Battery harddrive

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Hi is there such thing as a battery harddrive to transfer my images fron card when out abd about regards
 
There used to be battery powered storage devices available, not sure if they still are really.
You can (I think) get an adaptor which allows you to plug your cf/sd card into your ipod and dump the files onto it's hd.
 
ipod device seems a good idea is there one for the iphone
 
You're welcome David. There may be others around that are cheaper and some that are megabucks, but at least it gives you an idea of whats out there.
 
Have a look at photobank

Epson = rip off and there is another rip off one as well.
 
You can get portable hard drives just to dump stuff on to (cheap) or you can get them with built-in card readers for reasonable money, then there are the Epson/Canon/Vosonic/Jobos with nice LCDs which are a bit more pricey.

Vosonic looks best value. I've often thought of getting one, but somehow it's never got that far up the prioirty list. Lots on Amazon.
 
I use a Netbook and a Verbatim HDD as extra memory. The advantage of that (to me) over the photovault device I used to use is that I have PSE2 loaded on the Netbook so can do a little very basic editting and print to a Canon Selphy DyeSub for postcards and /or prints as gifts.
 
The Espon PSDs (Photo Storage Devices) are very, very expensive and slow. I own three PSDs and use two of them.

The Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA is very, very fast. It's £200 with no hard drive. The drive can be picked up for around £40 for a 500 GB model.

Slightly slower, but only £197 for the 500 GB model is the Nexto ND2700.

Both have great battery life and are perfect for backing up on holiday. I use both to give me two backups.
 
swanseamale47 said:
Thats nearly £300, you could get a second hand laptop for less and be able to edit and surf the net.
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That's the way I'd go, and I think it what most camera manufacture think too, Canon don't really push the Canon Media Storage M30, then again at £450 for 30GB maybe the know better.

Another thought, with the price of memory cards, would it not be simpler just to buy more cards than any sort of storage device £300 is going to give you 70+ Gb of Sandisk Extreme memory. OK nowhere near a 500GB hard drive, but a lot easier to carry around all day.
 
I used to use a Fotochute Smartdisk (20gig and around £60) when my camera was a Canon s2 is.

Now I find it easier to carry a few compact flash cards (3 X 8 & 1X 16 GB) as 20 gig is soon filled when shooting raw+jpg.

Not to mention time wasted transferring data from camera to disk only to repeat process (from portable disk to main storage) when you get home.
 
gtc said:
Hi Little John are you using one of these and if so how big is your hhd regards
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I have a 160GB drive in there at the moment, I did have a 40 then an 80 but when my old laptop died a year or so ago I pulled the hard drive from it and dropped it in there.
 
Little John said:
Buy one of these
http://www.scan.co.uk/products/thec...orage-with-otg-(on-the-go)-usb-and-aa-battery

and a hard drive to go inside it connect your camera to it and press the copy button.

works perfectly for me
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How fast is it? They claim 480 Mbps which is obviously total ********. That's the maximum possible transfer rate of the USB2 interface and nothing in the known universe can reach that rate.

Ah, look! Here's an independant review. Hmmm, between 2.5 and 4 MB/s - that's very, very slow. It's take over half an hour to download an 8GB card. My Hyperdrive does the same in 4 minutes.

Oh, and I've just notice that it only takes IDE drives, not SATA. That's OK if you've got an ancient 2.5" drive lying around. Not so good if you want to buy one as they're more expensive than SATA.
 
It all depends what you use it for, I have enough cards to shoot all day on 2 cameras so the transfer usually happens after I have finished anyway and it is only very occasionally I use it on battery more often than not I transfer to the laptop and then to the drive as a backup.

If your worried about the price difference between PATA and SATA 2.5" drives but happy to spend £190 more on the Hyperdrive in the first place? The Thecus drive depends on the source to have a decent transfer rate as well where the hyperdrive you just pop the card in the built in reader. Things have moved on since I got the Thecus I have had it a good few years but for the occasioanal use it does the job.

It is all about the money if you have £230 then get the Hyperdrive and a hard drive if you have a £45 then the Thecus option will do but it has its limitations.
 
Hi Little John,

Have you ever tried to transfer 8gb by using the unit with AA batteries please?

Thanks,

Tracey
 
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Little John said:
It all depends what you use it for, I have enough cards to shoot all day on 2 cameras so the transfer usually happens after I have finished anyway and it is only very occasionally I use it on battery more often than not I transfer to the laptop and then to the drive as a backup.
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In that case speed of transfer from card to PSD isn't that important. It's when the PSD is being used as the sole backup method that speed becomes important. Especially if you're somewhere that doesn't have reliable electricity - two 30 minute backups of 8GB each could well finish off the battery.
 
Worth taking a look at the Camera Buddy range? AFAIK these have a built in rechargeable battery and weigh in at c. £90-150 depending on capacity...
 
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