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Transcend Debuts JetDrive SSD Upgrade Kits Up to 960GB for MacBook Air, Retina Macbook Pro

tivoboy said:
hmm, I wonder if the 725's are any different.
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Improbable - the difference is only about having a 1mm shorter PCB, not redesigning the product technologically. Just a slight adjustment of the PCB cutter...

tivoboy said:
Were those specs from your post, reported ratings or tested ratings?
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The ratings are taken from the stickers on each product.
 
JD725 on Amazon UK

Just a heads up that the 725 is available to order on amazon UK :D
But they're not in stock and theres no info on when they'll be getting them in stock :( . Still don't understand why its a lot more expensive than the US amazon (almost 200 dollars more) :mad:
 
I'm thinking about purchasing the 725 model for my MBPR early 2013, but I have some questions.

I noticed that the Jetdrive Toolbox is required to obtain the fastest possible speeds. Can this program be used once in the beginning to optimize the system and never be used again? Or do I need to keep it running in the background at all times to keep the speeds up?

Also, the only use I can see me needing my old SSD for would be to use it as a Windows drive. I noticed that Bootcamp does not allow Windows to be installed on an external drive, but I was wondering if this workaround would work:

I have my Mac backed up onto my time Machine. Can I completely wipe my stock SSD, install windows onto it from Bootcamp, and partition the entire stock SSD to Windows? Then I would take the stock drive out, install the Transcend SSD, transfer all of my data from my Time machine onto the Transcend SSD, and then use my old SSD as a USB3.0 bootable windows drive? Would this work? If so, how would the speeds over USB 3.0 work for gaming?
 
The Transcend JetDrive toolbox is used mainly to enable TRIM. As far as acceleration goes, I sorta doubt it. Folks have been having trouble activating TRIM using the software, so many, have resorted to Trim Enabler. I have used Trim Enabler since I put an SSD in my Mac Pro. I highly endorse it.

Lou
 
I have decided to install Windows 8.1 on my current SSD via Bootcamp. When my Transcend drive comes in, will my Windows partition carry over to my new SSD? Or will I need to do a fresh install on the new drive? Also, will my stock SSD connected via USB be compatible with Windows software? I have decided I want to use that drive to hold all of my Windows games and play them over USB. If I have to reformat the old SSD to be compatible with Windows, I will.
 
I'm actually wondering the same thing, i have my 725 all ready to clone over, but am waiting for the OSX update to download so i can boot into the recovery partition...
From the installation video/instructions it looks like you just copy the partition, i was hoping to copy the entire disk.... If Disk Utility can't do it i might give WinClone a try, it's advertised to do what I want.... i think...
 
Alright, I'm up and running on my 725!
Here's the quick and dirty of how to get a dual booted system (bootcamp) running on the JetDrive.

-Put jetdrive into USB enclosure
-Turn off computer
-Plug in usb enclosure
-Boot into recovery partition (or in my case due to the mavericks issue, and not wanting to re-install, hold cmd+r while booting, and hop into internet recovery)
-Open up the Disk utility
-Create 3 (yes 3) partitions on the JetDrive, the first will be for OSX, the second will be for your BOOTCAMP image, the third will be for your bootcamp image (i could have done it straight drive-to-drive, but only realized this afterwards), Make sure #2 is a FAT32 partition
-"Restore" your "Mac HD" to the first partition of the JetDrive
-Reboot, hold option while it's booting, boot off of the JetDrive Mac HD
-Go get WinClone (http://twocanoes.com/winclone/), it's $30, whatever you just spent $600 on a SSD...
-Open up winclone, and select your BOOTCAMP partition on the left side, and cut it to an image on the 3rd partition you made (Or, if you can get it to work, clone straight to the JetDrive BOOTCAMP partition). The reason i went w/ the image route is because i didn't have the 2nd partition formatted, so it didn't show up in the winclone menu as a destination.
-Hit go, make your image (or just clone away)
-When the image is done, make sure the middle partition is formatted FAT32, once it is, it should show up in WinClone.
-Select the image (on the left) and select the JetDrive BOOTCAMP partition as the destination, and hit go, this takes a while.
-Now you should have 3 partitions on the JetDrive, the "Restored" OSX partition from Disk Utility, the BOOTCAMP partition from WinClone, and a partition with an image file on it.
-Go ahead and delete the 3rd partition with the image file (if you want to).
-At this point it should be done, you can shutdown the system and swap the drives. I found that i could not successfully boot into the bootcamp partition via USB, but it worked fine when installed into the system.
-Note that the first time you fire up windows it will most likely run chkdsk
-If you deleted that third partition, you can expand your windows partition to fill the rest of the drive, if you're going to do this DO IT IN WINDOWS, you can make things very angry if you expand the partition via OSX with a windows installation on the partition.

