XPS9360-macOS NVMe VS. SATA M.2 Power Consumption

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?

Sep 26 '19 03:09 kevinshroff

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

Oct 27 '19 13:10 Mateo1234454545

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.

Oct 27 '19 14:10 the-darkvoid

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)

Dec 18 '19 16:12 rostopira

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

Feb 18 '20 16:02 rostopira

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

Mar 08 '20 10:03 rostopira

@rostopira,

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

May 19 '20 17:05 the-darkvoid