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« on: June 30, 2009, 11:53:58 AM » |
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When I'm travelling abroad I used to carry about a conventional 80gig hard-drive to back-up my photo's but this is crazy... http://www.dpreview.com/news/0906/09061702kingston128gbusb.asp... thing is, the reason I use small CF cards in the camera is that if one goes wrong I don't lose too many photo's (I actually alternate them in my camera day-to-day so I don't lose an entire country if one goes pop)... so would this, as a back-up, be more reliable than a conventional drive?... I think it'd be able to take more abuse (shock/heat etc)... & it's lighter in my backpack... could be handy  |
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« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2009, 12:09:34 PM » |
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Is that really as small as it looks?  (about the size of a normal USB drive) I think I'd rather carry a couple of the smaller 32 or 64Gb ones as a method of backing up while I was travelling away... "just in case" |
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« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2009, 02:12:43 PM » |
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Well solid state stuff can take a MUCH bigger battering than your more "conventional" hard drives, however it's still a single point of failure. I try personally to not rely on having stuff in only one place if it's important to me.
Another inhibiting factor may be the (what I assume will be) ridiculously high price.
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« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2009, 02:21:14 PM » |
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Another inhibiting factor may be the (what I assume will be) ridiculously high price.
I think that may be the case as the report says all the 128GB flash drives are to be special build/special order... however, if someone were to offer to buy me one, I wouldnt say no  |
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2009, 02:47:59 PM » |
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Yeah... in real terms I'd go for a 32gig (or 2 on the eggs/basket principle) if I was going travelling for a while now. Expensive now but these things will be given away free in xmas crackers in a couple of years the rate things are changing... but then I'll need something a bit bigger when I've got a 6 gigapixel holographic Camera... what will I do with my old 2D lenses?  |
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« Reply #5 on: July 02, 2009, 01:43:53 PM » |
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While in Mexico, we had two 2 gig chips for the camera. We never needed any more than that. Every night Zars would download the photos onto a laptop HD and also onto 8 gig sticks. When we got back to Lazaro Cardenas Zars would burn the photos onto DVDs. We never lost a single photo doing it that way. Lotta mucking around, but it worked.
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« Reply #6 on: July 02, 2009, 01:52:00 PM » |
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We did something similar when we went to the US... but we didnt have the luxury of a DVD writer, so all the photos were backed up onto USB sticks.
I dont know whether I prefer carrying multiple small capacity USB sticks or one or two bigger ones
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« Reply #7 on: July 02, 2009, 02:02:02 PM » |
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IMHO...lots of smaller ones are better. Hell they aren't that big!!!
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« Reply #8 on: July 07, 2009, 12:56:26 PM » |
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Well the current price for a 32GB Kingston Flash drive is £41+VAT. Not bad in my eyes.
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« Reply #9 on: July 07, 2009, 01:44:02 PM » |
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So that's still not far off a quid a gig which is pretty much what I paid for smaller ones recently... not bad.
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