Transcend's StoreJet 500 is a portable solid state drive specifically designed for your Mac. Equipped with both Thunderbolt and USB 3. 1 Gen 1 interfaces, the StoreJet 500 offers unmatched transfer rates to boost your productivity. In addition, its sturdy metallic design complements your Mac with a sleek and elegant look.

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1. Transcend Information, Inc., a leading producer of multimedia and storage devices, is announcing the launch of the StoreJet for Mac SJM500 portable SSD that features both a Thunderbolt connection and a USB 3.0 connection.
2. StoreJet® 500 Portable SSD Transcend's StoreJet 500 is a portable solid state drive specifically designed for your Mac. Equipped with both Thunderbolt and USB 3.1 Gen 1 interfaces, the StoreJet 500 offers unmatched transfer rates to boost your productivity.
3. Transcend Thunderbolt USB 3.0 External Solid State Drive SJM500 for Mac. Exclusively for your Mac, Transcend’s StoreJet for Mac SJM500 Portable Solid State Drive provides immense storage space and offers superior data transfer speeds. Besides the SuperSpeed USB 3.0 interface with USB Attached SCSI Protocol (UASP) support, the SJM500 SSD is also equipped with a Thunderbolt interface, offering even higher transfer rates to boost your productivity.

External SSD Thunderbolt Backup Drives

Shopping for a ultra-fast PC or Mac compatible Thunderbolt SSD storage solution? Never before has a personal computer interface offered the insanely fast data transfer speeds of the original 10Gbps Thunderbolt, 2nd-generation 20Gbps Thunderbolt 2 drives, and 3rd-generation 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 storage.
Minimally TWENTY times faster than the popular USB 2.0 spec, and double that of the competing 5Gbps USB 3.0 SuperSpeed standard, Thunderbolt outstrips the bandwidth requirements of nearly any single personal computer peripheral available today. Conventional hard drives can't fill a fraction of Thunderbolt's data pipeline. So, solid-state flash memory disk drives are the most logical pairing of the two technologies. A PC or Mac compatible Thunderbolt SSD external backup drive can really leverage the potential bandwidth available for the fastest data backups and file transfers you'll ever experience.
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Shopping For TunderBolt External SSD Drives

In the 2020's we now have 3 generations of Thunderbolt: The original 10Gbps TBolt and 2nd generation 20Gbps Thunderbolt 2 using the mini DisplayPort interface. The new 40Gbps Thunderbolt 3 spec has adopted the smaller and more widely used Type-C USB 3.1 connector. In fact, Thunderbolt 3 incorporates SuperSpeed+ USB 3.1 10Gbps protocols so that either Thunderbolt or USB-C peripherals can be used on a modern Windows or Mac computer's Thunderbolt 3 port.

Who Manufactures Thunderbolt Backup Peripherals?

Major brands include Akitio, G-Technology, SiliconPower, Monster Digital, OWC and LaCie external Thunderbolt SSD backup drive offerings shown above. These laptop-size affordable consumer drives have a single Thunderbolt port for use directly connected to your computer - or at the END of the device chain. To get dual, pass-through ports, you generally have to move up to the multi-drive RAID array type of Thunderbolt data storage products.
One of the notably rising entrants into the external SSD drive market is Akitio who was recently acquired by OWC. They've long been a maker of USB, eSata, and FireWire drive enclosures for assembling DIY backup drives. Introducing a single-port Thunderbolt portable SSD drive like the Neutrino shown here (using an Intel OEM SSD) is the first step in recouping their investment, a 256Gb is available as well (using a SanDisk OEM SSD). Akitio has delivered a nice range of standalone Thunderbolt and Thunderbolt 2 and 3 drive enclosures for homebuilt storage solutions using the SSD or HDD drives of your choice.

DIY Thunderbolt SSD Storage

Alot of folks want to cobble their own Thunderbolt data backup drive together with the HDD or SSD drive of their choosing. Unfortunately, at least for single drives, there aren't many choices of standlalone Thunderbolt drive enclosures available. For multi-drive RAID arrays using 2 or more drives, the selection of Thunderbolt enclosures is better, but costlier.

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Seagate's Thunderbolt drive sled has sadly been discontinued. It let anyone cobble thier own affordable Thunderbolt SSD solution by simply plugging a bare 2.5' laptop SATA SSD drive directly into the portable adapter's SATA connector. It should be noted the Thunderbolt drive converter only has a SINGLE Thunderbolt port like many of the more affordable Thunderbolt storage products for home consumers. It's not capable of daisy-chained with other Thunderbolt devices.

Best SSD For Thunderbolt?

