I'm interested in any suggestions regarding storage of digital files. I am going on a month's diving trip (4 dives a day), I will be shooting RAW and will have a laptop with a CD burner and have about 20gb available space. I think I should probably have another method of storage and am considering buying a LaCie 80gb external pocket hardrive. Any suggestions or informationwill be greatfully accepted. Thanks
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Started by teriperry, Nov 20 2003 08:33 PM
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Posted 20 November 2003 - 08:33 PM
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Posted 22 November 2003 - 01:21 PM
Hi teriperry
The LaCie 80gb external pocketdrive is an excellent choice. I know several photographers who wouldn't leave home without one. Because its a Firewire drive the transfer is very fast. Its also a very quiet drive. A friend of mine who is a dealer for them told me the drive can also be configured as a bootable start-up drive for your laptop (at least for a Mac, not sure about a PC), which would be nice in the event of laptop hard drive problems when on the road.
The LaCie 80gb external pocketdrive is an excellent choice. I know several photographers who wouldn't leave home without one. Because its a Firewire drive the transfer is very fast. Its also a very quiet drive. A friend of mine who is a dealer for them told me the drive can also be configured as a bootable start-up drive for your laptop (at least for a Mac, not sure about a PC), which would be nice in the event of laptop hard drive problems when on the road.
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Posted 22 November 2003 - 01:49 PM
That's sounds fine. If it's a PC I'd advise against running it all the time. PC notebooks don't power their firewire ports like macs do and wall power on trips can be unreliable. Instead, use it for periodic backups if you can. It's possible that a USB2 drive will be port-powered so that might be an alternative.
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Posted 22 November 2003 - 02:17 PM
Most USB2 drives need additional power to be "bus powered." The one I have uses TWO USB ports to get the necessary power, and some use the PS/2 port in addition to a USB port.
Mine is firewire 6-pin and USB 2.0 (with special cable for bus power).
Mine is firewire 6-pin and USB 2.0 (with special cable for bus power).
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Posted 22 November 2003 - 02:18 PM
I just purchased and received an Addonics MFR which is a CD-R, CD-RW burner, DVD player with a flash card slot on the end and a nicad battery pack that fits on the end. Just drop in a blank CD-R, insert your cameras flash card ( I use a 1 gig microdrive, 512 mb CF card and Olympus Xd cards with an Xd-CF adapter) and press 1 button twice. It burns a 256 mb Xd card to CD-R in less than 15 minutes. It also can burn multiple cards to 1 CD-R. So far I've burned 6 multicard CD-Rs without having to charge the battery, which took about 5 hours the first time I charged it. It came with a case, charger, tv cord, and USB cord. So far no problems. www.addonics.com
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