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Transcend's JetDrive 520 SATA III 6Gb/s MacBook Air SSD is ideal for professional photographers, videographers, and graphic artists looking to enhance the performance and capacity of their MacBook system, and includes an easy-to-use drive enclosure for converting your original SSD into a new USB 3.0 external storage device.  Replace your factory-installed SSD with the performance-enhancing JetDrive 520 Transcend's JetDrive 520 features the next-generation SATA III 6Gb/s interface to deliver lightning-fast transfer speeds of up to 495MB/s read and 427MB/s write. No matter whether you're a casual Mac user or are fond of more serious activities such as graphic design, video editing, and gaming, upgrading to the JetDrive 520 gives you faster system response and application launch times. Available in 240GB, 480GB and 960GB capacities, the JetDrive 520 is large enough to handle data-intensive applications and store all your files The JetDrive 520 comes with a handy SSD upgrade kit that makes upgrading your MacBook Air easier than ever. It takes just 6 easy steps found on the Quick Installation Guide provided in the package to upgrade to your new Transcend JetDrive SSD complete with Mac operating system and all the data you wish to transfer. Transcend JetDrive Toolbox brings together the latest technology for determining the condition and optimizing performance of your JetDrive SSD into a single user-friendly tool. JetDrive Toolbox analyzes the health status of your Transcend SSD with S. M.A. R.T. technology and includes a convenient tool for enabling TRIM, which helps to maintain optimum write speeds and prevent long-term SSD wear. The JetDrive 520 SSD comes bundled with an elegant USB 3.0 external drive enclosure aesthetically designed to look like a natural extension of your MacBook Air system. In just a few simple steps, you can reuse your original SSD as a sleek new USB 3.0 external storage device to store and backup your documents, photos, music, and movies. The enclosure is made of durable aluminum. The result is a design that’s sturdy yet ultra light and easy to carry, and includes a handy travel pouch to protect the drive against scratches during transport. A bright LED indicator flashes during data transfer activity, and no external power or battery is required for operation. 1GB = 1 billion bytes. A certain portion of the storage capacity may be reserved for firmware and maintenance use. *Performance varies by capacity, user hardware and system configuration. Please see Transcend website for additional warranty details and limitations Transcend’s JetDrive 520 has been fully tested for 100% compatibility with Mid 2012 MacBook Air models. To assure robust, long-life durability and guaranteed performance, all Transcend SSDs are manufactured using only premium quality NAND Flash memory chips and are comprehensively tested for compatibility, speed and reliability. - JetDrive 520 MacBook Pro SSD
- External USB 3.0 Aluminum Housing (Fully compatible with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0)
- USB 3.0 Cable
- Free download of JetDrive Toolbox SSD monitoring software
- Travel Pouch
- Quick Installation Guide
- Warranty Card
- MacBook Pro 5-Point Pentalobe P5 Screwdriver
- T5 Torx Screwdriver
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I just installed my JetDrive 520 (240GB) in my 2012 11" Macbook Air (MBA). I'm very pleased with it.Very nice kit, well packaged. Included screwdrivers are pretty good quality & magnetized. The external enclosure is just sweet and FAST. Too bad I only have a 64GB OEM stick to put in it.I benchmarked the OEM drive and the JetDrive with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test (5MB). The JetDrive was 48% faster than the OEM drive when writing, and 27% faster on reads. Pretty impressive improvement. The Blackmagic benchmark speeds are in line with Transcend's own ATTO/AJA benchmarks too.A few thoughts:- When you first boot with the JetDrive, go to System Preferences, Startup Disk then select the JetDrive as your boot drive, this will make your startup faster because the MBA doesn't have to look for boot drives.- Don't test/benchmark your JetDrive until Spotlight has finished indexing the new drive.- If you have Dropbox (or other cloud storage) and... |
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My Review of the Transcend JetDrive 520 480GB SSD in a 2012 11" MBA.My Review also includes a comparison of the JetDrive with the OWC Aura Pro Drive.I ordered the OWC Aura Pro Drive the day before the Transcend Drives were announced. Before I received the drive, I called OWC to see if they would price match, and the answer was no. So, I thought Shame on Me. OWC's pricing was $449. for a bare drive and $475. for one that included tools and an enclosure for the old SSD. (OWC's pricing has since been reduced to $398. and $419. respectively) I opted for the bare drive. I installed the drive, and as others have noticed, the vertical dimension of the circuit board the components are mounted on is a millimeter or 2 larger than the stock SSD. Others have cut the board, I didn't, I applied a little pressure and it snapped into place. OWCs installation video is, IMO, far better than the Transcend video. Once set up, the SSD seemed to work fine, for awhile, but less... |
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It took me a total of about 20 minutes to upgrade my Mid-2012 13" MacBook Air with a 120GB SSD to this 480GB SSD! I have so much space free now that I could copy the 4 Windows VMware Fusion VMs back to the single drive on the system from the external drive they were previously on, and added 120GB a Boot Camp partition for Windows 8.1 w/ Updates to run in both natively and in VMware Fusion.I wish the MacBook Air was RAM upgradeable so I could run more than one VM at a time (I have 4GB RAM and configure my VMs for 2GB, which leaves 2GB for OS X, and 2GB for VMware guest OS's).The enclosure that came to use the original SSD as a super-fast external USB3 drive is great! I can even boot from it and it doesn't let a perfectly good SSD go to waste!I knock off one star (but really should be 1/2 or less if Amazon allowed it), because the Trancend JetDrive Toolbox isn't an identified developer as of the latest OS X Mavericks update 5/2/2014. This means to... |
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