Introduzione
Learn how to expand your storage in the Macbook Air 13" Late 2010 model with a Transcend JetDrive.
Cosa ti serve
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I have a Macbook Air, pretty early days. Late 2010. Got the JetDrive 500 in an attempt to increase drive space.
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Coincidentally, I have no conflict of interest with the company Transcend. I'm just a customer.
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Demographic / Skill level - I'm a software developer who primarily uses a windows machine.
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Comes with the tools that you need. Neat, I like it! Even if you are a home repair kind of guy, you are unlikely to have a magnetically charged screwdriver that can take out tiny Apple screws.
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Also, packaging is nice. No clamshells. Stacks in a box with an eye toward efficiency.
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Nice quality case which you could use to store the external drive case they provide.
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Take the new storage and put it in the external enclosure.
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When inserting cards like this, hold one side of the connector with two fingers supporting it and gently wiggle the card into place with the other hand. Think, micro-wiggles.
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Put the monstrosity of science you just assembled into the case, connector first. Make sure it seats comfortably and that you can plug the usb cable in.
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Awkward option finger photo, in full effect.
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Hold the "Option" button down the entire time that the system is restarting and you will get to the boot options screen.
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Being someone more familiar with windows, here is the point where I start worrying about the ramifications of low level operations but, like, whatever, right?
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I chose the "Recovery" drive. With the amount of information provided, I figured it was pretty much a crap shoot. Two sentences of text would have probably made it crystal clear. I'm glad I made "The Right Choice (c) 2014."
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So, now we're going to clone this drive. We enter a weird UX. Must click to fill in the source but have to drag to add the destination.
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Anyway, click the hardware old and drag the hardware new with great hope but in the interest of foreshadowing, I will let you know now that this will fail miserably.
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Let's erase it. (google translate: "format")
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And then, let's try and clone it. This time though, we're going to choose what I believe is called a volume, rather than a device. The device being the stick of ram we just installed and a volume as the collection of files and metadata stored on it.
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Chkdsk never hurt anyone. In Mac parlance, "Verify disk" under "First Aid"
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We have successfully reached the point where we can clone our volume.
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It's going to take awhile. This is the perfect time to do something else for at least two hours. I decided to go to sleep. YMMV.
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After the cloning process finished. I verified the disk and it reported that things were super-duper, you betcha.
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