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product_id: 1574673
title: "Transcend960GB JetDrive 720 SATAIII 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit for MacBook Pro 13\" with Retina Display, Late 2012 - Early 2013 (TS960GJDM720)"
brand: "transcend"
price: "$441.38"
currency: USD
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# SATA III 6Gb/s speed 960GB storage Repurpose original SSD Transcend960GB JetDrive 720 SATAIII 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit for MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display, Late 2012 - Early 2013 (TS960GJDM720)

**Brand:** transcend
**Price:** $441.38
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🚀 Elevate Your Mac Experience!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** Transcend960GB JetDrive 720 SATAIII 6Gb/s Solid State Drive Upgrade Kit for MacBook Pro 13" with Retina Display, Late 2012 - Early 2013 (TS960GJDM720) by transcend
- **How much does it cost?** $441.38 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Best For

- transcend enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted transcend brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Smart Monitoring:** Free Jet Drive Toolbox software keeps your SSD performance in check.
- • **Next-Gen Performance:** Experience the power of SATA III 6Gb/s for seamless multitasking.
- • **Upgrade Your MacBook:** Transform your Late 2012 - Early 2013 MacBook Pro with a lightning-fast SSD.
- • **Versatile Connectivity:** Fully compatible with USB 3.0 & 2.0 for effortless data transfer.
- • **Eco-Friendly Repurposing:** Turn your old SSD into an external drive and reduce e-waste.

## Overview

The Transcend 960GB JetDrive 720 is a high-performance SSD upgrade kit designed specifically for the 13" MacBook Pro with Retina Display from Late 2012 to Early 2013. It features a next-generation SATA III 6Gb/s interface, includes SSD monitoring software, and allows users to repurpose their original SSD into an external drive, all while ensuring compatibility with USB 3.0 and 2.0.

## Description

Introducing Transcend JetDrive SSD Upgrade Kit for the Macbook Air and MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Complete with tools, instructions, and a slick aluminum usb 3.1 Gen 1 Enclosure to house your original SSD, Transcend JetDrive SSD Upgrade Kit allows you to both increase your storage space and boost the performance of your Mac.

## Features

- Compatible with 13" MacBook Pro Retina Display
- Next-generation SATA III 6Gb/s interface
- Free download of Jet Drive Toolbox SSD monitoring software
- External enclosure is fully compatible with SuperSpeed USB 3.0 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0
- SSD upgrade kit included, Repurpose original SSD into external SSD
- Operating Temperature 32F-158F
- Dual color LED indicator (Power, data transfer and USB 3.0/2.0 connection)

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## Available Options

This product comes in different **Capacity** options.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Awesome drive, great kit, subpar software
  

