1 00:00:00,320 --> 00:00:08,679 hey there Apple in case you didn't know this is an SSD normally users can swap 2 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:13,679 these to repair or upgrade their computers but according to some articles 3 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:20,480 we've found online there is no way to swap the SSD on the new expensive Mac 4 00:00:17,480 --> 00:00:22,279 Studio of course the truth is a little 5 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:27,080 bit more complicated than that and in fact there are some reports that you can 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:32,480 in fact swap out the SSD in the Mac Studio so naturally I shelled out thank 7 00:00:30,279 --> 00:00:37,440 you o nearly $3,000 for a second one so we could test 8 00:00:35,559 --> 00:00:42,039 it out for you because I mean like there's no way that Apple would do 9 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:46,360 something this anti-consumer would they no never I mean especially not months 10 00:00:45,079 --> 00:00:50,680 after that big splash about repairability right that would be crazy 11 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:54,960 it would be crazy just like it would be crazy to tell you about our sponsor 12 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:59,399 glass wire glass wire lets you see past and present network activity detect 13 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:03,920 malware on your PC or Android device and block connections to prevent things from 14 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:07,680 getting worse use offer code Linus for 25% off at the link 15 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:23,320 below naturally before we begin we have to get our Mac Studio opened up so is 16 00:01:20,799 --> 00:01:27,520 that it great paper packaging though I love that I love this little 17 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:31,680 spring-loaded box at the bottom it's made completely out of cardboard they're 18 00:01:29,439 --> 00:01:35,079 packaging it Engineers are super cool I'm not going to go through this too 19 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:39,439 much with you guys you can get it with the M1 Max you can get it with the M1 20 00:01:37,320 --> 00:01:45,119 Pro you can get it with the M1 Ultra it's got Thunderbolt 4 it's got USB type 21 00:01:42,119 --> 00:01:46,759 a 10 gig Ethernet HDMI out of course 22 00:01:45,119 --> 00:01:51,920 DisplayPort over Thunderbolt you got USB and SD card reader at the front and 23 00:01:49,399 --> 00:01:56,920 it comes with a power cable that is check this out fully removable wow 24 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:00,280 that's a feature now look at that oh it's kind of an antifeature cuz now I 25 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:03,719 can't lift up my computer by a power cord without it falling down oh we 26 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,200 should have done it the monitor way this has been covered to death so I'm not going to harp on it too much but getting 27 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:12,000 into the Mac Studio is a bit of a pain in the butt they could have put the 28 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:15,160 screw somewhere accessible but instead they're under a little rubber foot that 29 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:18,360 you're going to have to bung up in order to get at them what's the best way to 30 00:02:16,720 --> 00:02:22,080 get under this stupid thing so it looks like there's there's a spot that you can 31 00:02:20,400 --> 00:02:26,239 get under see like right here oh look at that there's a specific spot I hear a 32 00:02:24,239 --> 00:02:30,000 lot of arguments for why Apple should be protective of its products making sure 33 00:02:27,920 --> 00:02:34,080 that only qualified Personnel work on them but a lot of those arguments become 34 00:02:32,239 --> 00:02:38,640 completely invalid when you consider that you wouldn't need to be specially 35 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:42,599 qualified if they didn't have special bull that you need to know in order to 36 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:46,400 open it this is a problem that Apple engineered thanks Apple I haven't 37 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:52,080 actually other than popping in on Anthony while he was shooting ShortCircuit looked at the inside I always 38 00:02:49,599 --> 00:02:55,360 tend to try to sequester myself when there's a big new release that I haven't 39 00:02:53,599 --> 00:02:58,560 had a chance to see in person yet have I lost a screw already that's okay I'll 40 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,840 just be able to order a replacement easily from Apple 41 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:09,519 got to give credit they've got style matte black pcbs all the time wait are 42 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:14,200 these they're they're completely different wait what oh wa did we just 43 00:03:13,159 --> 00:03:19,200 discover that there are different revisions of the Mac Studio power supply 44 00:03:16,280 --> 00:03:25,560 are these the exact same skew I thought so you double check yeah what the crap 45 00:03:22,640 --> 00:03:31,840 these are completely different pcbs this is not just Apple sourced from two 46 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:33,920 different factories this is different 47 00:03:31,840 --> 00:03:39,200 construction techniques even oh interesting this one says light on power 48 00:03:36,439 --> 00:03:43,560 technology and this is from Delta so if I had to guess I think what probably 49 00:03:40,959 --> 00:03:46,760 happened is Apple put out for qualifying designs from multiple vendors as you 50 00:03:45,680 --> 00:03:53,959 would because you want to get competitive quotes you never just get one quote they got multiple validated 51 00:03:50,959 --> 00:03:55,680 designs and instead of just choosing one 52 00:03:53,959 --> 00:03:59,200 they're dual sourcing right from the start which