Traveling to India - what portable storage to take?

If you are a light traveler and don't want to process, bring a hard drive and/or some usb flash drives. Every few days backup using someone's computer, or to the internet. As you travel, buy more memory if you need.

hollis_f wrote in post #15558812
India uses 230/240V @ 50 Hz - the same as here in the UK.

An awful lot of devices of all sorts these days can handle 110-240V 50-60 Hz as Macs pretty much have always done.

Most laptops have a universal power supply, as do most desktop PCs. Some desktop machines require a switch on the back to be thrown but most laptop supplies will "eat" anything from 100-240V, 50-60HZ, quite happily.

There's nothing particularly complicated about building a switching power supply that will do that. The only remaining issue is the physical plug which varies depending on where you are in the world, but adapters are cheap and easily found.

Just make sure your power brick is labeled to be able to accept what you intend to feed it before you plug it in.

Simon_Gardner wrote in post #15563017
An awful lot of devices of all sorts these days can handle 110-240V 50-60 Hz as Macs pretty much have always done.

The only photo and/or computing-related devices in the last 20 years that did not have universal power supplies were battery chargers. Devices with motors are many times not universal. The most important spec to pay attention to is frequency, not voltage. Make sure it can handle 50 and 60 Hz. You can always get a transformer to convert the voltage, but the frequency remains. If you try to run a 60Hz device from 50Hz power, it will usually overheat, sometimes fatally (to the device, not you).

tickerguy wrote in post #15564295
The only remaining issue is the physical plug which varies depending on where you are in the world, but adapters are cheap and easily found.

These days I take a bare-cable distribution board or two of my domestic sockets, buy a local plug and just wire it on. I like wiring stuff.

A Netbook for $300 - gives you internet access and it is a 500 GB hard drive and photo viewer

Andrushka wrote in post #15564883
A Netbook for $300 - gives you internet access and it is a 500 GB hard drive and photo viewer

And is three times the size and weight of a Photo Storage Device like the ColorSpace. Which can be the decision maker when travelling.

hollis_f wrote in post #15565192
And is three times the size and weight of a Photo Storage Device like the ColorSpace. Which can be the decision maker when travelling.

Yes, of course. BUT a netbook fulfills multiple useful travel tasks... entertainment, communications, planning and the aforementioned photo related chores.

I've used a hyperdrive in India. No problem.

Where are you going in India?

hollis_f wrote in post #15565192
And is three times the size and weight of a Photo Storage Device like the ColorSpace. Which can be the decision maker when travelling.

this? http://www.hypershop.c​om …Drive-COLORSPACE-s/23.htm

jonneymendoza wrote in post #15568768
this? http://www.hypershop.c​om …Drive-COLORSPACE-s/23.htm

This

hollis_f wrote in post #15568893
This

How does it work? put your cf card in one end and a external hdd on the other and do a backup?

jonneymendoza wrote in post #15570108
How does it work? put your cf card in one end and a external hdd on the other and do a backup?

You can buy the ColorSpace with a HDD inside or, as I've linked to, a bare casing. Most people (those with enough technological nous to know which end of a screwdriver goes in the hand) would be better off buying the casing and getting a 2.5" HDD separately as it tends to work out cheaper (especially if you've got a spare one sitting around at home). Somethng like this - LINK.

When you want to backup a card you switch the ColorSpace on, insert the card, select 'Backup' from the menu, wait a until it beeps to tell you it's finished, remove the card, insert the next card until you've done them all then switch the ColorSpace off. I tend to do this in the hotel room while I'm getting ready for dinner.

Once you get back home you plug the ColorSpace into your PC and download the images just as you would from a card.

Charging is done via a Mini-USB, which is handy as I already have many devices that charge the same way, so I don't need any extra charging equipment. Battery life last for ages, so it only needs charging every 4 or 5 days (handy in some parts of the world).

Just wanted to provide my update on this thread....

After considerable research, I decided to buy HyperDrive ColorsSpace (disk bought separately), and couple of high capacity CF cards. Must say that I was thoroughly impressed by the HDCS device. It is light to carry and very easy to use. Transfer speeds were reasonable (mostly during dinner type, I would pop the card in and let it transfer - within 10-15mins its done). One feature I am very impressed with is the wifi connectivity HDCS provides; with this I was able to connect my iPad to HDCS and showoff some of my photos to friends and family in India and Dubai.

My only one pet-peeve is the UI for browsing photos when accessing through iPad - it shows photos thumbnails and one has to open each photo to view. I wish there was a way to either preview and swipe photos.

I am glad I decided to get HDCS. This device is now found a permanent spot in my camera bag!

PS: some of the photos I shot will be posted in the next day or two!

Congrats on both counts. Where did you end up going?