Several factors determine which SSD is the best match for Thunderbolt drives. A Solid-State drive in general relies on several components that determine a SSD's performance: Whether it's a SATA I/II or III 6G drive interface chipset, and which controller chip: Marvell, Indilinx, SandForce, etc. are the brains of the operation. Other factors in the solid-state drive market involve how fast the onboard NAND Flash Memory is, and the clock speed controlling it. Look to Samsung, WD, Crucial and Sandisk for the fastest off-the shelf SSD's shipping this year.
It's important to note that LARGER capacity SSD's 480GB and up offer BETTER performance than the smaller models: More banks of chips inside a higher-capacity SSD drive allow more simultaneous reads and writes across the banks of flash memory. As such you'll often see spec sheets quoting different maximum data transfer rates depending on the size of the drive. With solid-state storage, bigger is better - and faster.

Thunderbolt RAID SSD - Power Pair

Want to fill as much of Thunderbolt's pipeline as possible? Think Striped RAID 0 SSD drive setups for peak performance. By striping Reads and Writes across multiple solid-state drives or modules, the highest level of drive transfer speeds become possible. Some may opt for premium top-performance PCIe NVMe SSD's, others may wish to leverage more economical drives paired to get the Thunderbolt drive capacity they need and still fit their budget.
The direct 10Gbps pipeline that Thunderbolt taps into via the PCI-Express system bus offers mind blowing backup and data copy speeds compared to USB 3.0 or FireWire provided it's matched with equally fast solid-state SSD storage technologies. A growing range of enterprise, professional and consumer PC and Mac SSD Thunderbolt backup solutions are now shipping.
A Thunderbolt SSD flash memory drive is the best technological match for the insanely high bandwidth that a Thunderbolt inferface provides. With no moving parts, high reliability, zero latency and near-zero access times, they're a perfect match for this cutting-edge computer peripheral interface from Apple and Intel.
Currently, a few of the best choices in solid-state backup are LaCie 512GB Thunderbolt SSD

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dual-drive array which also now offers a 1 Terabyte version for demanding, Pro users. These LaCie high-end models combine dual 256GB/512GB SATA III Solid-State drives for mirrored or striped RAID 0 performance that delivers mind-blowing transfer speeds - at a price. Their Little Big Disk SSD drives also have TWO TBolt ports on the back for daisy-chaining with other devices.
For more affordable consumer options, the single-drive LaCie Rugged USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt SSD has high-speed combo interfaces for both USB 3.0/2.0 or Thunderbolt connectivity. The Thunderbolt Rugged series uses a single SSD drive for respectable performance - and the added value of flexibility to use it with older and non-TBolt equipped USB port Macs or PCs. The latest revision of the solid-state Rugged portable drive now includes a short, integrated Thunderbolt cable for quick connectivity, and still allows optional connection to a USB port if needed.
The Elgato Thunderbolt SSD Drive has been shipping for quite some time. ElGato also uses a single SSD drive module for more modest but still very snappy performance in either 120GB or 240GB capacities - but it's pricing hasn't dropped to be truly competitive with LaCie or other new arrivals in the marketplace. A new 512GB and 1TB SSD drive with combo Thunderbolt + USB 3.0 interface recently shipped, but the price is high.
Please visit the other pages of this site to explore the diverse market of PC and Mac compatible external SSD Thunderbolt drive options for budgets large and small.

Transcend Information, Inc., a leading producer of multimedia and storage devices, is announcing the launch of the StoreJet for Mac SJM500 portable SSD that features both a Thunderbolt connection and a USB 3.0 connection. The SJM500 is natively formatted in HFS+ and provides full support for Apple’s Time Machine backup software, giving users “plug and play” backup capabilities.

Advanced Thunderbolt technology provides for two channels on the same connector, allowing data to be transmitted and received at the same time, and theoretical transfer rates of up to 10Gb/s (depending on system configuration). The SJM500 also features a USB 3.0 port with UASP support, providing 10 X the bandwidth of a USB 2.0 connection. If the SJM500 is utilized in a Thunderbolt “daisy chain” configuration, it must be the last device in the chain, as it does not have a Thunderbolt pass-through port.

Transcend’s SJM500 measures 121.2mm X 75.2mm X 13.5mm, and weighs 136 grams (4.8 oz.). The SJM500 offers sequential read speeds of up to 440MB/s (sequential write speeds and random 4K read and write speeds are not specified). The SJM500’s sturdy metallic design creates a sleek and elegant companion look for your Mac device.

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The SJM500 can also be used with Windows-based systems, which requires reformatting the drive to FAT32, exFAT, or NTFS file systems. The SJM500 is being offered in capacities of 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. Transcend is backing the SJM500 with a three year warranty.

For added value, the SJM500 includes a free download of the exclusive Transcend Elite data management tools that help you manage data and increase productivity. When paired with Elite, your Transcend SJM500 makes it easy to keep important files organized, protected and up-to-date.

The SJM500 package includes everything you need – along with the drive are a Thunderbolt cable, a USB 3.0 cable, a travel pouch, a quick-start guide and the warranty card. The 256GB version has an MSRP of $289.99 (pricing for the larger capacities has not yet been specified).

You can view the Transcend press release announcing the SJM500 portable SSD in its entirety here; and the SJM500 portable SSD product page can be viewed here.