if I had to guess I would 53 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:02,760 say because this isn't going to be an especially high volume product compared 54 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:06,120 to something like say an iPhone is just making sure that by having two sources 55 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:10,640 their supply is less likely to be interrupted by random covid shutdowns or 56 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:15,360 whatever else the case may be fascinating okay I confirmed it they're 57 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:19,479 exactly the same specs uh which ones which oh mine has the Shmo okay cuz 58 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:23,400 they're probably knowing Apple they're probably chipped to should we switch the 59 00:04:21,479 --> 00:04:26,759 power supplies screw it we might as well we might as well why don't we just start 60 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,720 with that I I'm not even going to keep disassembling it for now I'm just going 61 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:33,440 to install this and see if it'll boot let's find out if you can switch your power supply I mean that's what the 62 00:04:32,039 --> 00:04:38,520 people want to know right that's why we're here doing what Apple could easily 63 00:04:35,520 --> 00:04:42,800 document and tell us but 64 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:45,000 don't oh Alex yeah what's going on what 65 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:50,479 do you mean what is this PC monitor where's my studio monitor if you 66 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:55,120 want I can go grab it look how long this power cord is Alex that's a DisplayPort 67 00:04:52,880 --> 00:04:59,919 cable well I could plug it in at any distance I wanted who needs it look at 68 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:04,400 that confirmed you can swap between the two 69 00:05:02,400 --> 00:05:10,160 different models of power supply now this is where Anthony 70 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:14,160 rightfully got really excited during his tear down on ShortCircuit because it 71 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:21,199 was almost immediately obvious that Apple has not one but two SSD slots 72 00:05:18,479 --> 00:05:24,520 including one that's unpopulated that's kind of cool check this out they're 73 00:05:23,319 --> 00:05:29,720 doing power here so all your data pins will 74 00:05:27,639 --> 00:05:33,199 definitely be connected before power supplied to the drive that's pretty sick 75 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:38,280 actually before we go much further there's one other bit of speculation we'd like to put to rest some users 76 00:05:36,039 --> 00:05:42,199 online observed that their SSD was in the right slot and wouldn't work anymore 77 00:05:40,880 --> 00:05:46,880 if they moved it over to the left leading them to think that maybe this 78 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:50,639 chip right here was an SSD controller or somehow integral to the functioning of 79 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:55,479 the SSD but you can see that our unit in fact both of our units have the SSD 80 00:05:52,880 --> 00:06:00,000 installed on the left and there's no chip down here so my guess would be that 81 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:04,800 this has more to do with the front iio and less to do with the ssds because as 82 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:08,880 we know Apple puts their SSD controllers directly on their M1 so so these are 83 00:06:07,039 --> 00:06:13,160 going to be wired up directly to the S so I got to give myself credit for 84 00:06:10,919 --> 00:06:17,440 nailing that this wasn't an SSD before I think anyone else did I was on W show 85 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:21,639 right after I had checked out Anthony's ShortCircuit and I was like I don't see a controller or Dam on there that's 86 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:27,199 right ladies and gentlemen we've got four Nan flash packages and that's all 87 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:31,319 she wrote which is probably actually why it has two slots in the first place 88 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:35,120 because in order to hit that 8 terabytes of capacity they're going to need yeah 89 00:06:33,479 --> 00:06:39,520 at least eight packages with current technology as far as I'm aware Hey 90 00:06:36,639 --> 00:06:43,960 where's that Sabin uh 8 tab SSD yes confirmed Sabin is using eight packages 91 00:06:41,840 --> 00:06:47,560 to hit 8 terab so that's probably why we haven't seen any loaded with two already 92 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:54,000 because the 8 tab one is so expensive and not too many people are going to be ordering it and ripping it open enough 93 00:06:50,199 --> 00:06:54,000 about that though ready to do an SSD 94 00:06:54,120 --> 00:07:00,240 swap unlike our power supplies everything about our flash storage 95 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:04,000 modules appears to be identical other than the colors of tape that we put on 96 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:07,840 them so I'm expecting this to go off without a hitch as long as Apple didn't 97 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:14,160 lock it but I want to talk in a bit more depth about why I called this a flash 98 00:07:10,199 --> 00:07:17,039 storage module rather than an SSD an SSD 99 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:20,599 has three main components flash storage so those are the chips right there you 100 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:26,080 can see the analoges right there between the two often a dam cache though that's 101 00:07:22,919 --> 00:07:28,960 not a given and a controller but apple 102 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:33,840 is conspicuously missing both a cach and a controller that's because