Obviously, there isn’t any real world data to backup these claims yet and overall performance will also vary by Mac, it is still nice to see Transcend attempting to push the product category forward. Transcend says that users can expect read and write speeds of up to 95MB/s and 60MB/s respectively, which is the fastest of the bunch. Just this morning Transcend announced its JetDrive Lite expansion cards in 64GB and 128GB capacities. It retails for $59.99, but is currently on sale for $49.99. Some people may dislike the fact that the pull tab has ‘SanDisk’ branded on it, but that doesn’t seem like a deal-breaker to me. The SanDisk minidrive is only available in 64GB, and it includes a pull tab to make it even easier to remove. It comes in two different capacities (64GB/128GB), is colored black, and protrudes just enough to make it easy to remove. The most well-known version is the PNY StorEDGE. The memory expansion modules we’re going to take a look at are customized to fit nearly flush. It’s also an eyesore to constantly have a card peaking out from your Mac’s otherwise seamless and uniform design. This one really depends on how you work – I either import photos to a second internal HDD inside my iMac, or via camera connection kit to an iPad mini (from where Photo Stream magically transports them to my iMac and then my Dropbox).The problem with shoving any SD card into your MacBook is that is protrudes out from the laptop casing, which leaves the card and your Mac vulnerable to damage or getting knocked out. On the other hand, this means that you can import the photos straight to the MiniDrive. This isn’t a big deal if you don’t use your camera with your Mac, but if you do then you might find it a bit silly to be using a USB card reader to get your images into the MacBook. The other problem is pretty obvious: the MiniDrive takes up an SD slot. It’s far from the smooth aluminum finish of the unibody MacBook it’s meant to match. The plastic caddy is fine, but the end cap feels loosely connected and rough. The speed felt the same on the SSD and the MiniDrive, although as I said this depends solely on the speed of the card. In this case I did a Select All on the photos copied from my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder (around a gig and a half of JPGs from a Fujifilm X100S), set the Quick Look to full screen and flipped through. HD movies run fine, even in the Finder in a Quick Look window, and flipping through photos is just as responsive as doing it from the SSD. In my testing I have been using the drive for movies and photos, both of which take up a lot of space on my Air’s 128GB drive. HD movies run fine, even in the Finder in a Quick Look window.
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