And that's it... or at least how i did it and have it working very well! Disk I/O in OSX seems MUCH faster than the stock SSD.
 
Trim Support Yosemite 10.10

Your latest version 1.6 to enable TRIM support fails in the latest Yosemite DP and Public Beta. How do we enable TRIM in Yosemite 10.10?
 
So I put my new Jetdrive in today and everything is great so far. The only problem I am having is that my old SSD is hooked up to my USB 3.0 hub and my Macbook is not recognizing it. If I plug it straight into my computer it works fine, but I would prefer to have it with my hub. Everything else plugged into it worked right out of the box, does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this?

Edit: I retract this statement. I forgot I unplugged my hub when I installed the new SSD. I just plugged it back in and everything works fine :p
 
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flowrider said:
Cindori's Trim Enabler doesn't work in Yosemite either.

Lou
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They have some threads and blog articles about some workarounds for Cindoris Trim Enabler in Yosemite, but I would really just like to use the Transcend tools. Does anyone know how bad the performance is without TRIM enabled?
 
For all those using:

sudo nvram boot-args="kext-dev-mode=1"

As described here to disable the kernel extension signing requirement in Yosemite, bear in mind that if you ever zap the NVRAM as described here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379

You will once again render your system unbootable if you have TRIM enabled . . .

A better solution would be to add "kext-dev-mode=1" to the kernel flags section of /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist.

This will preserve the setting even if you zap the NVRAM.

I'm not sure if com.apple.Boot.plist is reset to default when you update OS X, however, so it might be prudent to use both the NVRAM and com.apple.Boot.plist methods prior to update to ensure that your Mac will boot after the update.

Since it seems like this kernel extension signing requirement is a new security feature that will also be included in the public release, it seems like the best way to enable TRIM on 3rd party SSDs on Yosemite will ultimately be for either drive manufacturers to make their own signed kernel extensions specifically enabling TRIM for their drives or for utility makers to make their own signed kernel extensions broadly enabling TRIM on 3rd party SSDs . . .

Modifying Apple's kernel extensions is no-go now . . .
 
running yosemite?

Anyone running yosemite with these SSD's, or has transcend tried it. Seems that TRIM enabler doesn't work, or is disabled for lack of 10.10 support, so wondering if the Transcend tool kit works to enable TRIM support?
 
tivoboy said:
Anyone running yosemite with these SSD's, or has transcend tried it. Seems that TRIM enabler doesn't work, or is disabled for lack of 10.10 support, so wondering if the Transcend tool kit works to enable TRIM support?
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My drive still hasn't come in yet, but I would think that Transcend Toolkit wouldn't work either . . .

The issue is a change in how OS X handles modified kernel extensions as described here: http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comme...e_installing_yosemite_beta_be_sure_to/cj6xbvq

Tools will have to be updated to support this change.

The author of Trim Enabler is targeting long-lasting support for the official release of Yosemite and suggests that, if you want Trim support on 3rd party SSDs, you stick with Mavericks for the time being . . .
http://www.cindori.org/forums/topic/heads-up-osx-10-10-beta-no-go/page/4/#post-24076

The author has every intention of supporting Yosemite once it is officially released:
http://www.cindori.org/trim-in-os-x-yosemite/
 
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Andyjo said:
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And that's it... or at least how i did it and have it working very well! Disk I/O in OSX seems MUCH faster than the stock SSD.
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Hello! Sort of on the fence about buying one of those.. Can you run a diskspeed test such as blackmagic or AJA to see what the consecutive read/writes are on that drive?
 
Boomhowler said:
Hello! Sort of on the fence about buying one of those.. Can you run a diskspeed test such as blackmagic or AJA to see what the consecutive read/writes are on that drive?
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Not at home now, so don't have access to MBPr. I did run BlackMagic after the 720 install, I recall it was pegged in both R/W at ~500MB/s.

BTW the 720 did fit, just barely. I can't get the Transcend TRIM to work with Lion OS though. Transcend wasn't any help just suggesting that I load the latest OS which I'm not going to do right now.

Mike
 
Has anybody else noticed significant battery decrease after install? I'm not sure what TRIM is, but would enabling that help?
 
Go go go

If you've been on the fence, now is the time to jump. Amazon just dropped the price of the 720 and 725 480GB models for the 2012 rMBP to 269$, another 100$ off. Almost a no brainer at that point.

If could be that memory prices are dropping that fast or it could be that the new rMBP has twice the current SSD space as before, whatever I'll take it.
 
Looks like an across the board cut. I just checked the JetDrive 500 used in the MBA, and the same price drop at Amazon. I could have waited, but glad I didn't.

Lou
 
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