It should be obvious, but it’s important to note that onboard Time Machine storage isn’t an ideal solution, as if your Mac is lost or stolen, so is your backup. It’s frequently recommended that your Time Machine drive be at least two or three times as large as the drive you’re backing up, in order to have enough room to save a sufficient amount of history, so this new 1 TB JetDrive Pro 330 is perfect for me as a test case. My 16-inch MacBook Pro has a 1 TB SSD, but only about 230 GB is currently used. One popular use case for the JetDrive Lite is as an onboard Time Machine backup drive, and the new 1 TB capacity option makes this a more reasonable solution than ever. It’s simply not designed for those tasks, but it’s ideal as some extra onboard storage for documents, media, and other types of data. Given the transfer speeds, you definitely can’t use the JetDrive Lite 330 as a boot drive or anything where you’re rapidly reading and writing data. That’s of course well over an order of magnitude slower than the internal SSD on a MacBook Pro or even a Thunderbolt or USB 3.1+ external drive, but for certain tasks, it’s definitely sufficient. Transcend says the JetDrive Lite 330 card offers read speeds of up to 95 MB/s and write speeds of up to 75 MB/s per second, and I came close to that in my testing, with Blackmagic Speed Test registering roughly 90 MB/s and 75 MB/s respectively. It’s a simple but great design that all but guarantees the card will stay in place throughout day-to-day usage, packing your machine in and out of a bag, and more. The JetDrive Lite 330 has a thin plastic face that rests up against the edge of the MacBook Pro, and it provides just enough of a surface to get a fingernail behind it to remove the card. While the JetDrive Lite 330 is at its heart simply an SD card, the novel aspect of it is that it’s designed to specifically fit flush with the MacBook Pro’s edge, allowing you to essentially leave the card inserted at all times without having to worry about the card or the slot being damaged from pressure being put on a normal-sized SD card that sticks out a bit. I’ve had a chance to spend some time with the new card, and while there are limitations for some of the things you might want to do with it, the JetDrive Lite 330 can be a very handy addition to your setup.
Have you experienced similar problems with the new MacBook Pro? Let us know in the comments section below.Last week, Transcend launched a 1TB version of its JetDrive Lite 330 expansion card for the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, giving users a convenient way to add significant amounts of storage to their machines without any extra bulk.
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The company has allegedly told some customers that it is “aware of the issue” and promised that a software update with a fix will be available soon. 100% of my cards work perfectly via a dongle.Īpple has yet to officially acknowledge the problem – and so far it is unclear whether this is a software or hardware issue. Sandisk, Sony, Samsung, 16GB, 32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, UHS-I, UHS-II, micro-SD, FAT32, exFAT, makes no difference. Reformatting, even to all other possible formats, makes no difference. The only thing that is consistent is that if a card works, it always works, and if a card does not work properly it never works properly. Some even confirm that the same SD card works by using a USB-C adapter. Sometimes the Finder crashes too.Īs pointed out by other users, formatting the SD card does not solve the problem in most cases. But Photos on the MBP using the internal SD card slot takes minutes to show photos and sometimes crashes half way through. I have a fairly new 64GB SD card which had been working fine. I was hoping that import from SD card including preview of images would be quick on my new 14″ MBP.
Another user says that the Finder crashes when the Mac is trying to read an SD card. There seems to be no consistency between the reports, as users say that they have experienced different issues with different SD cards.Ī user of the 14-inch MacBook Pro with M1 Pro chip describes their experience as “super flakey” as the machine takes up to one minute to recognize an SD card and sometimes it shows an error. Unfortunately, it seems that some users are having issues with the SD card reader on these new machines, as they have been reporting slow transfer speeds or even inaccessible files when trying to use an SD card on the new MacBook Pro.Īs noted by MacRumors, multiple reports shared on the web suggest that there is a widespread issue regarding the SD card reader in the 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models introduced this year.
One of the main highlights of the new 2021 MacBook Pro is the comeback of the SD card slot.
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