Portable Storage

[hotmetal]

Hi All

I now have my EOS 10D, but I need to investigate Portable Storage devices.

I have seen in a catalogue an APACER Disk Steno CP-100, which is a battery driven CD recorder with various slots for media.

Does anyone have any field experience with this or similar devices?

Any opinions or advice would be welcomed.

Many Thanks

Alan

[NILOLIGIST]

hotmetal,

No, but I am going with the smartdrive, you can listen to your MP3 files too and it has a 30gig hard drive.

http://smartdisk.com/

NiL,

[George]

If you want a cheap, fast and reliable portable storage device, I'd recommend the ImageTank G2. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of some of the other ones, but you can pick up a 40Gb device for

[Pekka]

Which portable storage device has

a) write verify (bit by bit compare between card and HDD after backup)?
b) USB2 card reader (fast speed backup and reads)?
c) standard batteries/rechargeables AA's.

Also, is there any device that can display 10D RAW from its HDD?

I have X's Drive 1 and its battery got dead when being a long time attached to its power cable (I mostly use it as a reader). It is also very unreliable, power hungry and slow.

[Spinners]

why buy a 1GB microdrive instead of a 1GB flash.. Flash memory is much faster, and is less likely to crash..

just curios?

[CyberDyneSystems]

You shouldn't buy a Microdrive. Unlees they re;ease a 6+ gig version they are obsolete.

[EricvZ]

See website for different type of portable storage.

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/product_info.php?cPath=74_96&products_id=252

BFN, EricvZ

[Webster]

I have had a Disk Steno for a couple of weeks, and have been putting it through its paces. It takes about twenty minutes to burn a 512M card with error checking, and about five minutes without. After a WHOLE LOT of CDs burned without error I might, in a moment of desperation, trust a card full of pictures to a write without check. And I'll probably regret it.

I was able to burn nine CDs on a single battery charge. I assume that number will go down as the battery ages. I've done stupid things with it (no, I didn't drop it while it was writing, honest I didn't) and gotten write errors, but other than a few ruined CD-Rs, there's been no lasting damage. You can not successfully burn a CD in a moving car.

The battery is removable, but is not a common form factor, and I was not able to locate a spare one on the web. I might try to contact Apacer, or I might just live with the one.

I thought long and hard about portable storage, and decided on the Disk Steno because of the volatility factor. I just didn't want to trust all the pictures from a trip on a single hard disk.

[hurry]

Pekka wrote:

I have X's Drive 1 and its battery got dead when being a long time attached to its power cable (I mostly use it as a reader). It is also very unreliable, power hungry and slow.



I'm using XdriveII with 40 gb with CF/SMC/MMC/SD/xD and it works well.

Important pictures are saved twice.

Price is now ~ Euro 249

[jduncan]

nixvue vista displays canon raw. on this page...

http://www.nixvue.com/products/vista/index.html

it mentions 1d and d60 raw.. while on this page..

http://www.nixvue.com/support/updates/firmware-history-vista.html

it relates the new firmware which allows 10d raw files to be displayed

james

[Pekka]

hurry wrote:
Pekka wrote:

I have X's Drive 1 and its battery got dead when being a long time attached to its power cable (I mostly use it as a reader). It is also very unreliable, power hungry and slow.



I'm using XdriveII with 40 gb with CF/SMC/MMC/SD/xD and it works well.

Important pictures are saved twice.

Price is now ~ Euro 249


Have you had ANY corrupted data with it?

BTW: I found a nice page about all those devices in http://www.rawbw.com/~ewedel/Photo/PortableStorage/

[Longwatcher]

jduncan wrote:
nixvue vista displays canon raw. on this page...

http://www.nixvue.com/products/vista/index.html

it mentions 1d and d60 raw.. while on this page..

http://www.nixvue.com/support/updates/firmware-history-vista.html

it relates the new firmware which allows 10d raw files to be displayed

james

I have a 30 gig Delkin Picture Pad (same thing as nixvue)
and I can verify the new firmware will allow you to view 10D Raw images.

So far my only gripe is battery life on the picture pad. No lost images from picture pad.

Almost forgot, the new firmware also allows for bit-by-bit verification. takes longer then the download in the first place. I am not likely to use often as it uses up battery I could use for another card download and I have never lost an image yet. (knock on wood)