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

I bought this to upgrade the storage in my wife's mid 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro. When I ordered the Transcend 960GB JetDrive 820 PCIe Gen3 x 2 SSD (TS960GJDM820), I wasn't aware that it actually came with two special screwdrivers to open the case and eject the drive. The instructions on Transcend's website were easy to follow. First, I have Time Machine backed up to a USB drive. Then I turned off my MacBook. Then I opened the case, removed the old SSD and installed the new SSD. I then turned the MacBook back on and partitioned and formatted the drive. I then chose the option to restore from a Time Machine backup. That was done in about 45 minutes. The Mac was like new, except it had significantly more storage space. I had to manually partition and format the drive. When I told it to partition and format as part of a Time Machine recovery, it crashed almost immediately. What I didn't understand is that Apple puts a recovery partition in the firmware of newer MacBooks, so you can recover your MacBook without finding OSX installation media. It's not a partition on the hard drive.