Digital storage

[wrxx]

Does anyone have any experience with the Image Tank or the Digital Wallet or another like product?

I'm about to buy one & guidance would be nice.

Thanks.

Matthew

[robertwgross]

I have no experience with those two brands. However, I just purchased the Vosonic X's-Drive VP-2030 from Computer Geeks. It is sold without any hard disk, but CG sells 2.5-inch laptop-type hard disks also, so I got a 5GB disk to go into Vosonic. By installing the disk myself, I kind of know what is in there, so if I outgrow the 5GB after a year, I can purchase something larger and replace that (without changing the overall package).

I just received this thingy, so it is on its first battery charge-up now. Once that is done, I will have to format the hard disk. Then I can check out its operation and I can report later.

The good news is that the thing and the disk and shipping together came to less than US$140, and that is much less than the other alternatives. The package is somewhat larger than a pack of playing cards.

If you pay a lot more money, you can get the newer Vosonic model with USB 2 instead of USB 1.1, etc.

---Bob Gross---

[Morden]

Does anyone have any experience with the Image Tank or the Digital Wallet or another like product?
I have a 10 GB Digital Wallet. I find it very useful. Although the batteries will only guarantee the transfer of two full 1 GB Microdrives, this means that, when I take my two Microdrives and my Digital Wallet, I can shoot 4 GB of images (around 620 CRW raw files) betwwen visits to a power outlet.

The Digital Wallet is a simplistic device, but carries out it's prime purpose - freeing up my CF media - very well.

[robertwgross]

robertwgross wrote:
... the Vosonic X's-Drive VP-2030 ...
---Bob Gross---

Yes, I think this storage thing is going to work. The internal lithium battery took a normal charge. The 5GB hard disk was simple to physically install. The USB connection to the desktop computer worked. My one concern is the microscopic size of the USB cable connector at the storage device end. I hope it is reliable. Once the desktop computer could "see" it, then formatting the disk was straightforward. I stuck a compact flash card into the storage thing's CF slot, and it could copy those files to the new 5GB hard disk. Then I could copy from the 5GB hard disk to the desktop computer. It has slots for the other types of flash memory cards, but I don't use any but normal CF.

Hmmm. That is about it. Ten ounces.

I envision using this when I am shooting for several days or more with no AC power available, and a whole laptop computer would be too heavy to carry around on my back.

---Bob Gross---