Mobile storage question

I'm interested in buying a storage device to carry on a 4 week motorcycle
tour of Europe (I'm in the UK). It needs to hold in excess of 40Gb or I'll
simply buy a couple more 8Gb cards. Could someone please point me at the
names of products so I can Google them and do some research.

John

On 2010-09-19 13:41:51 -0700, "eatmorepies" said:

I'm interested in buying a storage device to carry on a 4 week motorcycle
tour of Europe (I'm in the UK). It needs to hold in excess of 40Gb or I'll
simply buy a couple more 8Gb cards. Could someone please point me at the
names of products so I can Google them and do some research.

John

I use the HyperDrive ColorSpace UDMA 250GB
It has slots for different cards, CF, SD, etc. Does quick incremental
saves, battery life is very good.
User replacable battery and easy to upgrade the HD.
I recharge via USB when connected to my laptop
They also have an accessory AA battery pack, with my usage, I have not
needed one of those, but it might be useful away from a power source
for more than a week.


http://www.hyperdrive.com/HyperDrive.../hdcsu-250.htm

They have some other options;
http://www.hypershop.com/category-s/119.htm

I think these are the best value in this type of storage short of a
pocket USB or Firewire HD and a laptop.

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Regards,

Savageduck

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:41:51 +0100, "eatmorepies"
wrote:

I'm interested in buying a storage device to carry on a 4 week motorcycle
tour of Europe (I'm in the UK). It needs to hold in excess of 40Gb or I'll
simply buy a couple more 8Gb cards. Could someone please point me at the
names of products so I can Google them and do some research.

I just went through two getting ready for a trip to europe. See the
thread: A tale of two Image Tanks - Initial Impressions

On 2010-09-19 14:25:12 -0700, Gettamulla Tupya
said:

On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:41:51 +0100, "eatmorepies"
wrote:

I'm interested in buying a storage device to carry on a 4 week motorcycle
tour of Europe (I'm in the UK). It needs to hold in excess of 40Gb or I'll
simply buy a couple more 8Gb cards. Could someone please point me at the
names of products so I can Google them and do some research.

In terms of portability, buy more cards.

True, but this is not necessarily about saving on buying more cards.
I can say making regular saves to my HyperDrive Colorspace UDMA and
Laptop saved me from losing two weeks of shots on a trip to Africa when
my D300, a 16GB & 2 x 8GB CF cards (and some other stuff) were stolen.
As a result I only lost 10 shots taken after my regular save that
morning.

So if it is a case of not wanting to carry a laptop, a device such as
the HyperDrive Colorspace UDMA, or even an iPod, can be easily packed,
and is insurance over and above any number of cards you might have with
you.

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Regards,

Savageduck

"eatmorepies" wrote in message
...
I'm interested in buying a storage device to carry on a 4 week motorcycle
tour of Europe (I'm in the UK). It needs to hold in excess of 40Gb or I'll
simply buy a couple more 8Gb cards. Could someone please point me at the
names of products so I can Google them and do some research.

John


I've been using a Jobo "Giga One" for some years. It's pretty basic;
simply copies the files to a hard disc and you have to take it on trust that
it's worked. The first time I did it on the road, without a laptop, I took
a deep breath before deleting the images from the card. But it has always
done what it claims to.

Looks like they don't make that model anymore but they have others available
now.

e.g. http://www.jobo.com/web/GIGA-one-SONIC.449.0.html

Bruce wrote:
From experience I would avoid anything from Jobo. I lost about a
third of the shots from a job thanks to mechanical failure of a Jobo
Giga One hard drive (the other shots were still on CF cards) and had
to re-shoot part of the job.

In all fairness this isn't something that's unique to Jobo, given that
they didn't manufacture the hard drive that failed.

If it's important, back it up. Twice. This is as true in the field as
it is anywhere else.

- Solomon [who has had every make of hard drive fail at one point or another]
--
Solomon Peachy pizza at shaftnet dot org
Melbourne, FL ^^ (mail/jabber/gtalk) ^^
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

On 2010-09-21 03:23:35 -0700, "Graham Harrison"
said:


"eatmorepies" wrote in message
...
I'm interested in buying a storage device to carry on a 4 week
motorcycle tour of Europe (I'm in the UK). It needs to hold in excess
of 40Gb or I'll simply buy a couple more 8Gb cards. Could someone
please point me at the names of products so I can Google them and do
some research.

John


I've been using a Jobo "Giga One" for some years. It's pretty basic;
simply copies the files to a hard disc and you have to take it on trust
that it's worked. The first time I did it on the road, without a
laptop, I took a deep breath before deleting the images from the card.
But it has always done what it claims to.

Looks like they don't make that model anymore but they have others
available now.

e.g. http://www.jobo.com/web/GIGA-one-SONIC.449.0.html

When traveling I always tried to have enough, and extra CF cards. I use
my Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA as part of a redundant backup protocol,
not as a way to free up CF memory space. CF and SD cards are relatively
inexpensive today. and I would only choose to clear a card if I was in
dire need, and only once I had two parts of my redundant backup
established. That would be CF - UDMA - Laptop (+ outboard HD).
That said, in a pinch, I trust the Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA enough to
clear a memory card after saving the contents, if that was the only way
I could continue shooting in a compelling situation.
http://www.hypershop.com/category-s/119.htm

Remember, always have enough CF/SD cards on hand for your expected
daily shoot. The mobile storage should only be part of a redundant
backup system.

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Regards,

Savageduck