Nifty drive for MacBook Pro early 2011

[CocoSS]

Hello all,

I am thinking to buy a Nifty drive. I have an early 2011 13' MacBook Pro.

http://theniftyminidrive.com/products/the-minidrive-pro

Does anyone owns one ? Can you tell me more information about speed ?

Thanks !

 

[PrestonWard]

Hello all,

I am thinking to buy a Nifty drive. I have an early 2011 13' MacBook Pro.

http://theniftyminidrive.com/products/the-minidrive-pro

Does anyone owns one ? Can you tell me more information about speed ?

Thanks !

I was a kickstarter backer, they have not shipped them yet so hopefully in the next few weeks we will know.

 

[T5BRICK]

Can you tell me more information about speed ?

The speed will be limited by the SD card. If I recall correctly, they're not that fast.

 

[NewishMacGuy]

The speed will be limited by the SD card. If I recall correctly, they're not that fast.

More accurately the speed will be limited by the micro-sd card, which really aren't that fast.

You can get high capacity, high speed SDXC cards that will be just about as fast as a 5400 rpm drive, but the micro-SDXC cards max out at 64GB and are still pretty slow (though faster than most USB thumb drives).

This summer SanDisk released a micro-SD card that's supposed to be pretty fast (about as fast as a 7200rpm drive if you believe the stats), but I think max capacity is only 16GB.

 

[CocoSS]

I am currently having an 120 GB SSD and I want to store my iTunes library on that kind of drive. Do you think I will sense any kind of lag ? IMO streaming is not rocket science.

 

[Krazy Bill]

I am currently having an 120 GB SSD and I want to store my iTunes library on that kind of drive. Do you think I will sense any kind of lag ? IMO streaming is not rocket science.

Things will load slowly but once the media is buffered it will play fine.