*by N***A on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016*

I bought this (960GB model) for my 2012 Retina MacBook Pro.  It works GREAT.  It is fast -- I did a sequential bit-for-bit transfer from my factory SSD to this over USB3 using ddrescue & System Rescue CD, and did ~450MB/s of writes to it practically the whole time; the copy was done in minutes! -- and TRIM is working on both OS X (trimforce) and Windows.  I have experienced no weird slowdowns or issues with power management or sleep/wake.  Everything is as it was before, except I now have way more storage!I also love that the kit comes with everything you need to migrate over to the new drive, including screwdrivers and a very nice aluminum USB3 enclosure for your old drive that you can continue to use as an external drive after you have finished your boot drive migration.  Given how relatively spendy this drive is, a 5-year warranty puts me at ease, as does the fact that I know Transcend is a trustworthy brand that has been around for a while, so I'm pretty sure they aren't going anywhere and will still be around should I need help during those 5 years.  Since there are now cheaper, alternative solutions for MacBooks with SATA-based flash storage, such as M.2/NGFF adapters and super-inexpensive standard M.2 SATA flash modules, these are important factors to take into account when weighing one's options.  For an aging 2010 MacBook Air that I have whose internal storage I also needed to increase, I went the cheaper route, and that has been going fine... surprisingly well, even.  But for my primary workhorse computer, the Pro, I think that I made the right choice to spend a little extra money to get something specifically built and tested for this machine, for that little extra peace of mind.The only thing I'm still on the fence about is the software that Transcend provides to monitor the health of the disk.  It's very basic, which is fine, perhaps even desirable.  But given how basic it is, and with no explanation of the purpose for them or the benefits they offer, it makes no sense that when you launch it, it insists on installing a handful of "Privileged Helper Tools."  The names suggest that they may help with power save / sleep issues, but without those installed, I have zero issues, and even if there were issues, there should be no need to take care of that sort of thing in software...if there are problems, that should be addressed in firmware, not with privileged system extensions.  So I take care to launch JetDrive Toolbox very rarely and immediately remove these extensions after closing it.  It's possible that these helper tools are specifically made for the JetDrive Lite SD cards that Transcend also makes, but I'm not using one of those, so they shouldn't force me to install these extensions whenever I run their Toolbox.Finally, I'll mention that I bought the 720 model instead of the 725 even though I have a 15" rMBP.  I knew I was taking a risk, but the 720 happened to be on sale at the time I made the purchase, and as a result I saved a significant enough chunk of cash that the potential savings outweighed any risk that it wouldn't work and I'd have to return it (which I determined was fairly minor after doing some research).  Given the fact that Apple uses the *same* OEM part #s for SSDs between the 13" and 15" models from 2012 through early 2013, that Transcend offers two different sets of SKUs for 13" and 15" models made absolutely no sense to me when I first started looking into the product.  As other reviewers here point out, it turns out that Transcend originally also only offered one part for both 13" and 15" models as well -- the 720 -- but the 720 was half-a-millimeter longer than the official Apple part, which apparently was a problem for a small subset of the 15" rMBPs that Apple shipped, where manufacturing tolerances for the space that the SSD fits in allowed for a variance of that much room!  So Transcend re-designed the PCB to shave off that extra 0.5mm so that it would fit in *all* 15" rMBPs and released the updated version as the 725.  When they originally communicated about this issue, they strongly implied that the 725 would *replace* the 720, since there is no reason that the 725 wouldn't also fit just fine in the 13" model.  Instead, for reasons that I cannot fathom, they still sell the 720 and 725 side-by-side, and label the 720 as exclusively for the 13" and the 725 as exclusively for the 15".  Boggles the mind.  And it's definitely not the case that remaining 720s in the retail channel are just old-stock, because the solution to this problem (the 725) was released in 2014, and I can tell you that my particular 720 stick was manufactured in April of this year.  I have to believe at this point that 720 sticks manufactured after the release of the 725 are actually identical to the 725 in every way (because why continue to manufacture and stock two subtly different products that are otherwise identical in every other way?), and my best guess is that Transcend just figured it was easier to continue to sell both, since older 720s in circulation may or may not fit in a given 15" rMBP, so this just reduces confusion in certain circumstances (but, as you can see, increases the confusion in others!).  Of course, this is just FYI and YMMV, and I'm not saying you should do what I did.  But I'd be willing to bet real money that the odds are extremely good that a JetDrive 720 manufactured within the last 1-1.5 years (so, the vast majority of them) will fit just fine in your 2012-2013 15" model, and a 725 will have zero problems fitting in any 2012-2013 13" machine.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Great product, poor installation instructions.
  

