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Back when Macbook airs had tiny drives and sdcard slots, there were multiple vendors selling flush-mount sd cards. They work surprisingly well, they can sink he
by Tuna-Fish 11mo ago
Back when Macbook airs had tiny drives and sdcard slots, there were multiple vendors selling flush-mount sd cards. They work surprisingly well, they can sink heat well into the aluminum body.
This product isn't quite there yet, but it's clearly aiming for the same market.
- vasco 11mo agoI have a few of those still lying around, they were great!
- piskov 11mo agoThere are still for any macbook pro with sd card slot. BaseQi or similar Nothing beats cheap storage like that and completely flush with the case
- deafpolygon 11mo agoBut how reliable is it? I've heard stories about how unreliable it is, and it's got me concerned.
- pcdoodle 11mo agorunning a parallels windows install off one, no issues. macos does unmount if battery gets really low but not really an issue after reboot or replug.
- Tuna-Fish 11mo agoIt's a portable device, everything on it needs be backed up frequently in case of loss or theft anyway. I just wanted more storage for media for when I'm not connected to my home setup and/or into a fast internet pipe, and also didn't want to pay apple 1000% margin for 2 commodity flash chips.
- piskov 11mo agoUse it for some throughaway big files stuff or backup with something like backblaze