New Technology.......

[IanH]

Any thoughts or observations on the following links...

Firstly Thunderbolt Drives....

http://store.apple.com/us/product/HA481VC/A/buffalo-1tb-ministation-thunderboltusb-30-portable-hard-drive-with-thunderbolt-cable?fnode=5f

Is this fast enough to be an external content drive on a MBP?

or what about this -- says its a SSD?

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/HA676ZM/A/lacie-256gb-ssd-rugged-thunderboltusb-30-solid-state-drive?afid=p219|GOUK&cid=AOS-UK-KWG-GO_UK_Product-Feed

and final question....

Aja have had the Io Xt on the market for over a year.. has anybody tried to use one as a capture solution, uses thunderbolt again...

http://www.aja.com/en/products/io-xt/#overview

Ian H

[kdelvo]

Ian,
just wondering if you every got answers to these questions. Because I have similar questions.

Ken

[5th Element]

Hey Ian,
I haven't tried the Io one, but I have used the black magic intensity with a mac mini. It was running off 1 SSD, with 16GB ram and it worked pretty well. It still "looks" like a capture card but I was pretty impressed. Not much latency at all, mostly just looks a little chunky with fast action if that makes sense.
I tried it with analog, and HDMI input, as it did not have SDI.
The biggest issue is you have to specify *exactly* what your input source size and refresh rate are.

I really wanted to try and use it on a dual output but Mac minis only have 1 thunderbolt port and the black magic ones don't have a pass thru, so I couldn't do dual output... Also triple head2gos seem to not work on the HDMI out of the mac mini so I couldn't cheat there either. No such thing as a thunderbolt hub yet either...