Storage drive or just limit number of shots I take?

You won't be needing the Nexto drive when you get back from your holiday as you mentioned. So I'd go for the extra CF cards. You may not need them when you get back, but I guarantee you that one day you'll be glad you have extra cards around when you forget yours in the reader at home.

Last vacation, 6 weeks total, approx 31GB of pics were taken. All pics after first week were RAW, only a few before that. It was not a photography holiday however I did take a lot of pics with my 350D (Rebel XT)
We did take 2 Vosonic drives and 4x1GB cards. Didn't shoot more than 2.5 GB in any one day. Somedays when we were travelling didn't shoot very much at all. Backed up the cards to both drives (duplication) every night. My wife carried one & its recharger & I carried the other, with its recharger. Took 5 batteries for the camera, 3 would have been more than enough.
The cost of back up was 2% of the total cost of the vactation.
That's cheap for peace of mind.
Richard
PS: I didn't loose any photographs & I will have the drives for my next longish vacation.

Storage drive or just limit number of shots I take???

Storage drive dude, or go buy some more CF cards. 4 gig MDs are cheap now.

Anke wrote in post #2574129
Thanks guys. I do now know I need more storage. Question is, do I spend my budgeted £150 on 6GB of good quality CF or lug a Nexto PSD around?

As I say above, you can buy a 4gb card for £18 from 7dayshop and there is no problem with them. Why do you need to spend £150 for 6gb? 'Good quality' for me means you are paying for brand name ... I have never had a problem with any memory card across numerous unknown brands. I doubt there are too many factories making CF cards. Maybe the expensive ones just have expensive labels I accidentally stood on one cheapo SD card a few years ago and it was a Sandisk inside!

Anke wrote in post #2574338
Internet cafe. Gambia. ))))

I have travelled all over the world, including Africa, and extremely rare not to find an internet cafe, whether there are tourists around or not. They may be dial up but that is irrelevant for burning CD's. Take a USB card reader just in case they don't have one and a couple of cd's.

Consider the fact that on a per-GB basis, harddrives are cheap and CF is expensive, comparatively. If 80GB of storage on a card reader/harddrive can be had for $200, that gets you maybe 5 or 6 CF of 2GB each. And if your photos are 9MB 8Mpixel images, and 2MB CF is good for about 200 photos each, or 1200 photos in the 6 CF. For 2 weeks that will force you to be conservative in shooting, and I am speaking even with conservative film consumption in my photographic genes of 40 years!

Thanks everyone. To stop me worrying and actually enjoy my holiday I just purchased a Nexto Storage Device. 80GB for £150 and it can download of a CF card at a speed of 1GB every 52 seconds. A work colleague said to me that if I didn't want it when I got back, he'd buy it anyway I'm sure I'll wonder what I ever did without it

For a much cheaper alternative, you can get something like this
http://www.newegg.com ….asp?Item=N82E1​6822110001
and pair it up with your favorite laptop hard drive
like this
http://www.newegg.com ….asp?Item=N82E1​6822144374

You can never have too much storage. My storage two storage devices both failed in Uganda last year. Fortunately I had 16 GB of camera memory (4 GB CF, 2x2 GB CF and 2x4 GB microdrives) with me. I switched from shooting RAW to JPEG and managed to do about 3 weeks of shooting on just the CF cards and microdrives. If your photos are valuable to you, you should have redundant methods of backing them up and far more capacity than you need.

The time to decide which shots are keepers is when you get home and have time to look at them in detail on the computer. I would not want to have to pass on possibly good shots because I might run out of memorr.