Transcend JetDrive Lite – Second hard drive in your Mac laptop
If you have large libraries of documents, the need to back up Time Machine, use multiple operating systems or disk space on your Mac laptop is scarce, here is the solution Transcend JetDrive Live, a brilliant SD card designed especially for Apple laptops. If the space on the hard drive of your Mac laptop is little, or you need a second drive to back up, test the software in beta, a second operating system, you can have more than 64 GB SD slot and leveraging your buying Transcend JetDrive Live.
The Transcend JetDrive Lite is a memory chip card with an envelope specifically designed for Apple laptops: it is shorter than a SD card and only protrudes very slightly from the case of Mac, There are 4 different versions: MacBook Air 13-inch, MacBook Pro 13-inch Retina, MacBook Pro 15-inch Retina versions in 2012, early 2013 and late 2013.
Two cuts: 64 GB and 128 GB. Transcend points out that the MacBook Air Late 2010 Mid 2011 and Mid 2012 have an SD slot that uses the USB 2.0 bus so they are too slow to be used for the purpose that the affable JetDrive Lite aims.
The Transcend JetDrive Lite, once installed, it really is almost invisible. It disappears almost completely in the slot, leaving to only protrude a tiny step. It is even, in some ways, too much built: pull it involves some small crumble if you do not have sharp nails.
Probably, a dent or a dent would not have bothered too much of the profile of the board and would have allowed for better ergonomics. Evidently Transcend to think that once installed the Lite JetDrive there are more reasons to remove it, but the frequent use of SD cards, today very common, makes this scenario unlikely.
Transcend JetDrive Lite – Speed
Transcend comes to performance up to 95 MB/s read and 60 MB/s write. These specifications correspond to those of the SDXC UHS-I U3, which at this point JetDrive Lite should not be more than a variant cut specifically for the door of the MacBook Pro or Air. Obviously, these are the maximum speed reached on which account other factors, including the status of the bus.
In our test performance in reading were significantly lower: 71 MB/s read and 35.5 MB/s write. Since the card, as suggested Transcend is designed to make backup files, to accommodate large photo libraries (such as iPhoto, Aperture or iTunes) and for use with TimeMachine, this is a decent speed and is compatible with the use to which it is destined.
This accessory, the SD card slot cut measure for the Mac, to protrude no more and then be left in place. In Once installed, it becomes a true HD at a rate sufficient for the tasks for which it is designed: back up with Time Machine, filing of documents and libraries, an operating system emergency.
Referring you to our review, which will have all the information necessary to evaluate the utility for your workflow, just add here that it is the product of special and general interest, well engineered and manufactured by a company that specializes in storage media.
JetDrive Lite is available in two version, 64 GB and 128 GB. It can be used on all newer Mac laptops (there are different versions depending on the model).
