Transcend 128GB JDL330 JetDrive Lite 330 Expansion Card for MacBook Pro 2021 up to 95/75 MB/s TS128GJDL330

Bought this for my rMBP Early 2015 as I wanted to save a bit of cash, so I went with the 128GB model thinking this would save me about £120. Does exactly that, instead of spending obscene amounts extra via Apple for little difference I got this and have been extremely happy.No installations, Mac picks it up straight away as an external drive that you can save things to (although I've not yet attempted to save any applications nor do I know if you can- potentially if you install it first on the built in hard drive, copy it to the JetDrive and then create a shortcut for it on the dock?) and does not seem to have any issues when going to sleep/waking up. I did encounter the Storage Card 'not being ejected properly' once when I had closed the lid on my laptop that resulted in the card not being recognised however that hasn't been repeated since. All I did was pull the card out and push it back in again to get the laptop to recognise it again.Read and write speeds have been very good, not as fast as my USB 3.0 storage cards or hard drives but when there are no cables lying around and getting in my way and the save is happening on the laptop itself I was not in any way bothered about it taking the slightest bit longer. To get the best speeds out of this device I did have to reformat the card to the Mac Journaled partition as many reviewers have already suggested you do when you first get this. Simple process through Disk Utility and Google!In terms of form factor, it fits flush to the rMBP with only the smallest of protrusions. To be entirely honest, without this tiny protrusion you simply would not be able to pull the card out at all, which as I've mentioned above can be a helpful fix.All in all, does what it says on the tin, and has been extremely helpful for that little bump in memory. I would highly recommend!

This is not my first of these - I previously owned the 128Gb model, but after realising that it was just too small, I upgraded to the 256Gb model, which is (obviously) twice the size.Speed on my 2015 13" macbook pro is very good considering it's essentially a cut down sd card. Blackmagic speed test rates it around 35MB/s write and an impressive 90MB/s read (see screenshot). Clearly not in SSD territory, but good enough to work well as a storage drive. I store most of my Steam library on it and games load quickly and take up no space on my internal drive.I used the software that comes with it initially to unmount the drive when sleeping and re-mount when waking, but I was having issues with battery drain, so I switched to using Jettison, which seems to drain the battery less. I do still experience a certain amount of battery drain (quite variable), but it's possible this is not due to the drive.A much much cheaper option that a) upgrading the SSD or b) buying a new macbook! Also much handier than an external ssd (been there too) - mine had a habit of getting knocked and dismounting.Only slight annoyance is that obviously you lose the sd card slot - easily remedied by buying an external USB3 card reader for a few pounds.

When I got my macbook, I thought I'd buy a 1TB SD card to leave in the slot as a backup option when I run out of space. I didn't realise until too late that Apple only puts a part-depth SD card slot on the computer, so it sticks out - which makes it useless for travel because it might get snapped off.This product is the solution, being an under-sized SD card which is deliberately sized to avoid protruding from the side of the macbook (there's just enough outside that you can get a nail under it to remove it again). And... fine.The main disappointment I have is that it's pretty slow. Notably, for something that's specifically going in a macbook slot that's UHS-II, it's a UHS-I card. Maybe going faster would have caused heat issues, since there's nowhere outside the macbook to vent the heat, but it's a little disappointing.Otherwise, it's as described (and tests as having the capacity it says on the tin, which isn't true of all flash storage on Amazon). So if an extra TB of "oh dear I took too many picture on holiday" is worth having internal, rather than manually copying them to an external device, it's the only game in town.

It’s surprisingly important that an item you use all the time looks as good as you can get. Specially an Apple product, the company associated with good simple modern design.So this is an SD card that fits in the MacBook Pro slot and doesn’t stick out. That’s it. Nothing else. It works, it’s flush and it’s in my MacBook.

Excellent way to expand storage capacity on an older macbook. Slots in easily and doesn't stick out like a regular card, a bit fiddly to remove but that's not a big deal as it's more or less permanent

With some reservations, I just purchased one of these (128GB) for my 2012 MBP Retina. The laptop has a 250GB internal SSD drive, which I have rapidly filled with photos and music. My intention was to move my iTunes library from the internal disc to this SD card. Thus freeing up 120GB of the internal drive.On opening the device, and inserting it I was surprised to see it fits just about flush. It protudes approximately 0.5mm from the aluminium body, which is fantastic. It looks really good.The next step is to format the thing to Mac OS Extended Journalled filesystem, which takes seconds using the Disk Utility.Then I migrated the iTunes folder to it. I was expecting to see very poor performance, having read some previous comments. I'll start by saying that the 120GB was copied over in approximately 50 minutes. Which I don't think is at all bad. Using iTunes after this? Well, on album view, if you scroll REALLY FAST, it sometimes lags with displaying album art. Thats about it. Performance is perfectly adequate for holding your music.I really like this. Its a relatively inexpensive way to breath a bit of life and squeeze a few more years from the laptop (which is still the best computer I have ever used).

Excelente producto. 100% recomendable para aumentar la capacidad de una Mac Book Pro 2024

La mejor forma de expandir la capacidad de almacenamiento de tu mac solo sacrificando tu puerto sd.La tarjeta de 1TB te da bastante capacidad extra para poder alamacenar un sin fin de archivos.la transferencia(escritura-lectura) no es la mejor pero recuerda que solo es para tenerlos como respaldo, no para trabajar directamente desde ella.Sin duda una buena opcion de almacenamiento extra.Del tamaño de una tarjeta SD que ajusta perfectamente en la computadora sin estorbar en los demas puertos, transferencia de datos aceptable

Not blazing fast, but good enough for passive storage. A bit tricky to eject but just requires a firm push. Nearly doubles my on board storage capacity.

La utilicé para una macbook pro M2 y funcionó muy bien. El detalle que tengo es que al reiniciar la laptop aveces no la reconoce, hay que sacarla y volverla a conectar. Fuera de eso cumple muy bien

Incredibly easy to add 256 Gb to your MB Pro. Works great!