“SSDs are amazing. They’re so fast, once you’re using to using one in your day-to-day work, switching back to working from a traditional hard drive is painful,” Matthew Guay reports for AppStorm. “You’ll get so used to apps opening nearly instantly that everything will feel slow. It’s no wonder Apple’s switched its most popular laptops – the MacBook Air and the new MacBook Pro Retina Display – to SSD.”
“There’s only one problem: SSDs cost more per gigabyte than traditional hard drives, so instead of the roomy 500GB hard drives you might be used to in other computers, a MacBook with an SSD will likely only have 128-256GB of storage,” Guay reports. “With HD video downloads and retina display ready apps, it’s rather easy to fill that up.”
Guay reports, “If you’ve got a 13″ Air or a Retina Display MacBook, though, you’ve got an SD card slot. Now what if that could be used to add extra storage that felt integrated fully with your Mac? That’s exactly what the Nifty MiniDrive – a tiny microSD card adaptor that sits flush with the exterior of your MacBook – sets out to do… For now, the most you can add to your Mac with microSD is 64GB, though 128GB microSD cards should be coming out later this year (and there’s the eventual potential of up to 2TB microSD cards).”
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Just don’t eject it in the middle of something!!!
That’s what she said….
Great idea. I can’t seem to find anything about loading the OS X system onto it and any comparison of speeds. Any help?
An SD or MicroSD card mounts and can have OS X installed on it like any other drive. As mentioned, just don’t eject.
As far as speed, this is just an adapter, so the speed depends on the speed of the card you buy, and those vary greatly. Most have their speeds labeled and people will comment on real world results on Amazon.
That said, I wouldn’t install OS X on it other than maybe to have it as a test drive or something other than an actual every day boot volume.
I can’t give you numbers but I can say the speed difference is stunning. I have one of the oldest intel laptop’s apple made and I upgraded to add with stunning results. Added years to the laptop’s life.
we have been selling The MiniDrive on Amazon since December 2012. Check it out – it is 1/2 the price of this one and available now.