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Equipment & Techniques => Digital Asset Management => Topic started by: larkis on January 10, 2014, 11:33:01 pm

Title: Thunderbolt dual SD card reader or other options ?
Post by: larkis on January 10, 2014, 11:33:01 pm

I hook up two usb 3 drives to my mac book air when I offload pictures, is there a way to get an extra usb 3 port through thunderbolt (to which i could connect another reader) or any other option to get dual or more SD cards read at the same time ?

Title: Re: Thunderbolt dual SD card reader or other options ?
Post by: phcorrigan on January 11, 2014, 04:06:18 pm

Quote from: larkis on January 10, 2014, 11:33:01 pm

I hook up two usb 3 drives to my mac book air when I offload pictures, is there a way to get an extra usb 3 port through thunderbolt (to which i could connect another reader) or any other option to get dual or more SD cards read at the same time ?

You might want to take a look at this:
http://www.caldigit.com/thunderboltstation/ (http://www.caldigit.com/thunderboltstation/)
It sells for about $200 US.

You might also want to consider a USB 3.0 hub. They are not very expensive and, even though the USB bus is shared by the attached devices, you should get reasonably good performance.