Finally a SSD to update the MacBook Air V1 ?

For reasons that we have never understood, Apple made the choice to use very specific discs in first MacBook Air. In addition to the very rare 1,8" format and 5mm thickness motivated by the size of the machine, they use an interface PATA Zif that they shared with… the iPod Classic. Apart from Apple very few manufacturers used this, and at the time when MacBook Air was released, almost all had already moved to SATA.

This is the reason why we could never find for you a substitute for the original discs, except for the slow SSD 64 GB (compared to the current standards) or worse still, the feeble 80 GB of the…. iPod.

The solution could come from Photofast. a Japanese company that is currently creating a buzz. It has just announced a new range of SSD disks in the 1,8" format and a thickness of 5mm, exactly what we need. 

Among the various variations of these products we finds a disk with format ZIF PATA, Bingo! And the icing on the cake.. it is announced to have a data flow of 100 MB/s in reading and writing and exists up to 128 GB.

Alas, we could not advise you to acquire one since nobody has taken the risk to make a test. But we are certain that someone living in Japan will quickly do so since there is strong desire by the majority of the owners of MacBook Air V1 to change disks.