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

Hi, what happens if your original SSD has a bootcamp partition? Will both partitions (OS X and Win7) be restored over to the new drive when you click Restore as shown in the video clip?
 
Leonavice said:
Hi, what happens if your original SSD has a bootcamp partition? Will both partitions (OS X and Win7) be restored over to the new drive when you click Restore as shown in the video clip?
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The disk utility clone feature just applies to OSX partitions.
 
Leonavice said:
Hi, what happens if your original SSD has a bootcamp partition? Will both partitions (OS X and Win7) be restored over to the new drive when you click Restore as shown in the video clip?
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Hi Leonavice,

Just a reminder that the installation video is just one of many ways you can install a JetDrive kit (3rd party cloning software, OSX Internet Recovery with a clean install of OSX, etc), but it is the recommended method for the majority of users.

Hope that helps!
 
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mac1984user said:
What's the deal with VAT when you order from amazon.de? Are you consistently stuck with import VAT charges?
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You pay UK VAT in place of German VAT. It's calculated at checkout. No import duties (we're all in the EU). There might be postage costs (there aren't to some countries from Amazon De), but it's more then €20 so probably not. The way to check is to try to buy something sold by Amazon De (not the associated sellers on the marketplace) and see what the total cost is for checkout (don't opt for any faster post options). Also I suggest you buy in € as you will get a better rate from your credit card supplier than the €:£ rate offered by Amazon.
 
@ transcend: Shut up and take my money:D
there is demand, i placed an order for the 960 but its out of stock already, so i guess there is demand!
 
The shipping time/availability on the TS480GJDM500 keeps changing from "in stock" to available "April 27" to now "Ships in 2-4 Weeks".

Is this because of high demand and many people buying, causing supplies to change?

Can you confirm what the current shipping time is, and if one is ordered right now if it will take the 4 week time period to ship?

Thanks!
 
I recently bought a maxed out Macbook Pro 15 Retina, with the 1TB SSD drive. I paid though the arse for it, but once you've gone pci-e, you can never go back to plain old SATA. Almost 1gbps read AND write speeds, that's pretty sweet.
 
lighthouse_man said:
The installation steps in the video will probably yield an internal drive without a recovery partition.
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Nope... a Disk Util clone like shown in that video will also move over the 650MB recovery partition.

The only thing I would say is missing in the video is after that first boot to the new SSD, one needs to go into System Prefs Startup Disk pane and select the new SSD as the boot drive. Otherwise the system will boot very slow because it will search around for all available boot sources rather than going straight to the new SSD.

Nice product.
 
I've been searching for your product at amazon.ca without success. When will it be offered in Canada? Will any other online stores carry it?

Thanks
 
Can it slow down the mac due to the size?

I have very little experience with getting after market SSDs, and I want to upgrade my 128gb to 480gb. Can it slow down the performance just because the size is much larger, considering the indexing is ON?

Also would it lower the battery life as well?

I have the Macbook Pro Early 2013 running Maverick.
 
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Nice… but I wonder why the drive does not come already installed in the case so you could just plug it in, back up and then do all the disassembly and reassembly? Would make it one step easier.

But nice none the less.
 
OK, so the 960GB drive is coming next month or so at a nice price. I guess my only concern would be the possibility that Apple would announce new MacBook Pro Retinas at WWDC on June 2.:)
 
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Weaselboy said:
Nope... a Disk Util clone like shown in that video will also move over the 650MB recovery partition.

The only thing I would say is missing in the video is after that first boot to the new SSD, one needs to go into System Prefs Startup Disk pane and select the new SSD as the boot drive. Otherwise the system will boot very slow because it will search around for all available boot sources rather than going straight to the new SSD.

Nice product.
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Hi Weaselboy,
Thanks for the suggestion! We'll add this into our instructions as well.

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vik071 said:
I've been searching for your product at amazon.ca without success. When will it be offered in Canada? Will any other online stores carry it?

Thanks
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Hello vik071,
We're working with all of our partners to bring this product to their respective markets ASAP. We understand there's quite a bit of interest and demand. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

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spera23 said:
The shipping time/availability on the TS480GJDM500 keeps changing from "in stock" to available "April 27" to now "Ships in 2-4 Weeks".

Is this because of high demand and many people buying, causing supplies to change?

Can you confirm what the current shipping time is, and if one is ordered right now if it will take the 4 week time period to ship?

Thanks!
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Hello spera23,
I can't give you an exact date, but I can tell you that everyone here at Transcend is working hard to keep up with demand.

Thank you for your patience and understanding!
 
Hi TranscendInfo,

I'm actually much more interested in random read and write performance. Could you give us a few numbers of those? Like 4kb random read and write?

Thanks
 
Leonavice said:
Hi, what happens if your original SSD has a bootcamp partition? Will both partitions (OS X and Win7) be restored over to the new drive when you click Restore as shown in the video clip?
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Winclone is great for this. I've even used it to clone a bootcamp partition to an external thunderbolt ssd and then was able to boot windows off thunderbolt. I mainly use vmware fusion now but still highly recommend Winclone.
 
Sweet - just ordered a 480 GB for my late 2010 13". Estimated ship date is 5/14/2014. I'm curious as to what other people are seeing in terms of delivery date if they also bought on Amazon.

I'll share my delivery date and install experience once it arrives.
 
TranscendInfo said:
Hello brdeveloper,
Since the current batch of JetDrives have a SATA III controller with a max bandwidth of 6Gb/s, a Thunderbolt enclosure with a max bandwidth of 10Gb/s would offer minimal speed increases over a USB 3.0 enclosure with a max bandwidth of 5Gb/s. In the future with PCIe SSDs, then Thunderbolt would make more sense.

Hope that answers your question!
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Thanks for answering, but actually I think there are other reasons to offer Thunderbolt enclosures. I can see the following benefits of a Thunderbolt enclosure:

- Thunderbolt is lightweight in terms of CPU overhead -- ok, this is a common sense statement and thus the less important to consider when deciding about USB3 or TB.

- A Thunderbolt case would leave a USB 3 port free for additional devices. I use an external monitor through the HDMI port and a Gigabit Ethernet adapter in one TB port. The other TB port is always free. I use all the usb ports with a USB hub for mouse and keyboard and on the other I connect my cell phone.

- A SATAIII SSD connected to USB3 uses the entire bandwidth, that is, you can't plug another device into that port unless you accept that your SSD will run eventually slower than it's capable.

- Lacie sells Thunderbolt external HDDs (e.g. Lacie Rugged). It subutilizes the TB bus, but you have your USB ports free for cell phones (development, charging), home studio audio adapters, printers, keyboard and mouse.

- Lastly, you can charge your TB kits for a higher value! :D

Anyway, I congratulate Transcend for listening Mac users and creating SSDs suitable for our laptops. However, offering a TB enclosure would bring even more visibility to Transcend products.
 
TranscendInfo said:
Hello Everyone!
This is Transcend's Official MacRumors account. We'd love to answer any questions you might have!
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As i have a late 2013 rMBP i won't be able to upgrade the internal SSD with this upgrade kit. But i was wondering if i can use the 960GB one as a external SSD with the enclosure, and the bus powered system will be sufficient to power a large capacity SSD as the 960GB ones.
 
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