Could you recommend a CF card backup storage device

Scam · 28 Nov 2006 at 19:29

morgan i'm surprised you bothered going to all that trouble whilst simultaneously missing the 'report to mod' button that appears under every post.. not only that but you quoted the offending link -- breaking the rules yourself...

boycee · 28 Nov 2006 at 21:14

Scam said:
morgan i'm surprised you bothered going to all that trouble whilst simultaneously missing the 'report to mod' button that appears under every post.. not only that but you quoted the offending link -- breaking the rules yourself...

To top it all off, that site I mentioned wasn't even a good price! I got mine for £15 from an auction site anyway.

Anyway, highly recommended!

morgan · 29 Nov 2006 at 08:40

Ohh, thanks for pointing that button out to me. Very helpful indeed, and thanks for informing me about the prices too. just one thing:

IT WAS A JOKE

Alex53 · 29 Nov 2006 at 11:07

I have a Wolverine 20GB drive with just an LCD screen, cost about £100 some time ago. In its limited functionality, its never let me down by losing images. Battery life could be better.

The newer Wolverine drives have interchangable batteries much like a DLSR, a screen, can display RAW, FM radio and a host of other stuff like playing videos. They also connect to a TV and can play a movie or a slideshow on it. Quite nice.

steveo · 29 Nov 2006 at 11:32

i believe canon are doing a device that you guys are on about canon m80 there is going to be a 30gb and a 80gb will support cf and sd

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 29 Nov 2006 at 11:32

I use a Epson P2000 40gig and I am over the moon with it.

Canon have now released one. There is a new Epson out which looks snazzy and also Jobo have released there evolution model and that has some very good built in advanced features

Mattw · 29 Nov 2006 at 11:34

i dont liek the idea of putting all of your images on one device as a backup

Johnny|lucidcomposure · 29 Nov 2006 at 13:00

Mattw said:
i dont liek the idea of putting all of your images on one device as a backup

For your own work Im happy to risk it. Its very rare for a hard drive to be un recoverable. If it was sent away then the data could be restored in most cases. If I shot weddings I would back up and leave the data on the cards.

Darryn · 29 Nov 2006 at 20:54

I can whole heartedly recommend the CompactDrive PD70x, I bought one a while ago and im still impressed with its performance, they have released a newer model called a "NEXTO CF" this is meant to have a 14mb/s sustained copy speed, which blows all the other similar devices out of the water, the PD70X reviewed in the link above achieved 8.5mb/s... which is still leagues ahead of all the other devices. To put it into perspective, the Canon M30 and M80 have a transfer speed of only 4.1mb/s.