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A while back now (Christmas, in fact) Kate got a Wintech Filemate SolidGo 48GB expresscard 34 SSD.
For those who don’t know, it’s a small Solid-State drive designed to fit into the small expresscard slot found on many laptops today. As we’re entirely Mac-based, we needed to find an expresscard SSD which would not require any drivers and be visible to the Mac’s boot EFI. Sadly, the Filemate SolidGo is the only expresscard SSD which is visible to the Mac pre-boot, and thus the only SSD we could use as a boot drive.
But then things went wrong.
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