Transcend Information Inc., a leading manufacturer of storage and multimedia products, is proud to announce the release of JetDrive™ 825 Thunderbolt PCIe portable solid-state drive (SSD) for Mac computers. The drive utilizes the powerful JetDrive 820 PCIe SSD as its storage media featuring 3D NAND flash and a PCIe Gen3 x2 interface. The JetDrive 825 offers lightning-fast transfer speeds and large capacities, making it the perfect storage upgrade for MacBook Pro®, MacBook Air®, Mac mini®, and Mac Pro®. Thunderbolt technology in a sleek case Transcend’s JetDrive 825 features a 10Gb/s Thunderbolt interface, capable of blazing-fast file transfers. The drive is housed in sleek, aluminum alloy enclosure which was designed to tastefully complement your Mac’s simple, clean design. In addition, the inner SSD is removable for greater ease of use based on users’ preferences.

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Adopting Transcend’s JetDrive 820 PCIe SSD The JetDrive 825 adopts the newly released JetDrive 820 PCIe SSD for its storage media. The JetDrive 820 features the PCIe Gen3 x2 interface capable of read/write speeds of up to 950 MB/s, bringing a whole new level of performance to Mac computers. The JetDrive 820 is constructed of 3D NAND flash, a technology that has allowed for storage size breakthroughs, and increased speed and reliability of data transfers. Monitoring SSD Health with Exclusive JetDrive Toolbox Transcend’s exclusive JetDrive Toolbox, a free download from the Transcend website, is a software kit tailor-made for Transcend’s Apple Solutions. JetDrive Toolbox allows users to maintain a healthy SSD by keeping it up-to-date, preventing functional degradation, and predicting problems before they happen. Easy to use, the Toolbox includes Drive Information, S.M.A.R.T.

Status, Health Indicator, and Firmware Update functions. Transcend’s JetDrive 825 comes in 240GB, 480GB, and 960GB capacities, and backed by Transcend’s five-year limited warranty. Transcend is a globally recognized leader in the manufacture of storage, multimedia and industrial products. Established in Taiwan in 1988, Transcend offers a full line of standard and proprietary memory modules, car video recorders, Apple solutions, flash cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, solid-state drives, digital music players, card readers, multimedia products and industrial products. Transcend has established offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, Korea, China and Hong Kong.

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The 256GB StoreJet 500 Portable Solid State Drive from Transcend is formatted in HFS+ for use with your Mac and it connects via Thunderbolt or USB. It is also compatible with Windows computers but requires reformatting. The StoreJet 500 is equipped with a Thunderbolt port for transferring data to your computer with a rate up to 10 Gb/s.

In addition, it is also built with a USB 3.0 port that provides 10 times the bandwidth of USB 2.0. The SSD offers a read speed up to 440 MB/s that provides rapid access to your HD videos. Compared to a hard drive, the SSD features no moving parts, which allows it to run coolly and silently. Additionally, it can withstand five times greater shock than hard drives, giving your data comprehensive protection. The StoreJet 500 supports Time Machine, which allows you to back up and synchronize data on your Mac computer. Transcend also offers a free download of Transcend Elite data software that makes it easy to keep important files organized, protected, and up-to-date.

Furthermore, the StoreJet 500 powers itself from your computer via Thunderbolt or USB. Included with the StoreJet 500 are Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 cables and a travel pouch. Thunderbolt and USB 3.0 Interfaces With advanced Thunderbolt technology, the SJM500 portable SSD offers transfer rates of up to 10 Gb/s. In addition to the Thunderbolt interface, the SJM500 is also equipped with a SuperSpeed USB 3.0 port with UASP support, providing 10 times the bandwidth of USB 2.0. Durable Design The SJM500 SSD is natively formatted in HFS+ for your Mac and fully supports Time Machine.

The SJM500 can withstand 5 times greater shock than hard drives, giving your data comprehensive protection. Moreover, its high-quality metallic design complements your Mac with a sleek and elegant look. Transcend Elite Software Transcend Elite includes user-friendly applications that help you manage your data and increase productivity.

With Elite, your Transcend storage device can keep important files organized, protected, and up-to-date. Rated 3 out of 5 by B.P.

From Decent drive, but thunderbolt speeds are aweful The size of the drive is pretty big (dimensions, not storage wise), and the thunderbolt & usb3 speeds are not not great. In using a late 2013 iMac and mid 2013 MacBook Pro, I was disappointed in the speeds. The max for either USB3, or thunderbolt was usually 295MBs Write / 359MB Read.

I benchmarked it 3 times, and those are the averages. For thunderbolt, I would've expected it to be at least 500MB R/W (preferably in the 700-800MB range) I tested it using blackmagic, and wasn't really stunned or blown away by the results. Would I recommend, maybe, but don't think it's anything to write home about. Rated 5 out of 5 by Spike da Peke from Fast, Light, Well Designed I bought the StoreJet 500in the petite 256 GB in size for two reasons: first I needed a drive to carry large multi-gigabyte files back and forth between two sites. I suppose this is even small enough to carry in a pocket, but generally I put it inside it supplied slipcover and travel with it inside a protected compartment of a backpack.

The second reason for the purchase was to have an emergency boot drive for my multiple Mac office. I own several iMacs, and always worry about the possibility of an internal drive failure, especially in the older machines. So, I've formatted it as a bootable drive with a complete current OS X 10 and the required software set for my office. OS X 10 in the current iteration occupies less than 9 GB. My minimum software installation requires another 10 GB. Just to be sure everything works, I've restarted two iMac's after using system preferences to designate it as a the start up drive, and it works like a charm.

I did have one problem when the drive arrived. The supplied 0.5 meter Thunderbolt cable was dead on arrival. The super people at B&H customer service were able to send me a quick replacement, and now all is well.

Speed: Please remember: this is an inexpensive Thunderbolt 1 device. My system reports indicates that it operates only at a single Thunderbolt channel - 1 layer at 10GB per second. Thunderbolt 2 devices operate at two channels or layers totalling 20 GB per second, but if you want that speed, you need to pony up a lot more money.

Subjective Speed assessment: Owning several multiple internal and external hard drives and SSD's. I find this drive to be very quick- though not as fast as the internal 1TB on my latest generation iMac when copying large (12 to 20 GB) files. I do note that on one of my oldest machines (late 2011 27 3.4 gHz i7 with 24 GB of ram and a 1 TB hard drive that it seems slower. It's still lots faster than the internal hard drive, but I suspect the older Mac's firmware or internal bus design have reduced throughput, even for a nominally Thunderbolt 1 device.

Rated 2 out of 5 by OFM from I would've just stuck with SanDisk USB3.0 SSD's. I've been using SanDisk SSD drive (USB 3.0), and heard that Thunderbolt is a lot faster so gave it a try. First of all, compared to SanDisk, which is very thin and beautifully designed, this Transcend looks more like traditional hard drive with its big size. It looks like it needs to be handled with care. And for the speed, I don't notice any difference.

I am a video editor and I work on MacBook Pro with all the files in external SSD drive. Considering the price which was about twice higher than the SanDisk, I think I made a poor decision.

Rated 5 out of 5 by Acorn Video Man from Does the job. I built a PC for video editing and I used a mother board that has a Thunderbolt port.

My purpose was to have the capability to have an external solid state HD video storage site that I could edit from. I have Windows 7 and I had to reformat this drive, but I got that accomplished in relatively short order. So far this set up performs as I hoped it would. I edit HD video directly off this solid state hard drive and so far works as I had hoped.

I use Vegas Pro 13.