Portable storage

[Choogster]

Does anybody use one of the multitude of portable photo storage? I`ve bought an Aqua 20 gig which is turning up today. Out on location the 4 gig memory card gets filled in no time, especially shooting in raw.

Does anybody else use one?

[Stemmy]

I use a Flashtrax 30gig. Nice bit of kit.

[england1965]

I use Flashtrax (60gb I think)

I have to run it on mains power as it doesn't seem to have enough charge to copy a 2GB CF card on one charge.

Usually not a problem as I use a laptop to cover bigger jobs.

I had problems with the system "blue screening" on start-up - but a firmware fix (downloaded from the net) fixed that.

nice and small and saves me lugging the laptop all the time

Cheers

Mark

[Stemmy]

something wrong with the battery there. Mine will do around 8 gig

[Choogster]

have you ever had any problem with memory cards messing up while copying, losing pictures on the devices etc? hardware failure?

[Stemmy]

No I have two batteries for my flashtrax. Dont let the battery run out during copying. I think thats it. Ive never had any problems.

I dont use it as much as I thought I would.

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

I got one of the very first Phototainersfrom intro2020.co.uk

It's been back to the shop once when it wouldn't start
up..

But in all honesty I never use it now.. I just carry my laptop
with me when I know i'm going to have to backup things..

I got a ad/dc plug thing for the car which if my laptop is
low in juice I can recharge it....

I also found at with once of these PCMI cards for a compactflash
it downloads 3 times as fast...

1gb (my cards) in about 7 minutes...

[tonymidd]

On a shoot I use 80x 1gig Kingston cards; got about 8 they are so cheap now £35 or less. If one misfunctions, which touch wood none have, I'd only loose 60 RAW files not 120 on a 2gig or 240 on a 4gig. These files are copied onto a dvd or cd as soon as possible but rarely on site. Don't like big cards, it's putting all your eggs in one basket.

[StagePhotography.co.uk]

Don't like big cards, it's putting all your eggs in one basket.

Agreed.... Lots of 1 GB cards for me.. Got about 4 of them..