Cheap Portable Storage

I have 5 2mb CF cards and get a bit trigger happy (or should that be shutter happy) and was looking for a way of not having to take my laptop to tunisia with me when I go in may. I have read several threads on here about portable storage and decided that this for me was a better option.

Looking around I found that some of these carry a hefty price tag. Eventually I found a better way of doing it.

http://search.ebay.co.​uk …m=R40&satitle=s​torage+b14

I brought this little device and after a couple of weeks of use, think its a perfect addition to me camera bag.

I had a couple of 80GB laptop hard drives, formatted one up as FAT32(using an old 98 startup disk) and I am impressed.

It takes CF/MD/SD/MMC/MS/Smart Media and XD (although its not marked as taking XD).

Also makes a real good external hard drive.

So if your looking for a good 'cheap' portable storage device, this works a treat.

Scott

A very nicw price !

What's the battery life like, and how quick is image transfer?

Jack

Looks interesting... Can you tell us anything about it as DrJack asked?

DrJack wrote in post #2807613
What's the battery life like, and how quick is image transfer?

Jack

Right after running a few tests on it (and bearing in mind this is continuos use and not as you would probably use it in the field).

I used a 2GB(40x) CF Card Full of images (RAW) -

Transfer time: 14 mins
# of cards before it needed a charge: 6
Recharge Time: About an hour

The unit comes with a chinese PSU and a convertor (5vdc), This went straight in the bin and was replaced with a UK plug 5V PSU. It can also be charged directly from the USB port (which I prefer).

I also use it as a card reader so it charges at the same time.

Another good thing about this is the fact that it has auto shut off. Stick the card in it, tell it to copy and stick it back in your bag, after it copies its shuts down to save battery life.

Hope this helps

Scott

I am so chuffed to see this, i bought one of these from the same seller a few days ago, the price makes it seem worth a punt as i also have a spare 2.5 drive laying around.
Still waiting for my delivery, but i am slightly mroe excited now

Additionally i am really realyl pleased it charges from USB, because this is exaclty what i was looking for

Logrus wrote in post #2817827
I am so chuffed to see this, i bought one of these from the same seller a few days ago, the price makes it seem worth a punt as i also have a spare 2.5 drive laying around.
Still waiting for my delivery, but i am slightly mroe excited now

Additionally i am really realyl pleased it charges from USB, because this is exaclty what i was looking for

One thing you do have to do as I said in my first post is to format the drive as FAT32. This can only done under WIN98 if its over 32GB (XP's Limit)as the drive wont work under NTFS.

And to be perfectly honest, I think its a great unit.

CScottMcQueen wrote in post #2817977
One thing you do have to do as I said in my first post is to format the drive as FAT32. This can only done under WIN98 if its over 32GB (XP's Limit)as the drive wont work under NTFS.

I'm considering picking up this unit as well although I don't have access to any WIN98 machines.

Is there any other way to format the drive as FAT32?

Hi!

I bought this device as well (it arrived today) as you can see in this thread.

Bigmike to format the drive as FAT32 from XP you can use a software called swissknife, that's what I used and it worked very well.

Sweet! What a good find. I picked one up as well. I'll be using it with an 80GB drive and a Mac.

Holy el carpo...this thing looks EXACTLY like the SmartDisk PhotoBank. The same layout for the SD/CF cards and on/off and copy buttons. How much does one of these cost in American money.

16 pounds is something like $30 with our weak dollar.

For about 100$ you can get the Wolverine FlashPac 60G. It's plug and play and no worrying about formatting, etc. Highly recommended for someone not looking for a HD case solution. No frills, just plug in your card and dump it to the drive.

after reading this thread I ordered one of these off ebay, stuck in an old 40GB drive and voila in a matter of a couple of minutes it was up and running

pretty happy with it, it beats dragging around a laptop

I've been using mine for about a week now, with CF cards and a Mac, via USB also. It works as advertised! I have no complaints about the device and it works well.

I had a freebie 40GB laptop drive, so the overall cost was $16.99 + shipping.

EXACTLY what I needed to dump cards!