Apple moved 103 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:38,919 this from the SSD so this is not a full SSD onto their M1 silicon and there are 104 00:07:36,800 --> 00:07:44,039 a number of good reasons to do this security performance and perhaps most 105 00:07:41,800 --> 00:07:49,080 importantly cost one of these controllers is going to be a couple of 106 00:07:46,159 --> 00:07:53,159 dollars on every single unit putting it in the Silicon of the die means it is 107 00:07:50,919 --> 00:07:57,080 now pennies now in the long ago past allocating diarrhea to anything other 108 00:07:54,879 --> 00:08:01,599 than compute and connectivity would have been Unthinkable but over time as trans 109 00:07:59,479 --> 00:08:06,879 resistors have continued to shrink and especially now as modular and chiplet 110 00:08:04,960 --> 00:08:11,639 Designs are becoming more and more popular adding a little bit of die area 111 00:08:09,479 --> 00:08:17,520 for something like an SSD controller isn't as much of a problem and it's very 112 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:19,800 clear that apple does not care how large 113 00:08:17,520 --> 00:08:25,520 their die gets for their M1 silicon what this means though is that we can't think 114 00:08:22,159 --> 00:08:27,479 of these things as ssds and it makes 115 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:33,919 sense that you can't just willy-nilly swap the flash storage around because 116 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:35,959 you also cannot do that on a regular SSD 117 00:08:33,919 --> 00:08:40,320 because unlike a hard drive bits are not stored in any kind of sequential fashion 118 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:44,920 and only the controller knows where every zero and one is supposed to be 119 00:08:42,959 --> 00:08:50,000 however there should be no reason that changing out the SSD and completely 120 00:08:47,160 --> 00:08:54,000 formatting it fresh shouldn't work so let's go ahead and proceed one nice 121 00:08:51,600 --> 00:08:57,240 thing is that it looks like these little I would have initially thought they're 122 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:00,920 thermal pads but now I'm feeling like they're more Emi Shields they're still 123 00:08:59,079 --> 00:09:04,880 sticky which means I should be able to just reuse it very nice love it I love 124 00:09:03,240 --> 00:09:08,760 that I don't have to like basically reassemble this thing at all in order to 125 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:12,560 test it uh you should probably uh put the other bit of the cage in there first 126 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:16,640 uh fine I'll put that in ah it's probably fine yeah it's fine could I 127 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:22,279 just get a see of like A4 paper or something well it's not on so oh is it 128 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:28,399 not I see lights flashing inside yes it's saying SOS oh it's mad oh right cuz 129 00:09:25,560 --> 00:09:31,240 I swapped to the SSD yeah oh balls you'd think there would be something on screen 130 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:36,440 instead of just flashing a red thing I mean they clearly know what the problem is there's a there's a blink code here 131 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:41,000 yeah and in the past they actually had recovery environments so you could you 132 00:09:38,760 --> 00:09:44,640 know reflash all of the stuff on here it would just connect to the internet in 133 00:09:42,240 --> 00:09:49,240 the recovery environment do all the stuff for you you can't anymore oh why 134 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:53,519 it's a great question so what do you do well you have to read this little 135 00:09:51,399 --> 00:09:58,240 document here and use another Mac you have to have another Mac to restore your 136 00:09:55,560 --> 00:10:03,120 Mac you have to have another Mac it's infuriating it's like the way Apple 137 00:10:00,560 --> 00:10:06,760 treats their customers oh you didn't buy enough of our products 138 00:10:09,760 --> 00:10:17,320 well that was creepy with accurate yeah like I'm their customer aren't am I not 139 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:19,200 oh you're not not a real customer plug 140 00:10:17,320 --> 00:10:25,480 the Mac computers together with a supported USBC cable what supported USBC 141 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:30,120 cable does it have to be an apple one or what I don't think so please tell me 142 00:10:27,519 --> 00:10:35,519 there's no BS chip in it they really put the fu in dfu mode the fact you have to 143 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:40,000 own a second magc to do this it will take a little while for this to fully 144 00:10:37,839 --> 00:10:43,680 you know install the OS well that's perfect cuz I have a conference call 145 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:48,959 right now but wait that means we've made it at least as far as that swapping it 146 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:54,079 worked 100% of the time for us yeah so unlike the people who said that they did 147 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:59,590 have difficulty with some of their swaps we managed a 100% success rate sample 148 00:10:56,200 --> 00:11:01,600 size of two yep okay VB 149 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:07,519 we're back and it worked it sort of worked oh it didn't work and then I did 150 00:11:05,880 --> 00:11:13,680 it again exactly the same way and then it worked oh okay well It ultimately 151 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:19,120 worked which answers one question which is can you change out your SSD if due to 152 00:11:17,200 --> 00:11:25,399 a a defect or whatever else and the answer is yes but it still leaves one 153 00:11:22,639 --> 00:11:33,560 question pending what if you wanted to upgrade say go from 512 gigs to 154 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:35,920 4 terab if you can swap two 512 gig 155 00:11:33,560 --> 00:11:40,720 modules then surely