Portable Hard Drives

After spending many hours transferring all my shots onto CD after each match (rather tedious), I have decided to invest in a portable hard drive.

I'm looking for something under £70 and have heard that companies such as western digital and seagate are good.

If any of you have and use a portable hard drive that you get on well with coulod you please recommend it

Thanks

tom

seriously mate have a search, this comes up almost daily..

That is not a lot of money, but there are a few out there. Do a search "Portable drives" and some threads will come up. I didn't go the route of getting a portable drive, I bought 16 gb of CF cards instead and that should be plenty for one event.

i use WD for all my portable hard drives haven't had a problem with them yet

I think i meant external hard drive.

I have no problem in having enough memory on a shoot, i just need somewhere to store them permamently

I use Seagate drives for my external storage. You can either get their Free Agent stand-alones or their internal drives and a third-party case. I've done both.

I use Seagate and Iomega

I use a Seagate Freeagent 500 GIG and an IOMEGA 320 GIG hard drive to backup my desktop computer.

I have two small (in physical size) portable hardrives to back up my notebook.

Having my data backed up on the computer hard drives plus TWO external bakups makes me feel very confident of its security and has helped me retain data which might have been lost otherwise.

The hard drive of my previous desktop computer became corrupted and my technician recommended that he copy my data - erase the hard drive and reformat the drive; then reload the programs and the data files. He copied my data and my wife's data and the erased the hard drive. Unfortunately, I had some very important data on the "shared data" section. That was never copied and could have been lost except that I had the data backed up on my first external harddrive which was a tiny Cigar 20 GIG drive. That backup saved some very important business information.

I do use WD passport series. No matter what drive you buy.........always....​....always back up your data to a secondary drive.

WD 500GB My Book at home and WD 320GB My Pasport with laptop. Working great and fast transfers.

The only viable "portable" solution is a bus powered hard drive like this one sold at macsales.com.

http://eshop.macsales.​com/shop/firewire/on-the-go

This is a small 2.5" notebook hard drive in a case that does not need ac power. it is small enough to take with you and with FW800, it is a very fast interface.

Check it out!

For permanent storage, I've started using Blu-Ray discs after I had a few external hard drives go bad.

HankScorpio wrote in post #6208468
For permanent storage, I've started using Blu-Ray discs after I had a few external hard drives go bad.

Blu-Ray is still an optical disc techology which relies upon the use of organic dyes, so while it has far greater capacity than CD and DVD, it nevertheless has the same ultimate longevity issues of all organic dyes, and the so-called 'permanence' is at best questionable!

Wilt wrote in post #6209540
Blu-Ray is still an optical disc techology which relies upon the use of organic dyes, so while it has far greater capacity than CD and DVD, it nevertheless has the same ultimate longevity issues of all organic dyes, and the so-called 'permanence' is at best questionable!

It's as permanent as I think I'll ever need given that within a few years, technology will have moved on and the images will be transferred to a new medium, hopefully something involving parallel dimensions . In the mean time I feel happier with my stuff on safely stored optical disks than I do hard drives with bits that can fail and sectors that can become corrupted from the slightest touch of a read/write head.

Go with a drobo unit, you can pop 4 hdd, and switch them out on the fly once it gets full. Its a great little box, but cost wise it is on the more expensive side. You can then have a closet full of hdd with all your archieved photos.

keitaro wrote in post #6210928
Go with a drobo unit, you can pop 4 hdd, and switch them out on the fly once it gets full. Its a great little box, but cost wise it is on the more expensive side. You can then have a closet full of hdd with all your archieved photos.

From what I've read, the unit is slow. The second major problem (maybe the first), is that they have almost non-existent support. It seems they hardly answer the phone or email. Read the NewEgg reviews. I was considering one until I read the reviews.