*by T***K on Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2014*

I have a mid-2012 15" Retina MacBook Pro, model 10,1I bought the 960GB version to replace my stock Apple 512GB SSD, since I was almost out of space on that drive. After I ordered the drive, Transcend changed their compatibility details to exclude 15" Retina MacBook Pros, but I had no problems installing the SSD in my machine, thankfully!The bad news is that the installation instruction video and Quick Start Guide are woefully inadequate and it took me quite a bit of searching to figure out exactly how to clone my existing SSD to the external JetDrive before swapping it out into the Macbook Pro. I am running OS X Mavericks 10.9.3 and my original drive was FileVault encrypted. Here's how I went about my installation, hopefully this will save someone else a bunch of time and make it easier to perform! (Four stars for the crud instructions, otherwise I'm very happy with the product, so far!)Oh and BlackMagic Speed Test records write speeds of 415MB/s and read speeds of 450MB/s, so this is a nice, fast, large, if slightly costly, upgrade!Installation Instructions for OS X 10.9.3 users (with FileVault enabled on original SSD / HDD):1. Install the JetDrive into the external enclosure provided and plug in the enclosure to an empty USB slot2. Start the MacBook up, holding down Command + R. This will load the restore options. (This step wasted a good deal of my time)3. Click on Disk Utility4. Highlight Macintosh HD (or whatever your existing SSD / HDD is called)5. Click on Unlock in the menu bar, if your source drive is FileVault enabled. You cannot clone the drive while it is FileVault locked. (This step wasted a good deal of my time as well)6. Enter your password7. Click Restore with your source SSD / HDD selected (Macintosh HD by default)8. Drag "Transcend" to the Destination slot (you will now have your existing SSD / HDD chosen as the Source and the new Transcend drive chosen as the Destination)9. Click RestoreThe cloning process took about 40 mins for my nearly full 512GB Apple SSD to clone to the new JetDrive. After that it was just a matter of swapping out the new SSD for the old one and then a couple more steps...10. With the new drive installed, restart holding down Command + R again11. Click on Disk Utility12. Under the Disk Utility menu click on Startup Disk13. Select your new SSD, this should be the only option if you do not have any other drives plugged-in to your system, and restart the system (this step tells the OS to default to your new drive on startup every time, otherwise it wastes several seconds searching for your old HDD / SSD at startup before using the new drive to boot)14. Check if TRIM is enabled by clicking on the Apple menu, About this Mac, More Info, System Report, Click on SATA and check to see if it says "TRIM Support YES". If it does, you're good to go. If it doesn't...15. Go to [...] and dowload the app16. Run the app and flick the switch from Off to On17. Restart your MacBook and you're good to go!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Well put together package
  

*by P***H on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 4, 2014*

I bought this drive as an upgrade to the 256GB Samsung SSD that came with by 2012 15" rMBP.The package contains everything you need. It includes 2x screw drivers with the relevant heads. I particularly like how the screwdrivers are magnetic which helps in removing the old screws.The drive is very easy to install and it took me about 10 minutes to do it all. It took far longer to restore everything from Time Machine.The drive seems to work well and doesn't suffer any slowdown when dealing with incompressible data, e.g. when FileVault is enabled.Running the BlackMagic disk test, the old Samsung scored 326MB/s write, 340MB/s read. This Transcend JetDrive scored 424MB/s write and 507MB/s read, so this is a pleasant surprise.This is an excellent upgrade as it's improved both capacity and speed, though I don't actually notice any difference in speed as the old drive was fast enough for my needs.edit:After 4 months of daily use (loads of VM work, building software, etc) I can say that my feelings about this drive is mixed. I ran into problems when I upgraded to Yosemite and enabled "TRIM" using Transcend's JetDrive toolbox. I had to wait initially for Transcend to update the  JetDrive toolbox to support Yosemite. Then once it did and TRIM was enabled, I noticed a lot of instability and a number of times when the drive would fail to boot. Wiping the drive and restoring images from Time Machine did not help.Reinstalling everything manually and re-enabling TRIM also seemed to cause problems. However, fully reinstalling everything and not re-enabling TRIM appears to have solved my problems. I suspect that the changes to drivers in Yosemite (look up kext signing on the Internet) is at the root of this and the Transcend have not properly tested their drivers. So for now, I've not bothered with TRIM and have had no issues.I'm knocking off one star off the review for this, and I would have been a lot happier if Transcend had bothered to get their drivers approved  and signed by Apple.

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