nothing would prevent you from putting in a larger one 156 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:45,399 would it let's find out that's interesting I had said that I thought 157 00:11:43,000 --> 00:11:48,079 power was being delivered via these two bands right here and I had said oh 158 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:52,160 that's such a cool design power's not connected until it's plugged all the way 159 00:11:50,040 --> 00:11:56,000 in I was wrong about that it looks like those are both just for grounding and 160 00:11:54,760 --> 00:12:03,120 since they're not hot swappable there'd be no reason to care about power not being connected until later anyway so 161 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:05,480 just want to correct that are you ready 162 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:09,760 theoretically this is a 1 tab Mac Studio now well you probably need to do the 163 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:14,079 whole dfu thing again uh well you know sure let's just let's just see maybe 164 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:18,639 it'll magically work it didn't wait will this work shouldn't if this works that's 165 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:22,600 kind of awesome that means third parties would be able to make these flash 166 00:12:20,639 --> 00:12:27,480 modules conceivably and you could actually have cheap SSD upgrades that 167 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:31,399 would be awesome flash module upgrades well it's an SSD upgrade if you update 168 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:38,839 the flash of an SSD installing system holy 169 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:40,560 crap holy crap is this going to work did 170 00:12:38,839 --> 00:12:44,399 we already talk about how uh Scotty from strange Parts managed to change out the 171 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:48,519 flash on an iPhone like oh yeah and it just detected it he just plugged it in 172 00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:55,480 to a restore and it worked which shows you that even with all of Apple really 173 00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:58,600 so even with Apple's s 174 00:12:55,480 --> 00:12:59,639 so security things that they do like on 175 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:05,079 iPhones this works but they 176 00:13:02,639 --> 00:13:11,240 specifically go out of their way to prevent you from doing it on the Mac 177 00:13:06,680 --> 00:13:13,639 Studio now technically we have not tried 178 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:18,800 just putting a higher capacity single module in it's possible that might work 179 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:24,240 has anyone tried that yet other people have tried it and it's never worked 180 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:30,040 unreal because you know Apple has the tools to change this right there is 181 00:13:26,839 --> 00:13:33,199 absolutely no way that Apple produces 182 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:37,600 these main boards and hard loocks them 183 00:13:33,199 --> 00:13:41,680 forever to a particular capacitive flash 184 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:44,880 module in fact the fact that there is no 185 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:46,800 logic on the flash module is even less 186 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:52,800 reason for this to be locked down in any way because the actual controller any 187 00:13:49,959 --> 00:13:59,519 any security reason that they might provide for doing this is all on the so 188 00:13:56,120 --> 00:14:02,759 anyway they're just flash it's just ones 189 00:13:59,519 --> 00:14:05,880 and zeros I was almost ready to be 190 00:14:02,759 --> 00:14:07,680 impressed now I'm just super pissed off 191 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:12,120 and you should be too whether you're an Apple customer or not an Apple customer 192 00:14:09,639 --> 00:14:15,720 this kind of crap affects you because as Apple does so does the rest of the 193 00:14:14,079 --> 00:14:20,759 industry you know what's particularly cool about this um nothing you know like 194 00:14:18,680 --> 00:14:26,079 the 980 Pro how much do you think it is to go from half a terabyte to a terabyte 195 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:30,279 I don't know like 40 bucks 50 bucks it's 80 bucks for them how much do you think 196 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:34,959 it is for apple on this I don't know $150 $200 197 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:40,440 $200 and that is why apple does not want you 198 00:14:37,519 --> 00:14:45,040 upgrading your own flash module that and you those are the only two reasons man 199 00:14:42,720 --> 00:14:49,639 in researching this I read some of the worst possible takes you know you got 200 00:14:47,320 --> 00:14:53,360 people talking about how well the M1 is architect different and that's why they 201 00:14:51,399 --> 00:14:58,639 need to do it this way as though Apple didn't design it from the ground up as 202 00:14:56,440 --> 00:15:03,240 though Apple had a gun to their head that they have to design it like this 203 00:15:00,720 --> 00:15:07,800 there's nothing else to do Apple locks it through firmware there's no reason 204 00:15:06,000 --> 00:15:12,639 they have to do that but they do it anyway and unless their customers make a 205 00:15:10,759 --> 00:15:15,240 great big stink about it they're just going to keep on doing this kind of 206 00:15:13,959 --> 00:15:19,880 thing by the way when I say they customers I mean me too I just bought 207 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:24,800 two Mac Studios am I not a customer tell you who you should be a customer of our 208 00:15:21,639 --> 00:15:26,680 sponsor Squarespace need a website but 209 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:30,160 don't have the knowhow Squarespace makes it easy there's a wide selection of 210 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