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TarDisk is basically an SD card that permanently occupies the SD card slot on your Macbook, and expands the storage by "joining" the current SSD. Your system just sees a single, larger storage drive.
There are lots of other SD cards with the same form factor, but they're basically just additional drives; they don't join/expand the built in storage.
How would you go about copying the functionality of the TarDisk with one if the cheaper hardware alternatives, such as the Transcend Jetdrive?
>TLDR; how to use a standard SD card to expand Macbook storage like TarDisk.
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>>58571719
Wouldnt it be better to just upgrade the SSD? wouldn't you run into performance degradation from mixed storage?
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This is fucking stupid. It's still a separate drive it just has some software that tells your macbook to display it differently.
It's like those chinese flash drives that claim 512gb and show up as 512gb on your computer, but are actually just 1-2gb drives with some software to fool your computer.
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>>58571743
>macbook
>upgrade
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>>58571743
Sure, if you could upgrade.
>>58571719
Just store your shit externally. In both use cases you need backups anyways so worry about that first
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>>58571719
So basically JBOD?
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>>58571800
>inb4 RAID1
>with a SD card
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>>58571719
Well, I guess you can create a FusionDrive manually or tinker with LVM in any other way.
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>>58571719
See >>58571765. Get the cheaper one and get more storage. It'll just act as a second hard drive.
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LVM already does this without the need to pay for hardware.
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>>58571719
>t. mactoddler
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>>58571719
>Slow down your super fast SSD with an SD card
This is why I bought the Nifty alternative.
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>>58571719
Why would you want to even do that? I bet the SD card reader is on a USB2 interface anyway.
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>>58571719
>Your system just sees a single, larger storage drive.
Muh magic.
Let me guess it is just a sd card with some "driver" which basically use a built-in OSX CoreStorage FusionDrive feature?
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