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  1. Hey guys, new to the forum, pretty sure this counts under removable drives, I'm working on a project where we need to transfer video from a P2 card, and we want to take advantage of our Mac's thunderbolt connection.

    I've search so far, and I've only found two solutions that seem to avoid a major bottleneck, because there is no existing direct P2 card to thunderbolt method. The first method is a $1500 solution, but I'm not even 100% sure it's worth the cost.

    The second solution I've seen involve these two: A thunderbolt to express card adaptor here.

    and then an expresscard to p2 card adapter here.

    Before I take a plunge, could anyone give me their expert opinion on whether these will work, or if you have a better solution in the meantime? Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated!
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    Unless your destination HDs are also RAIDed, you really won't be able to fully take advantage of the Thunderbolt's connection speeds.
    So I would suggest a simpler, more straightforward and proven FAST solution (though a little pricier): get Panasonic's AJ-PCD30PJ (~$2300) 3slot p2 reader with usb3 interface.

    Or go for the cheaper, slot AJ-PCD2GP ($450) and live with its slower usb2 transfer speeds.

    Not really anything in-between.

    Btw, a regular pc card reader would be your speed bottleneck since it wasn't designed to handle RAID speeds that exist on a p2.
    And the matrox box is NOT what you want, as it does REAL-TIME, stream-based capture, not file/block-based transfer.

    I can think of a few other options...

    Scott
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