Review on 💾 240GB Transcend JetDrive 820 PCIe Gen3 x2 SSD (TS240GJDM820) by Tyler Cash

Replaced my Macbook Pro with this mid to late 2015 and didn't have too many problems. However, this is the process of installing an operating system and copying your data, and none of the guides I found covered it fully. Here are a few key tidbits I had to figure out for myself and none of the guides: Update your Mac OS to get the latest security updates etc on your old drive so it's the latest version. Do it 100%. You cannot restore a Time Machine backup using two different versions of Mac OS. If you are migrating to a completely new version (e.g. from Sierra to High Sierra and you have the latest Sierra security patches) you don't have to go that far and it will actually save you time. - Get out your off-site backup and make a full backup of the machine (turn off auto-hibernate in settings or it will be interrupted and you'll have to start over! The restore can't bring the three different parts of my backup back together. .. it was compressed ) You can use any external backup for this as long as you format it to ExFAT with Disk Utility. !Formatting will erase the external backup drive, so make sure you remove everything from it first. It takes HOURS to backup your time machine, so do it day or night and keep your laptop powered on and plugged in. in (again no sleep mode and no lid close). However, you can disable the screen and keyboard. There are many options for formatting a drive in OS X, and you should use a very specific one. When formatting a drive with Disk Utility, there are two drop-down lists. You need "GUID Partition Map" from the first drop-down list and "OS X Log" from the second drop-down list. If you get it wrong, you won't be able to install the operating system and you won't be able to restore your Time Machine backup to a new drive. You then need to install Mac OS X using Recovery Utility (Safe Mode, which lists the options you originally used to access Disk Utility. Just reboot and use the same keys as before after formatting the drive) - then you need to update your Mac OS to the same version you were using to take the time to back up the computer (go back to what I said first, here's why.) If you have a Mac with Lion and are in High Sierra, you will need to go through the High Sierra upgrade process again to do this. - then you can restore your Time Machine backup to a new drive - don't worry about unmounting your device from iTunes/iCloud. Because you're using a Time Machine backup to restore everything, Apple treats them as the same device. - NOW if your OS is STILL outdated after a restore because you wanted to save time, update your crap. As of this writing, an important security patch (for areas of the Mac OS that have been around for a LONG time) has been released in the last few months and you should make sure you have it. Much luck!