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Transcend Introduces JetDrive Lite Expansion Cards Up to 128GB for MacBook Air, Retina Macbook Pro
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It's a trick.
Everyone knows telekinesis is not magic. :X
In seriousness -- maybe tweezer will work fine (or finger nails.)
That's not form-fitted to the Mac - it's only magnetic, shock, temperature and waterproof. Also, this is MacRumors - not rumors about cheaper alternatives to things not specifically designed for Macs that could also be used with cameras and whatnot.
Transcend didn't just pay for product placement here - this thing is form-fitted to your Mac - looking just as good on your Mac as your skinny jeans look on you!
Still waiting to hear back on my Time Machine script before I place my order...
Yeah, and it's full size SD card which will stick out from MacBook. It gonna looks ugly for daily usage. JetDrive Lite and PNY meant to be as invisible extra storage for ur device, which you won't remove after few mins.
Can you post a picture of how ugly it will look? I paid $2500 for my machine - not gonna fork out $100 to make it fugly.
Seriously, I just googled it and can't find a single picture of a card like the PNY inserted in a MacBook Pro. How far does it stick out?
These drives are too slow for that. And unreliable.
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This was a kickstarter.
Seconded. Nothing anyone will put is that slot can be deemed reliable. As a short term storage perhaps fine, but not as a reliable storage. Just upgrade the SSD.
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That comment demonstrates your naiveté. And your inexperience with such things. These expansion cards have proven more unreliable the thumb drives but not by much.
But, you should get one and put important files on it. Check-in in a couple of months.
Uhm... I just upgraded from a 2008 MBP, where I used a 64GB USB 2.0 Kingston drive as a Time Machine Backup. But the backups were dedicated to work I created.
Anyway, the first backup was ridiculously slow - but after that, it worked like a charm.
What I didn't like about it, though, was that the drive was ALWAYS hot - regardless of whether it was being accessed or not.
I've never used Transcend - so can't comment on the reliability. Also, as I've noted, Time Machine is a little b*tch - from what I've read you only get one setting - and if you're stupid enough to assign it to multiple drives, it "queues" the drives out - so unless you alternate the drives constantly, it just stops working.
I love the interface - but the functionality blows. Rather than choosing what you would like for Time Machine to retain, you must instead exclude items. I have no idea why it's so cumbersome.
Anyway, as far as this drive is concerned, it would seem like a perfect alternate "Personal" Time Machine, if such a thing were allowed by the Appleverse to exist. But apparently, no.
Also, I agree with several posters here that Transcend needs a video of the drive being removed. I don't care about the price point if I stand any chance whatsoever of having some card stuck in my machine.
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And I was kidding about trusting the marketing guy - it does seem like a neat little device, but it'd need at least 3 months of reviews before I even considered shoving it inside my machine.
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And how well would this work to give me the little extra storage I need to keep those 2-3 steam games that don't fit with me? Would they perform just fine (One in particular is PayDay 2)
So WTF is the slot for? It's just a trash can slot? If nothing I put in that slot is reliable - then it's just there for professional photographers to insert their SD cards that are all rapidly ticking time bombs?
How long do they have from taking the shot to storing it on the computer before the photographs are likely destroyed?
How many days do I have left on my WD Ultra? Do I need to transfer immediately? My SSD is kinda stuck in my rMBP - how long before it blows up?
I thought the whole point of these new devices was to make storage more stable and reliable? I stopped burning DVD backups because I thought the "new" memory had a longer shelf-life?
Also, thanks for the photos. Those regular cards really do jut out quite a bit - ouch.
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My laptop can take max 64GB, really...Not good storage options. 64GB is way too small to be of any use...$100 is a bit pricy, $1 per 1GB yes, this is almost $2 per 1GB
In 2006, 1 GB Compact Flash cards cost about $52. Prices are MUCH lower today for flash memory and storage.
Cool, but can it be used on other machines?
Great storage expansion solution, especially for the decent read/write speeds, but do the form factors prevent these from being used in machines other than the ones they're designed for? In other words, can I place the short 330 in an iMac or MacBooc Pro 15 to move files between my 13 and those other machines? Or is it purely a storage solution, useless for file transfers?
Great storage expansion solution, especially for the decent read/write speeds, but do the form factors prevent these from being used in machines other than the ones they're designed for? In other words, can I place the short 330 in an iMac or MacBooc Pro 15 to move files between my 13 and those other machines? Or is it purely a storage solution, useless for file transfers?
Thanks for the info! Not really much, but still more than I thought it would be.
rapidly ticking ... haha. I can transfer photos from SDHD / SDXC cards to the computer so that I can continue shooting the next session. Definitely not a trash can. MY WD Ultra has a L O N G way to go before it fails.
Yea as others have said there are much cheaper and faster options if you don't mind the memory card sticking out. However I understand there are some people always on the go or simply don't like the look of one sticking out so I guess this works.
Will reliability really matter when Im storing replaceable data and they have a lifetime warrenty?
I'm not sure why people think this is a class 10 device. It's 95/60 read/write, which is more hard drive than class 10.
Class 10 minimum is 10MB/s, and UHS3 minimum is 30MB/s.
Class 10 minimum is 10MB/s, and UHS3 minimum is 30MB/s.
The trouble with all of them is, once you have 700MB/s read/write speeds, everything else is just dirt slow. I finally just got a 64GB SanDisk Extreme USB and it clocks at about 250MB/s - which is ok for iMovie editing HD material. I would love to have something that fit flush and was an extra 128G - I'd even pay real money for it. But I paid $2,000, in part, for smokin' fast transfer & rendering speeds, and most of the sd cards out there are just like driving your hot rod on the rims. What's the point....
I finally just got a 64GB SanDisk Extreme USB and it clocks at about 250MB/s - which is ok for iMovie editing HD material. I would love to have something that fit flush and was an extra 128G - I'd even pay real money for it. But I paid $2,000, in part, for smokin' fast transfer & rendering speeds, and most of the sd cards out there are just like driving your hot rod on the rims. What's the point....
Eh, this isn't anything new. I recently picked up the Nifty Minidrive and a 128GB microSD. Works just fine. Not super fast, but it gets the job done.