Compact Flash card to expand MBP storage? ...

[cmeisenzahl]

My daughter has a spring 2015 rMBP with the 128GB SSD. I've seen things like this that supposedly allow you to seamlessly add storage.

http://minidrive.bynifty.com/

Anyone here have any experience with these or similar items? Any thing to like or dislike about them?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

 

[Samuelsan2001]

They have been around for years and there are a fair few threads on here about them, just do a search.

The general consensus is they are fine for a bit of media storage but too slow for much else and can have issues on sleeping and waking, shutting down etc.

 

[LxHunter]

My daughter has a spring 2015 rMBP with the 128GB SSD. I've seen things like this that supposedly allow you to seamlessly add storage.

http://minidrive.bynifty.com/

Anyone here have any experience with these or similar items? Any thing to like or dislike about them?

Thanks in advance,
Chris

I have same MBP
I use this for the media files and archives:
http://www.baseqi.com
With SanDisk Ultra microSDXC 128 GB

Nothing to dislike
If deep sleep is an issue look at:
http://www.stclairsoft.com/Jettison/
But I don't bother with this.

 

[cmeisenzahl]

Thanks guys.

 

[waquzy]

The general consensus is they are fine for a bit of media storage but too slow for much else and can have issues on sleeping and waking, shutting down etc.

AGREED. Nothing replaces the actual SSD space, 128gb + 128gb usb flash or sd, won't be as good as the actual 256gb ssd - fact

 

[Mike in Kansas]

AGREED. Nothing replaces the actual SSD space, 128gb + 128gb usb flash or sd, won't be as good as the actual 256gb ssd - fact

Although that is true, moving such data as iTunes media folder, documents, images, etc. will have much less impact than moving apps, library folder, etc.

 

[fisherking]

i store a lot of files (movies, some music) on a 128GB micro SD card (with one of those nifty cards). never had any issues. as an additional storage idea, it's great, AND it's always there when u need it...