Andy Wilkinson
February 10th, 2011, 11:36 AM
For those of us who use (mainly slightly older) Apple MBPs and/or the many Windows laptops for editing on the road that have the lovely Expresscard 34 expansion slot, this item caught my eye....why oh why did Apple ditch this slot on the 15 inch MBP - don't they know what we media pros need! Anyway, let's not digress.
It's a means of adding extra drive memory (64GB SSD) AND hooking up, e.g. external 7,200 rpm hard drives with HD video etc., using a pair of those super fast USB 3 ports. Maybe that SSD part could be designated as the scratch drive too.
Seems potentially very useful so I'm posting the link, especially as I always found eSATA via an adapter to be a bit hit or miss (with my MBP with Full HD XDCAM EX footage). No price info yet.
RunCore USB 3.0 Express SSD offers 64GB of storage and two ports in one killer device -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/10/runcore-usb-3-0-express-ssd-offers-64gb-of-storage-and-two-ports/)
It's a means of adding extra drive memory (64GB SSD) AND hooking up, e.g. external 7,200 rpm hard drives with HD video etc., using a pair of those super fast USB 3 ports. Maybe that SSD part could be designated as the scratch drive too.
Seems potentially very useful so I'm posting the link, especially as I always found eSATA via an adapter to be a bit hit or miss (with my MBP with Full HD XDCAM EX footage). No price info yet.
RunCore USB 3.0 Express SSD offers 64GB of storage and two ports in one killer device -- Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/10/runcore-usb-3-0-express-ssd-offers-64gb-of-storage-and-two-ports/)