Found this spiffy little USB 3.0 transfer device for SSDs that are used by our Blackmagic 4k Production Camera. Cheap and bought it purely on the reviews on Amazon.
Cable Matters USB 3.0/2.0 to SATA Hard Drive Docking Station.
It handles both SSDs and bare SATA drives. AC powered so it gets plenty of power to the drive and about a 3 foot USB 3 cable. Also has a power switch so there’s little chance of causing a spark or other electronic interference when you attach the drive.
San Disk Extreme Pro 480GB SSD appeared immediately on my MacBook Air desktop when I turned on the device. I transferred 24GB of ProRes QT files from the drive to a bus powered Seagate 1TB USB 3 drive in 4 minutes. I might get a thunderbolt transfer device later, but for now, this will work well and wanted to pass it along.
Well that last post didn’t work! I’ll do it again with no html.
Hi Walter, even better (depending on your computer) are thunderbolt docks! Here’s an unpowered one from seagate for $90. http://goo.gl/RZtwaZ The downside is that it only has one thunderbolt port and probably only works for laptop sized drives and ssds.
This other one (also seagate) is $140, but is ac powered, can power full size drives, and has 2 thunderbolt ports so you can daisychain. http://goo.gl/MhxR4m
They are both made to use their specific drive sleds with the dock, but they have a standard sata connector so they work with any sata drive.
Thanks for sharing Ross!