Transcend 128GB JetDrive Lite 350 Storage Expansion Card for 15-Inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display (TS128GJDL350)

My MacBook (15" Retina Pro) has a 512GB SSD, which is blindingly fast but not quit large enough for my stuff, my photos AND my iTunes library. I used to store my iTunes library (or the bulk of it) on a separate USB drive which helped, but meant carrying the drive as well if I wanted to use it. Along comes Transcend's JetDrie Lite, 128GB of storage. "Perfect" I though, "I'll stick my photo library on there, and I can bring my iTunes library back to my SSD". The JetDrive itself is pretty small physically, and comes well packaged. Installation is easy, just slot it into the Card Reader slot. Removal is easy too, there is a black flange which presses flush with the side of the MacBook, and you can prise the drive out using a fingernail easily enough should you want to remove it - personally I like the fit-and-forget aspect, it's in there and I have no plans to remove it (until I sell this machine). The drive comes pre formatted but for MSDOS which means it is usable but for Macs you are better off reformatting it to native format. Which is fast and easy to do, and the JetDrive instructions tell you what to do if you are unsure of how to use Disk Utility. Formatting done, it was time to copy my photo library across (all 120GB of it), which took maybe 10-15 minutes but once done was done. I have to say, the drive is working well. Both iPhoto and Aperture use it with no problems, everything Just Works. As expected. Speed-wise, do NOT expect SSD or even HD performance! This is sat in a card reader and is rather slower. It did a comparison of performance using BlackMagic's Disk Speed Test on my internal SSD, an external USB3.0 had drive, a Thunderbolt external hard drive and the JetDrive, using the same settings for each, and got the following average results. Internal SSD write 280MB/s, read 395MB/s External USB write 90MB/s, read 90MB/s Thunderbolt write 115MB/s, read 125MB/s JetDrive write 5MB/s, read 50MB/s As you can see, it is a LOT slower than the others, especially at writing. At reading, it's just over half the speed of my external USB3.0 hard drive, which means it's certainly acceptable in terms of read performance. Write is not too bad if you are not doing it often. So for my application, using it to store my photo library, it's a great fit - the library is read FAR more often than written to, and reads are far larger than writes, so the performance is OK. And a lot more convenient than having to remember to carry round an external drive! Reliability is of course an important factor. When I first installed the drive and was copying files across, the drive suddenly disappeared. Remove it physically and reinstall it and all was well, and there's been no repeat of that one-off occurrence, which I put down to the physical connection (perhaps there was a bit of dust or something in the CF slot, as I do cart the laptop around some pretty strange places). Since then, it has been rock-solid, and I've been using it for just over a month so far. TimeMachine automatically picked it up and added it to its backups, which is helpful. Overall I'd definitely recommend the Transcend JetDrive Lite, it does the job, it is unobtrusive, performance is acceptable, and for me it is making use of a card reader slot which I never otherwise used.

One of the few deficiencies associated with solid state drive equipped Macs is the comparatively small size of internal storage. In an era where 500 GB is the norm and even 1 TB is common, a 256 GB drive is small. When I bought my 15 inch Mac Book Pro with Retina Display, I rationalized that with iCloud and other cloud storage options the loss of half of my hard drive would be find compensation in the increased speed and reliability of a SSD. To some extent those assumptions were correct. Nonetheless I often found myself managing drive utilization trying to keep at least 10% of the total storage space open. Transcend provides a solution. For slightly less than $80 and a Jet Drive Lite 350 I have increased my drive space by fifty percent. The Transcend Jet Drive Lite is essentially a High Capacity SD card which installs into one of the existing SD ports on MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. There are four different model cards, and you should carefully consider the chart before ordering. Each card is tailored for specific machines and is designed to be inserted into the port and lie more of less flush against the case, not sticking out like a normal SD card. The normal card can be spring ejected. This is not so with the Jet Drive Lite. It is very difficult to remove, and since it is in effect a secondary SSD that permanency is a virtue. I have inadvertently "ejected" the card fin the Finder only to discover it simply disconnects. The simplest recovery mode is to log out and then log back in and the drive is automatically recognized. The card comes in a box, with warranty information, and nothing else. The limited lifetime warranty, if you can read it without an electron microscope, is quite good. You should make sure however that your card data on it is being backed up regularly. I use Time Capsule and the setting on installation excluded the Jet Drive Lite. I think the reason for this is that the drive appears to your Mac to be no more than a temporary SD card and SD cards are not backed up unless you change your settings. So having a card and an open port I pressed it in. Since the card doesn't eject, there is no "click" associated with my effort. However an icon appeared immediately on my desktop, and I knew my MBP was reading the drive. My first thought was that I would move all my photos and videos to the Transcend Jet Drive Lite 350. Immediately I received a message- "The destination disk is not properly formatted." Indeed it was not, and that is peculiar. We are looking at a product designed exclusively for newer Apple laptops, and the card was FAT formatted. It takes less than a minute to reformat the card to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Once the disk was reformatted I moved my entire Aperture Library to the Jet Drive Lite . I am a lawyer, not a technician, but it seemed to me that the transfer speed was quite fast, at least as fast as my USB 3.0 flash drive and possibly as fast as a Thunderbolt device. All in all, the Transcend Jet Drive Lite meets a lot of my needs. The price and the huge capacity should justify you giving it a try.

