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Transcend 240GB JetDrive 500 SATAIII 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit for Select MacBook Air Models (TS240GJDM500)
Size:240 GB
Extend the life of your MacBook Air Late 2010 / Mid 2011 with Transcend JetDrive 500. The solid state drive replacement comes with tools and user-friendly instructions. In addition, Transcend JetDrive 500 includes an external hard drive...
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The enclosure for the SSD is solid and very Apple'esque and the included sleeve for the drive is a good quality
Tools are great, case is nice and HDD works fine, all feels with good quality
I'll keep my old 256G SSD in the (good quality) external enclosure as a backup boot for a few more
(I took an extra 10 minutes to use compressed air to blow out the insides of my Mac and a q-tip with alcohol to clean the air vents, and around the edges
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Everything comes neatly packaged and the kit has everything you need to copy your old data to the new drive, install the new drive in the computer, and put the old drive in an external enclosure for continued use.
First I was a little surprised that the SSD was packaged so well
Summary of review is given belowBuild Quality: 10/10 (Top notch) for both SSD and the caseSpeed: 10/10 (Compared to Price)Installation: 10/10 (Thanks Transcend for providing screw drivers)I'm 100% happy on Transcend for offering such a great package in a great
The product is very well packaged with all the supplies you need to swap your SSD's
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Watched the videos on YouTube and everything worked smoothly.
Installation is tricky, especially if, like myself, one has never opened up a Mac Air before, but there are some very helpful videos on YouTube
the instructions were not good but the video on amazon was helpful, took me 5 minutes to install the drive, the case for me was useless as my original drive won't work, booted my mac to via Wifi, on boot up used the disk utility to format the drive, used the time machine backup from time capsule to restore, few hours later everything came back to where it was last week with 120 GB more capacity
Very easy installation, booklet pretty useless but good videos out there on youtube
Easy to install provided one watches the youtube video, and works as expected as replacement for the original Samsung SSD 128GbHighly recommended.
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Comes with the special tools to open a MacBook Air and replace the SSD as well as an enclosure for the removed unit to use it as external storage
I'll keep my old 256G SSD in the (good quality) external enclosure as a backup boot for a few more
Bonus, the external enclosure enables me to reuse the original SSD
The enclosure that this kit came with is also much more compact than the OWC kit although bot kits do not secure down the connecting USB chip very well to the enclosure.
Also included is as USB 3 (2 compatible) enclosure for the new SSD (clone old SSD to new) and to put your old SSD in when you're done
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I love that it included the re-useable hard drive case as now I even have a super-fast 256GB external hard-drive as well.
It comes with a handy case for your old drive and is faster than the standard drive I removed
I love that it included the re-useable hard drive case as now I even have a super-fast 256GB external hard-drive as well.
Transcend provides a sleek Aluminum case, and even a very sleek black pouch for you to carry it in
the instructions were not good but the video on amazon was helpful, took me 5 minutes to install the drive, the case for me was useless as my original drive won't work, booted my mac to via Wifi, on boot up used the disk utility to format the drive, used the time machine backup from time capsule to restore, few hours later everything came back to where it was last week with 120 GB more capacity
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Easy, easy, except instructions for migrating data don't work.
The instructions are slightly oversimplified (specifically with regard to how you use the disk utility to copy the image from the old drive to the new drive), but that's about the only complaint I have
All the parts and tools are there, the instructions are clear
The instructions to option boot and choose 'clone' from the menu does not work with Mountain Lion.
Easy to install, though the instructions weren't exactly accurate/up-to-date
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Basically, I had some corrupt files and needed to find them and delete before attempting to transfer.
(if you have a corrupt file, it will arrest the cloning process rather than skip the file and continue cloning uncorrupted files - this is pretty infuriating if it doesn't encounter the corruption until 2 hours into the clone
Some people talk about other cloning program to deal with corrupted file, but I did not have any problem with it.3.2 Swap the
It is important to disable File Vault on your old drive before attempting to clone it
CCC will skip the corrupt files and tell you what they are and continue cloning your drive).
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Size:240 GB
Extend the life of your MacBook Air Late 2010 / Mid 2011 with Transcend JetDrive 500
The solid state drive replacement comes with tools and user-friendly instructions
In addition, Transcend JetDrive 500 includes an external hard drive shell, USB cable, and carrying case for your old or full solid state drive.