best external hard drive for macbook pro retina

Whilst at home, I also have a USB dock connected which has a couple of external hard-drives connected, but again, suffer with being slow. This doubles my usable space, but is a second-class citizen of course, as it’s inherently slow. With only 128GB of disk space, I quickly added a Transcend JetDrive Lite to the machine, which sits flush in the SD card slot on the right-hand side. Entry-level 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM it is then!

As it turns out, they were just drop-shipping the standard builds, which meant any customisation (upgrading the RAM etc.) was out of the question.

For those of us in the UK, it is managed by the same company that also do the Cycle To Work Scheme vouchers etc.Īt the time, I had a capable but old MacBook Pro (2011 I believe), so the temptation of an upgrade was too great, and I jumped at the opportunity for a shiny new retina MacBook Pro (Early 2015). It’s early 2016, and my employer comes up with a scheme that can help us purchase a laptop and spread the cost over 12 months.

Best external hard drive for macbook pro retina