My main computer is a 13β³ Apple MacBook Pro. I enjoy using it because itβs portable, has a retina display and great battery life. One thing I donβt like so much about it is that the disk space is not upgradable. Adding extra space for applications, music, photos and other files after the main disk is full isnβt easy to do. Sure, you can hang a USB hard drive off the MacBook, or insert a SD card into the side, but both of those solutions ruin the looks and portability of the computer. Not to mention that neither option seamlessly increases your storage into one integrated bucket like the TarDisk Pear 2.0. The TarDisk is a solid-state expansion drive that looks like an aluminum SD card that has been chopped in half. Yes, I know weβve seen these types of MacBook SD cards beforeΒ thatΒ fit flush into the SD card slot on the side of the MacBook. But the TarDisk adds as much as 256GB more storage by merging with the MacBookβs existing hard drive creating one hybrid drive. To do so, the product automatically allocates files between the solid-state expansion drive and the MacBook Pro or MacBook Airβs internal hard drive; more frequently used files are maintained on SSD hardware for speed optimization.Β TarDisk Pear 2.0 is available in 128GB ($149) and 256GB ($399) on TarDisk.com.
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Iβve been using Tardisk since 8/16. Twice, Iβve had a gradually increasing incidence of kernel panics to the point of more than a dozen times per day. Each time, Iβve followed Tardiskβs advice to un-pear, and erase and restore the internal SSD. This time, Iβm just leaving it un-peared. Tardisk is just too buggy.