Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/11/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 7:13 AM -0800 11/4/08, Frank Filippone wrote:
>If you want to have your images backed up from loss, then the HyperDrive
>concept is pretty good. However, if the real issue is to have more "film"
>available on the trip, then more Memory cards is probably more safe.
>
>The real advantage in memory cards is that they do not break from drops,
>cold, etc. HDD do not like these conditions, and if you lose one, you lose
>ALL your images.
>
>Frank Filippone
>red735i@earthlink.net
>
Thats why you get a couple of drives. I can get 250Gb WD Pocket
drives for $89 here and 32Gb for $130, and that's what I hooked up to
an ASUS 901 with Linux for my last trip. E-mail, Skype, some writing,
all my travel docs scanned and able to show images. Except not M8
DNG's, as I didn't have the requisite software installed before I
went. But it's quite small, and I keep one drive in my luggage and
the other in my wife's, so it's reasonably safe.
The main problem is still finding good and convenient WiFi hotspots
that don't have problematic security 'features'.
If I don't want to take any computer I use the 'Nexto' devices, which
have the fastest transfer rates and the longest battery life (I've
gotten up to 100Gb of transfers on one charge). Transfer rates are
usually determined by the speed of the cards, but can be well over
1Gb/minute.
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