I need more portable storage... [Archive] - Canon Digital Photography Forums

Malaxos1

11th of November 2004 (Thu), 13:33

I am doing a wedding about three hours away from my house and will not have the convenience of downloading the photos from the rehearsal the night before on the computer. I am using a D20 with two 512MB cards. I have shot in fine JPEG at all of the other weddings I have done in the past few years, but wouldn't mind shooting RAW for some of the more formal shots. I would like the best bang for the buck for a portable storage tank that is at least 20GB. I found this on ebay. Is it any good? Is there something else I should consider?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=18871&item=3851402 434&rd=1

CyberDyneSystems

11th of November 2004 (Thu), 13:37

Another place to look..

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/

commando

11th of November 2004 (Thu), 13:38

I read a review of a few of these very recently. It was either wired or the new york times. It'd definitely be worth your while to find the article, I just had a look and couldn't find it, sorry.

FlyingPete

11th of November 2004 (Thu), 18:06

I have a X'S Drive II that I ordered from www.mydigitaldiscount.com, it works great in principal, and has saved me carrying a laptop on holidays etc, however two things I don't like about it that were not obvious before purchase, the first is the speed to download, when I am in the middle of a lot of shooting it can be too slow (I have bought a couple more cards to get around this) the second is the battery, it only does microdorives on a full charge, and I defianlty don't get the claimed 2 hours out of it!

But hey, it was cheap at the time. I am now tempted to just by a heap of CF cards, they are so cheap now.

jads

22nd of November 2004 (Mon), 00:29

I have a X'S Drive II that I ordered from www.mydigitaldiscount.com, it works great in principal, and has saved me carrying a laptop on holidays etc, however two things I don't like about it that were not obvious before purchase, the first is the speed to download, when I am in the middle of a lot of shooting it can be too slow (I have bought a couple more cards to get around this) the second is the battery, it only does microdorives on a full charge, and I defianlty don't get the claimed 2 hours out of it!

But hey, it was cheap at the time. I am now tempted to just by a heap of CF cards, they are so cheap now.

check this place out as well. They are pretty cheap - 1 gb 52x approx $175 AUD. www.powerinnumbers.com.au