Review on 💾 256GB JetDrive Lite 130 Expansion Card for 13-Inch MacBook Air - Transcend TS256GJDL130 (Black) by Timothy Barnes

I wanted so badly to love this product - it makes smart use of the SD slot and offers an affordable and stylish way to add storage to a Mac. The Transcend disc arrived within a few days and was nicely packaged. It fits perfectly in my Macbook Air SD slot. I left it there and came back about a month later when I needed to back up my photos. The process took a long time - the transfer rate was so slow that it stretched me over 3 days. Second, after some time EVERY TIME the transfer to the photo failed, so I had to restart the import every 20-30 minutes. Maybe he couldn't stand the heat? Still, with patience, I was able to transfer about 6,000 photos and videos. Then when I tried to remove the drive to save, I encountered the following problem. I pulled it out of my finder and then carefully released it. The next day, when I reinserted the drive into my Mac's SD slot to add more photos, the drive was not recognized. I found the Transcend installation zip file in my trash and tried reinstalling it. Eventually the disk became visible in Finder, but there are NO PHOTOS on it. My entire photo library is gone! As if it were a new disc. I quickly decided that I couldn't trust this CD with my precious photos. Then I realized that of course the 30 day return window had just expired. Luckily, Revain's customer service was kind enough to say they would take the product back and refund my money. I'm very disappointed that it didn't work, but at least I noticed it in time - I still have photos on my iPhone and can back them up again, this time to a USB hard drive. Imagine if I hadn't noticed and found after a few months that my entire 2015-2016 photo collection was gone. Another important lesson for everyone reading this: back up to MULTIPLE devices. That means if you lose one, you have to recover from others.