Storage Options?

[dennykyser]

I am going on vacation in June for a week and wondering what the best way is to save my images while on the road. I cant find a price or info on an X's Drive (in english & american currency)

What about copying to cd from compact flash, has anyone tried those?

If you have any sugestions and/or links, I would appreciate it.

[DaveG]

I am going on vacation in June for a week and wondering what the best way is to save my images while on the road. I cant find a price or info on an X's Drive (in english & american currency)

What about copying to cd from compact flash, has anyone tried those?

If you have any sugestions and/or links, I would appreciate it.

There's the Apacer Disc Steno and the Kanguru FC-RU (their spelling) CD burners. I think that I'm going to get one - probably the Kanguru - in a couple of months.

I'm going to pass on the Apacer Disc Steno 100 since it will not pause after the burned CD is full even though there may be more on the CF card. That can happen when the CF card has a greater capacity than a CD and that folks is a one gig card! Althought this isn't all that important to me right at the moment - since all I have are 512 meg cards, I know that I'll have bigger ones soon. I'd just hate to buy something with that much planned obselescence.

Both the newer Apacer Disk Steno 200 ($299US but probably cheaper if you look) and the Kanguru FC-RU ($199US) will pause while you change full CD's in order to let you burn the entire content of your card.

The burning CD option looks more attractive to me than a portable hard drive. First off I burn a CD as soon as I download the image files into my computer, so it's not like I'm doing anything new. Then I can make copies of the CD's in the field, a redundency that I won't get with a hard drive. CD's are stored optically not magnetically so they should be more robust. They also are incredibly cheap. And finally if I come back with 10 CD's I have much less chance of catastrophic failure than I would if I had one 30 gig hard drive failure.

The best idea (all it takes is money) would be to have a laptop computer with a CD burner built in. That way you could edit the files and burn the ones that you like. You'd then have the double redundency (there's a phrase!) of having the files on CD AND on a hard drive.

[evilenglishman]

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