Does not work!! My MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) doesn't even acknowledge that the SD card is even inside! Went to disk utility and it's not even there... Furthermore, it's nearly impossible to remove. I spent 10 minutes trying to remove it from my computer by prying at it with my fingernails. I put it back in hoping it might work again, and now it's stuck in my computer again, I've kept trying to remove it with my fingernails but I couldn't get it out for over half an hour. How am I supposed to even return a product if I can't even get it out of my computer. I am a regular Amazon shopper, and this is the first time a product truly disappointed me. Would not recommend this product for MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) owners.

Una scheda di memoria che si dimentica di averla. Entra completamente nel vano SSD del vostro macbook pro retina 15" Late 2013 (fate attenzione al modello del vostro mac prima di effettuare l'acquisto), e non influisce sull'estetica del portatile. La scheda di memoria al primo inserimento deve essere formattata nel formato Mac OS X Journaled, poiché arriva nel formato FAT32. La velocità in realtà non è quella dichiarata dalla Trascend, in scrittura raggiunge i 60 MB/s contro i 90 dichiarati, e il lettura circa 45 MB/s che sono delle prestazioni apprezzabili considerando che si tratta pur sempre di una scheda di memoria. La capacità da 128 GB consente di farne svariati usi, dal contenere file multimediali all'utilizzo come disco di backup. Personalmente la utilizzo con time machine come disco di backup portatile quando mi trovo fuori sede, e sono rimasto ampiamente soddisfatto dalle prestazioni di questa scheda di espansione. Unico appunto che mi sento di muovere, è il fatto che dopo l'inserimento non è semplicissima la rimozione della scheda, poiché aderisce talmente bene al bordo del Macbook che si deve utilizzare un oggetto affilato (tipo una lima) per fare leva se non si hanno le unghie abbastanza lunghe, sicuramente sarebbe stata più azzeccata la scelta di un accessorio di estrazione abbinato ovviamente ad una vano per l'inserimento dello stesso (Tipo il Nifty drive per intenderci). Nel complesso, si tratta di un ottimo prodotto che mi sento di consigliare a tutti i possessori di un portatile della Apple, avere un sostanzioso incremento della memoria interna con una scheda di espansione, la ritengo un'ottima scelta. PS Avevo acquistato questa scheda di memoria frettolosamente, sbagliando la compatibilità con il mio macbook pro retina che è il late 2013. Voglio dare altre 5 stelle al servizio resi di Amazon che è intuitivo e super veloce! Grandi come sempre! Amazon for life!

Macbock Pro Retina 15inchで使用しています。 アクセス速度の計測はしていません。iPhoneなどのライブラリ領域として割り当てています。 MBPにはめてみると、ほとんど出っ張りがなく、全く引っかかりがないところがお気に入りです。 機会があるかわかりませんが、itunesのライブラリをほかのPCなどに移動したいときは、 このカードごと移動すればいいので簡単になると思います。

Suddenly stopped working after few months.

Llevo ya mas de una mes con ella, y ni un fallo ni desconexión, sin software adicional, con OSX Yosemite actualizado. La velocidad en general muy bueno, puntas de 95mb/s de lectura.

写真や音楽をこちらに移動しました。 性能、スタイルともに想像通り。これは素晴らしいですね！