I tend to buy extras of products I like that may not be around too long. The only reason I did not buy another ND-2730 is that it does not have USB OTG and I'm not sure about the future of CF. Ironically I could still probably use the 6-year only ND-2700s for XQD or other future cards because it had OTG.
If you have access to wifi, I suggest using an online backup service like Dropbox or Box. Both have free options but you can pay for additional storage. Dropbox I believe comes with 5gb free and Box can give you up to 50gb free. That should be enough for a vacation.
CFast and/or XQD will replace CF, not to mention the encroachment of SDxx.
I'm not buying any more CF cards until the next generation of camera bodies are out.
jasonyuen wrote:
If you have access to wifi, I suggest using an online backup service like Dropbox or Box. Both have free options but you can pay for additional storage. Dropbox I believe comes with 5gb free and Box can give you up to 50gb free. That should be enough for a vacation.
50GB is not much. It will fit on a single card, so there is no need for a PSD.
Of course CFast, XQD or something else will take over in the future. But you still have to buy memory cards for the camera's you use today. And not for the ones that you maybe will use in the future.
some do, some don't. I pretty much have the average I've been shooting for sometime. I never got into collecting and I haven't reached that "i filled all my cards" limit
I tried the Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA2 with a 500gb hd. It is good but the display is smaller when comparing to Epson P6000(You can upgrade to bigger HD. The older old uses PATA drive).
There are some wifi enabled portable hard drives. With that, you could access it with your phone and at the same time have an OTG cable to connect the memory card to your phone. Your phone acts as an intermediary interface to copy files over.
jasonyuen wrote:
There are some wifi enabled portable hard drives. With that, you could access it with your phone and at the same time have an OTG cable to connect the memory card to your phone. Your phone acts as an intermediary interface to copy files over.
jasonyuen wrote:
There are some wifi enabled portable hard drives. With that, you could access it with your phone and at the same time have an OTG cable to connect the memory card to your phone. Your phone acts as an intermediary interface to copy files over.
Not only will it be very slow. He is going to Iceland. And I would not belive they have wifi spots all over that country
CharChar wrote:
I tried the Hyperdrive Colorspace UDMA2 with a 500gb hd. It is good but the display is smaller when comparing to Epson P6000(You can upgrade to bigger HD. The older old uses PATA drive).
talk about slow plodding overdesigned and underpowered. are they actually still around? really the screen isn't all that relevant overall
No, they were discontinued long ago. I had one of the earlier P series. The display was good for that era, but it was slow even back then. The bizarre partioning of the hard drive with OS made replacing the drive less than simple.
Lasse Eriksson wrote:
Not only will it be very slow. He is going to Iceland. And I would not belive they have wifi spots all over that country
Actually this option is not slow and does not depend on an internet connected wifi. The hard drive itself uses wifi for connection and you could be in the middle of the desert and still backup. Something like the Seagate Wireless Plus gives you 1 TB of storage. The problem might be cost. Around $160 plus shipping on ebay. That comes to around 16 cents/gb which is much cheaper than using extra memory cards.
jasonyuen wrote:
Actually this option is not slow and does not depend on an internet connected wifi. The hard drive itself uses wifi for connection and you could be in the middle of the desert and still backup. Something like the Seagate Wireless Plus gives you 1 TB of storage. The problem might be cost. Around $160 plus shipping on ebay. That comes to around 16 cents/gb which is much cheaper than using extra memory cards.
It's going to be a whole lot slower than comparable options. The Wireless Plus supports 150 Mbps "N" - so the theoretical max is only 18 MB/s to start with, but reviewers have indicated copy speeds of only around 20-25 Mbps, a paltry 2.5 megabytes per second. A 32gb card is going to take nearly 2 hours to copy even if we assume double that reviewed transfer speed and no loss in speed from the phone having to process the copy from the external drive.
Not to mention, you then have two additional batteries to take care of - and since the Seagate drive only supports 10hrs from streaming, with reviewers indicating it gets about half that, and data copy being a much more intensive operation, you're going to be charging a lot.
