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Transcend Introduces JetDrive Lite Expansion Cards Up to 128GB for MacBook Air, Retina Macbook Pro

Kobayagi said:
Could this work to install Windows 7 on the card? If possible that would be a instant buy for me. As much as I like Mac OS, I really need Windows sometimes but for it's partition, I need at least 40gb. And having a 128gb SSD kinda makes that a challenge.
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I don't know if you can boot from it. But, you could install VirtualBox (or some other virtualization software), and put the VM image on the SSD device.
 
This article reads like a press release... It doesn't even mention this is a simple SD card. Sure, it is fast, but you can get SD cards in the same speed class already. What am I missing here?
 
Sounds like this is faster than 7200rpm Hard Drive but much slower than even a slow(er) SATA 2 SSD....slower than a 2-drive 7200rpm HD RAID. Faster than a USB-2 Thumb Drive.

I am wondering if it's fast enough to play 1080p video from the drive with no dropped frames.
 
hudson1 said:
wireless transfer is being done after the image is securely written to the sd card. Most higher end cameras are even using dual card slots which can be set up to automatically back each other up. This technology isn't going away anytime soon because it works so well. Plus, card capacity and speed has expanded right along with the growth of sensor resolution (raw files can be up to 50 mb now) and video.

What was the capacity of that last card you bought four years ago?
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32gb

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hudson1 said:
How are you going to store those 1000 shots of the Grand Canyon to transfer by WiFi afterward? No, I don't think SD cards are going anywhere for quite a long time.
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Said the person who says floppy disks will never die. :rolleyes:
 
satchmo said:
Frankly, for me it was never so much to do with the internal storage space. It was more to do with the lack off RAM expandability.

I'm talking specifically about the MBA. Not being able to upgrade (at a later date) shortens the lifespan of your laptop. Forces you to either pony up at the start or buy a new machine.

More an issue for me I suppose as I can't BTO refurbished units from Apple.
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This is silly. If you get 8Gb of RAM, your computer will be obsolete before you need to upgrade. Very few people ever find themselves RAM-limited.
 
tgara said:
I don't agree. Yes, more cameras are including wifi, but you still need a device to send the data TO. If you're out in the wilderness without a laptop or phone to dump the data on, those photos have to be stored somewhere. I can't see camera manufacturers eliminating card slots anytime soon.
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I'm not saying this year or next year. More like in the year 2018-2019
 
OceanFrog said:
I'm interested in an answer to this too.

How does this affect battery life if left permanently mounted?
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It's not a moving part, so it can't have a significant impact. I guess it depends on how frequently you are accessing the data on the card, but even then I suspect it would be minimal.
 
How fast are these? I stopped using jump drives because, although I might have 16GB, they were so slow I never want to put anything of real "weight" on them. Took too long.

Considering TRANSCEND doesn't tout this info, leads me to believe they don't want to draw attention to slow speeds.
 
JGowan said:
How fast are these? I stopped using jump drives because, although I might have 16GB, they were so slow I never want to put anything of real "weight" on them. Took too long.

Considering TRANSCEND doesn't tout this info, leads me to believe they don't want to draw attention to slow speeds.
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Hello JGowan,
Transcend JetDrive Lite expansion cards have a max read/write speed of 95/60 MB/s. This is dependent on the host device though. The 2010-2012 MacBook Airs have a USB 2.0 card reader so they are limited to approximately 20 MB/s read and write. Hope that answers your question!
 
If it's flush, how do you remove it then? MacBooks don't have the built in spring like most other devices.
 
@TranscendInfo: Ordered! Now please go make a larger one, 256 GB at the very least (FWIW, rMBP 15").
 
wizard said:
Nice! That could make a big difference. Now all we need is for Apple to support splitting the iTunes library across devices. That is audio(music) on one device video on another.
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I think Mac OS X does allow you to do this. Make a RAID volume by concatenating two drives. Then put the iTunes library on the RAID volume. But I don't think the boot drive can be part of the raid volume(?) So this mightn't work in this case but you CAN have an iTunes library larger than any one disk drive by combining multiple drives.
 
Please don't tell apple, or they'll remove the SD card slot ("outdated technology", "our customers don't want this any more", "our customers want Thunderbolt drives instead of this").
 
furi0usbee said:
LOL. Yeah, notice how they don't show you *that* part. They do show you how easy it is to put it in though. But as we all know, it's always harder to pull it out than it is to put it in.
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We still talking about SD cards? LOL
 
3bs said:
Serious? Don't really know much about these types of cards and might consider getting these if they're decent speeds.
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In my opinion, these are very fast speeds for an SD-type drive.
The speed approaches that of the average laptop hard drive (at
least for read speeds). A typical Class 10 SD card is rated only
at 10MB/s write.

Given the speed, I think these are quite well priced. To give
a price comparison, a SandDisk 128GB MicroSDXC rated at
30MB/s read will cost you $120 on Amazon.com. And to top
it off, you'd have to buy an adapter (e.g. Nifty) to fit it flush
with your MacBook.
 
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