I have been digging round on-line for a solution to this and I can not seem to discover one.
The Mac Professional (2019; 7,1) comes with a inventory SSD that, due to the T2 chip, is required to ensure that the machine in addition.
Nonetheless, I’ve additionally seen plenty of posts about Mac Professional homeowners deciding that the SATA speeds of the default SSD aren’t quick sufficient, after which using a unique SSD linked by way of PCIe as their main macOS boot drive. I wish to go this route, however am a bit stumped.
What I have never seen anybody talk about is what occurs should you do something to the inventory drive apart from have a bootable macOS on it. Are you able to wipe it, reformat it, use it for Time Machine, take macOS off it completely, and so on… with out bricking the machine?
So, does anybody know what all I will do with this inventory SSD and hold the machine booting easily?
As an illustration, can I:
- Take away macOS completely and hold it as a storage drive? (The drive stays within the machine, however wiped and repurposed.)
- Reformat many of the drive however go away the unique bootable partition on a sliver of it?
Ordinarily I might be sport to experiment, however provided that monkeying with this SSD can brick the pc and there is no straightforward repair should you get it mistaken, I might love to listen to from y’all’s expertise.
