TarDisk Pear—Apple’s laptops say goodbye to hard drives?

TarDisk Pear is a new storage device which can boost the amount in your laptop, opting for speedy flash storage. It is found that in the current lineup of Apple’s laptops, the trace of hard drive usage can not be found. That means, Apple decided to say good-bye to hard drives.

What is a TarDisk Pearl？

TarDisk Pear is flash storage that settle down permanently in your laptop’s SDXC slot, yet it doesn’t use an SDXC card. It works with the internal storage in your MacBook. Different from hard drive, TarDisk Peal provides more storage without needing to swap out the built-in flash memory. If you bought a laptop recently,you can enjoy 128GB or 256GB storage. However, you will not have the low price per gigabyte, which hard drives offer. Even though you might haven’t heard about it, TarDisk Pear has been released, available in 128GB or 256GB capacities for both MacBook and MacBook Air, costing 150 dollars and 400 dollars respectively.

The installation of TarDisk Pearl needs a few minutes of time, and when the install is finished, the icon of hard drives will be changed. Besides, a installation software is needed to run when to install this new device on your MacBook.

New devices spring up day by day with the developing of technology, you may enjoy the new thing, but also face some problems. According to the company’s FAQ, battery life will be affected by using TarDisk Pear, yet the side-effect is minor. Specifically, you will lose about 5 minutes during a battery cycle of 7 hours.

Is it a good news or a bad one for MacBook fans? Maybe the answer is not so important. we all purchase new things carried latest technology, and maybe TarDisk will be upgraded better and better in the future.