an issue?

Mateo1234454545 commented 5 years ago

I want to know that also. I've read that MacOs doesn't have proper energy management with thirdparty NVME's.

the-darkvoid commented 5 years ago

Since macOS 10.14.6, a 3rd party NVMe SSD controller is now identified as a "Generic SSD Controller", but is unknown if this helps NVMe power management in any way. Someone would need to measure and confirm.

rostopira commented 4 years ago

I've updated to 10.15.1 and still have terrible battery drain with stock Toshiba 512gb NVMe drive (BIOS says battery in excellent state)

rostopira commented 4 years ago

NVMeFix.kext was added to repo recently Had anyone tried it with stock Toshiba ssd already?

rostopira commented 4 years ago

Okay, I've finally tried it myself, result = kernel panic

the-darkvoid commented 4 years ago

@rostopira,

NVMeFixup.kext was just updated hopefully fixing some kernel panic issues.