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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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Computer

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Reviews around expect (5.00 of 5)

  • System response time is great and everything seems to be working as expected
  • Easy to install provided one watches the youtube video, and works as expected as replacement for the original Samsung SSD 128GbHighly recommended.
  • Works great as expected, included documentation are a little scarce
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Reviews around price (5.00 of 5)

  • Good price for a brandnew item which upgraded my late 2010 MacBook air to become a "brandnew" laptop too!
  • Excellent price for a 240GB SSD that is plug-and-play upgrade for OEM MacBook Air.
  • Very reasonable price to double the storage space on my Macbook Air.
  • Once installed, it works very well at a reasonable price.
  • My google drive sync had maxed out the old drive, so this was a terrific solution at a reasonable price.
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Reviews around quality (5.00 of 5)

  • 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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Reviews around install (5.00 of 5)

  • The transcend SSD has been working great for the past week that it's been installed on the Macbook Air.
  • Bought a smaller Jetdrive previously that worked fine with easy install
  • Once installed, it works very well at a reasonable price.
  • Install was painless and device has worked flawless thus far
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Reviews around package (5.00 of 5)

  • 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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Reviews around video (5.00 of 5)

  • 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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Reviews around enclosure (4.33 of 5)

  • 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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Reviews around computer (4.30 of 5)

  • My computer works much better after replacing my 128gb hard drive with this.
  • Saved myself a lot of money and I feel like I have a new fast computer.
  • My computer, once one of the zippiest laptops you could buy, got really slow
  • I feel I have a good computer for at least another 4 years
  • I got the 240 Gb version, and now I've got a computer will ample free disk space.
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Reviews around upgrade (4.21 of 5)

  • This has to be one of the easiest upgrade kits I have used
  • ssdFor me its the greatest way to prevent the ridicilous upgrade prices from apple sad upgrades.
  • Great simple upgrade that allows you to use the replaced HD as an external unit!
  • Apple does not support this drive upgrade and does not sell an upgrade for my MacAir.
  • A great cost effective upgrade for a Client's slightly older Macbook Air
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Reviews around advertise (4.16 of 5)

  • Worked perfectly as advertised, no problem with the installation at all
  • Worked perfectly as advertised, no problem with the installation at all
  • Overall a great product, works as advertised and its a nice bonus to have the enclosure that can be used with the older disk.
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Reviews around case (4.07 of 5)

  • 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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Reviews around instruction (3.47 of 5)

  • 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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Reviews around drive (1.99 of 5)

  • Everything was packaged nice and the drive fits the macbook air well
  • Easy to follow instructions and so far had no issue with new hard drive
  • Installation was easy and using my old memory as an external drive is fantastic
  • My old hard drive gave me errors when I tried to clone the new
  • The drive works perfectly with my 11" late-2010 MacBook Air.
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Reviews around file (1.38 of 5)

  • 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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More about 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 shell, USB cable, and carrying case for your old or full solid state drive.