A:AnswerAny SSD would give the best performance if cooled, however I have had 0 problems with overheating with this SSD Withought a heat sink. So yeah it should work.
A:AnswerI don’t have a heatsink installed and have had no issues. With that said, I have a full size tower with plenty of airflow. For a laptop I would personally install a heatsink.
A:AnswerYours uses SATA, this one is PCIe 2.0. you should be able to Google SSD upgrades for earlyn2013 MacBook pro, and find what you need. A company advertised upgrades just for your situation. Good luck!
A:AnswerYes the current ssd in your laptop and this one are both 2280 m.2 ssd's. So yes they will be compatible. Though you will need to either clone the drive or have another way to reinstall windows.
A:AnswerI am not aware of any adapters. It may also be cheaper (and easier) to just get an external SSD. These are purely made for NVMe interface on motherboards.
A:AnswerYou need to check in the manual to see if you’re motherboard supports pcie3 m.2 NVMe. If it does also check any astrix or footnotes to see if there is any additional information. The drive is backwards compatible
A:AnswerGet a 1 trybte sad - move ur files off hard drive and when done u will boot from new motherboard sad with ur old hard drive as storage - toss much faster
