Rather than have all your files spread across multiple, smaller capacity SD cards, or lug around a portable hard drive, you can consolidate all your content onto a single 64GB or 128GB StorEdge card that you pop into your MacBook. So what is the StorEdge good for? It’s actually designed to expand the storage capacity on MacBook laptops – particularly the first-generation entry-level model with the stingy 64GB solid-state drive – without requiring an appointment at the Genius Bar. It’s shorter than a full-sized SD Card at 0.95-inch by 0.95-inch, which makes it unsuitable for use in cameras as it could “get stuck in a camera.” “It is NOT intended for use in cameras due to the low-profile of the StorEdge,” according to the PNY representative we spoke to. PNY’s StorEdge card looks just like an SD card, but looks may be deceiving Though the StorEdge fits into your MacBook Air or Pro’s SDXC slot, you cannot slide this card into your digital camera.
This one really depends on how you work – I either import photos to a second internal HDD inside my iMac, or via camera connection kit to an iPad mini (from where Photo Stream magically transports them to my iMac and then my Dropbox). On the other hand, this means that you can import the photos straight to the MiniDrive. This isn’t a big deal if you don’t use your camera with your Mac, but if you do then you might find it a bit silly to be using a USB card reader to get your images into the MacBook. The other problem is pretty obvious: the MiniDrive takes up an SD slot. It’s far from the smooth aluminum finish of the unibody MacBook it’s meant to match. The plastic caddy is fine, but the end cap feels loosely connected and rough. The speed felt the same on the SSD and the MiniDrive, although as I said this depends solely on the speed of the card.
In this case I did a Select All on the photos copied from my Dropbox Camera Uploads folder (around a gig and a half of JPGs from a Fujifilm X100S), set the Quick Look to full screen and flipped through. HD movies run fine, even in the Finder in a Quick Look window, and flipping through photos is just as responsive as doing it from the SSD. In my testing I have been using the drive for movies and photos, both of which take up a lot of space on my Air’s 128GB drive.
HD movies run fine, even in the Finder in a Quick Look window.
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