Review on Transcend 480GB JetDrive 825 Thunderbolt AHCI PCIe Portable SSD Solid State Drive - TS480GJDM825 (Black) by Matt Wigfall

Everything was great at first. I upgraded to a 2015 Retina MacBook Pro and the extra space was amazing. Everything seemed to work great. Until one morning the computer woke up and booted up. I've tried everything. The computer appeared to be dead, but upon further investigation it turned out to be a Transcend SSD. Path. chew put. Dead. I had to buy another small 128GB SSD to make sure I put it in the same computer and it boots up right away. I also got an external usb ssd for mac ssd which couldn't see transcending. Things slowed down a bit before he died, but I wasn't aware that the SSD was the culprit. Seems I'm not the only reviewer who encountered this error. Very disappointed. I've never had such an abrupt SSD failure in the many years that I've used over 20 of these. It broke after a little over a year. I will not trust my data, time and money in the future. UPDATE After reading the warranty page further, it's clear that even if there was a way to return this through Revain, they wouldn't honor the warranty on the SSD. even without a body. This takes the point out of the Jet Drive reusing the SSD that came out of the computer as an external drive - I didn't need that external drive so I gave it away. This means I'm stuck, even though this thing died under what they call "manufacturer's warranty" and I used it for its stated purpose (to upgrade an SSD in a Mac laptop). I strongly recommend staying away. There are much cheaper options for upgrading an SSD, and probably more reliable ones.