FlashTrax

[dougsturgess]

Wow! I just took the FlashTrax out of the box today and what a pleasant surprise! I had purchased Delkin's Picture Pad 20GB last week and sent it back quickly after playing with it for a while. It was such an archaic piece of equipment, not to mention about $500.

The FlashTrax, so far, is exactly what I was wanting but couldn't find until State Street Direct sent me a marketing email 2 days ago announcing this hot new piece.

It's everything I wanted but the Picture Pad wasn't. The FlashTrax looks sleek, is smaller than the PP, has a 3.5 inch LCD, has sleek control buttons, a 30 GB hard drive and man does it transfer FAST through just a USB port. I copied about 90 MB of photos from my computer to the FlashTrax and at first didn't think it worked because I didn't see any buttons flashing. It happened almost immediately, less than 5 seconds or so. To my surprise, the photos were there when I looked for them!

Very easy to use and nice to look at. Looking forward to using it on an upcoming trip.

For anyone who's looking to buy portable digital storage, this unit fits the bill the functionality and design. For $500, it's 100x better than the Delkin!!

See my posting about the Picture Pad in this forum under the G2.

[dougsturgess]

FYI, I just returned from an Alaska trip for 1 week and took the FlashTrax along. It worked SO well! I also dropped my camera for the very first time in over 2 years and the camera was fine but the IBM 1GIG microdrive was damaged and not readable. Thank goodness I had downloaded the drive into the Flashtrax the night before (the microdrive was nearly full!!) so even though I couldn't use it, I had all the pictures safely on the Flashtrax.

When I got home, it was so easy to download the files from the FlashTrax to my computer. Within an hour I had almost 3 gigs of files (RAW, JPEG & AVI) files from the trip downloaded onto my computer.

I would highly recommend the Flashtrax for portable storage (30 GIGs).

Check out some of the pics at www.pbase.com/dougsturgess/alaska I have many more to come.