Ultraportable DIT station

[David J. Fulde]

I recently pulled together some parts to make myself an ultraportable DIT/DMT station
It consists of:
13 inch MBP (non retina)
Sonnet Qio E34
Sonnet Expressport thunderbolt adapter
USB 3.0 hub
APC UPS (8 port)
Pellican 1560 case

This setup can take almost any memory card under the sun (Except REDmags, but every rental place in the city has a card reader come with their kits) and read them at some pretty nice speeds.

Pictures
Packed up and ready to cart away

Open and ready to transfer cards!

EDIT: This will be going under some changes soon. I am going to return the Qio since the P2 card readers don't work, and replacing it with some other card readers and a 4TB RAID

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[Greg Gutierrez]

Why don't the P2 readers work? Is that an OS issue?

 

[Kwan Khan]

Here is another 1..
Everything is in one pelican

 

[Adrian Jebef]

This one is my favorite...

Everything is in one pelican

 

[Matt Bowden]

You might want to include some sort of laptop riser in the Pelican David. To keep the Macbook off the foam. I've been having a lot of troubles lately with my Mid 2011 Macbook Pro and heat. It sits on a desk with a laptop cooler/riser. I'd hate to see any footage corrupted due to the computer acting funny while hot. Looks cool though.

 

[David J. Fulde]

You might want to include some sort of laptop riser in the Pelican David. To keep the Macbook off the foam. I've been having a lot of troubles lately with my Mid 2011 Macbook Pro and heat. It sits on a desk with a laptop cooler/riser. I'd hate to see any footage corrupted due to the computer acting funny while hot. Looks cool though.

The setup went through some changes since I first posted. First I got a laptop fan and then, over time (As of today actually!) I gave the whole setup a complete makeover.

From behind

From the front, open

From the front, closed.

As you can see, I got rid of the Qio; simply because of lack of use for it, really. It is a nice peice of kit, but I realized that I could not justify the cost and returned it. The UPS IS still there! It is just underneath the cover, which hinges out to reveal it, allowing me to plug in production drives and the like.

This redesign also allows me to actually have a place to keep the production drives, and the foam core is a bit more solid, allowing my macbook to keep nice and cool!