MCE Ships 1TB Flash Drive Upgrade for 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pro With Retina

MCE Technologies  is shipping high capacity flash storage upgrade solution for the 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pro with Retina display (mid 2012 – early 2013).

The 1TB and 500GB flash drive upgrade kits include a specially designed USB 3.0 enclosure to house the original flash drive to facilitate easy data transfer, all tools to perform the installation, an illustrated installation guide, and drive cloning software. The 1TB internal flash drive upgrade kit is $479, and the 500GB version is $279. Both are available for shipment.

“We’re excited to bring to market the first true 1TB flash storage upgrade kit for the first generation of MacBook Pro with Retina display machines,” stated Arnold Ramirez, president, MCE. “Users with the standard configuration of 128GB or 256GB of storage quickly encountered how minimal that amount of storage is in this day and age and are weary of lugging around external drives. Our 1TB and 500GB internal flash upgrade kits are a perfect solution to that problem.“

The 1TB and 500GB flash storage upgrade kits for 13″ and 15″ MacBook Pro installs in place of the existing flash drive in those machines. They are based on the SATA-III architecture in those machines and can transfer data at speeds of up to 550MB/s when reading, and 520MB/s when writing. The drives perform their own wear-leveling algorithm to ensure longevity as well as support TRIM when enabled in the Mac OS. They support SMART status commands and can be configured and partitioned using the native Disk Utility app in the Mac OS.

Each flash storage upgrade kit carries a five-year warranty.