Transcend 512GB JetDrive Lite 330 MacBook Pro 14" & 16" 2021 & MacBook Pro Retina Display 13" 12-E15 TS512GJDL330

Back in November, I upgraded my laptop to a 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina. It’s the first time in many years that I’ve had a brand new machine with the latest technology. It’s been a wonderful upgrade for me, but I did make one large sacrifice – hard drive space. The model of MBP that I could afford was the model with the 128GB hard drive. For some, that’s plenty of space. But, for someone who takes many pictures and tests lots of different software, the hard drive space gets eaten up quickly. Even though I felt that I could compensate for the lack of hard drive space with various cloud storage and thumb drives, my fiancé found a better solution for me – the JetDrive Lite by Transcend.Transcend, developer of various types of hard drive storage, obviously recognized this storage issue for Apple users, too, and released a special line of expansion storage to assist. The JetDrive Lite is apart of that line. It’s small, sleek and fits right in with the Apple design.JetDrive Lite is designed to be seamless with the MacBook Pro Retina. It fits into your memory card slot, but sits flush with the edge of the computer. It adds the storage space you need without adding any bulk.Installation of this little device is a breeze. You can plug it into your laptop and start using it out of the box. Since it’s 128GB of space, you can store thousands of photos or songs. Plus, the JetDrive is blazing fast. It’s built with the highest quality MLC flash and can read speeds up to 95MB/s and write speeds up to 60MB/s.Perhaps one of the nicest features of the JetDrive Lite is that it’s tough. It’s life proof. The cards are manufactured using advanced COB technology, making them resistant to water, dust and shock. So no matter what your lifestyle is like, you can rest assured that your storage is safe and secure — even if it ends up in the mud.Having the JetDrive as an ancillary hard drive has been a wonderful addition to my work flow. Even though it’s hearty enough to handle media files, I tend to keep documents only on it. One of the things I think is really cool about this device is that it is made specifically for Apple products.If you need extra storage space that is nearly invisible, I can highly recommend JetDrive Lite by Transcend."This product was received at a free or discounted price in exchange for my review. I am a technology journalist and pride myself on providing fair and honest reviews. Please feel free to ask any questions you might have."

Works great, I’ve even installed apps and games to it that all run just fine from the card. Way cheaper than paying for the extra storage from Apple at purchase.

I got this today and so have not used it for a huge amount of time, but initial impressions are great. I booted up my Mac Pro, plugged it in, and it mounted instantly. I shut down and restarted my computer several times, or woke it from sleep mode, and the device was mounted and worked properly each time (I know some reviewers had said it would't mount coming out of sleep, etc). This device is VERY small, smaller than I was expecting, and as others have said, is nearly flush to the laptop's side when plugged in - so not a drive you would want to unplug and remove often. It's very unobtrusive, and has a huge storage capacity for its physical size. I plan on leaving mine in as a permanent extra storage device. I copied several large folders with files in them to mine, and data transferred quickly and seamlessly. Seems like a great product so far.Update - I liked the 128 GB version so much I bought the 256 GB one to replace it, since the first one was almost full. I had to pry the original one out with my fingernail, which took some effort (which is a good thing - it fits snugly and there is no chance it will fall out on its own). I copied all my files to an external drive and then to the new JetDrive330, and everything works perfectly. I use it mostly for my growing movie library (videos and movies which take up a huge amount of space) and pictures There's an ingenious Mac app called Tunespan that allows you to store media files in iTunes in different locations and play them from iTunes transparently, so this has worked out perfectly for me, since my MacBook Pro only contains a 256 GB internal drive, and I was effectively able to double that.

Hi, I am a program developer and need fast access to my data. This drive is amazing and everything but not fast. Slows down my whole system when fast I/O is needed. I would recommend it to people but not to ones who needs good I/O rate. I would advise the seller to write I/O at the title, as same for other sellers too in Amazon.Wish I could change it. Took me a while to realize the issue.

I have a M3 16-in Max MacBook Pro. This wasn't technically made for this specific macbook Pro but it works perfectly flush all the same. I almost returned it because I forgot I had a 400 GB mic SD card and another adapter that also flush mounted but that card was much slower than this one so for the price and a nice flush mount I use it for my time machine backup of my documents and downloads folders. It won't back up my whole 1 TB hard drive but I don't need everything backed up anyway mainly just documents in a few other folders and it does it very fast due to the speed of the card and memory chip. Actually there is no card it's all soldered so the speed of the chip is great and the flush mount you can never go wrong with. Fits flush but all you need is a good thumbnail or toothpick or something to get the card out with ease if you ever need to for whatever reason. You can't stuff it in so far that it'll get stuck or anything just don't force it in. Slide it in slowly yet slightly firm until it's flush and then leave it alone and it'll mount right up on your desktop after it's been formatted properly with disc utility