Review on 💾 Enhance MacBook Pro Retina 13" Storage with BASEQI Aluminum microSD Adapter by Matthew Fadoul

Micro SD card is actually not much bigger than this card adapter, but the size is more like Apple without leaving much space inside this Retina Macbook Pros series. I didn't manage to install the adapter the first time or the second time. I tried again and found the adapter was slightly bent and decided it was defective or had been damaged in transit. I took another very cautious step, only this time with careful, nervous pressure, aligned the adapter to the left and right sides of the MacBook rather than the top and bottom, and it barely went in. I don't know if mine was damaged. However, you must be careful when inserting this or any other adapter like this into the SD card reader slot. You can damage internal parts, especially if your slot has a spring-loaded clip and release. I get around 50-60MB write transfer speeds (don't remember read speeds), although this has little to do with the adapter and more to do with the SD card reader control chip on mid-2010s Retina Macbooks. I've read that it uses the USB 2.0 bus to connect to the motherboard, but that doesn't explain the transfer speeds being faster than USB 2.0. so it must be wrong. Of course, the transfer speed also depends on the card used, and I have a Samsung Evo Select SDXC UH-1 (A1) card in it. The micro SD card is easily mounted in MACOS Catalina and in Windows 10 via Boot Camp. First I put it in Windows10 and it showed up as an external USB device. After renaming the iSDA-EVO volume. (D:) became an HD icon, just like the (C:) drive looks like, but I'm not sure what exactly that means as it works fine. Reader registers Micro SD as SD in MACOS. I did not try to take it out because removing and replacing it would be problematic, and also because I intended to use it for slow storage of media data and document elements, as well as for transferring and working with files on both MAC OS and to use Windows. The card is already formatted in exFat which can be read on Mac and PC and stores files larger than 4GB and larger than 32GB. NTFS or APFS can provide faster read/write speeds. This thing feels really well made as it matches the feel of the Macbook. The packaging was also nice and comparable to Samsung's card packaging which gave me confidence in the product even before I opened it. Adapters aren't complex devices, so this thing should last as long as a laptop. I'm satisfied every time I look at it and would recommend it to anyone willing to pay Mac taxes for the convenience and extra storage. It's still a bit cheaper than Transcend's 64GB or 128GB JET drive, especially when you can use your own microcard or multiple cards if that suits you. If you plan to use this as a time machine or other system backup, SanDisk's A2 card might be recommended as it's designed to run programs unlike A1 cards, but I can still work.