...from a prosumer / tourist point of view.
Just thought I'd share...
I got an X-drive Pro with 40 gb before my recent trip mainly because I got sick of buying CF cards with prices dropping like flies.
So...I was armed with one 256 card and two 128 cards on my 5 nights trip together with my X-drive pro and had a great time.
The X-drive was carefully cradled in my camera bag from home to hotel and vice-versa. Once reaching the hotel it sat in the hotel's safe. During the day when I was out my cards served me well and stored all my JPEG FINE (Large) pictures - average 3mb each picture.
At night when I returned, I would plug my D70 into the hotel's TV, view the pics with my wife and delete those OBVIOUSLY bad prints (note: if in doubt, don't delete) and then chuck the CF card into the X-Drive, press copy, went to brush me teeth and when I come out one fully loaded 256 card is done copying, the rest of the 128s were a breeze after that. THat was our nightly ritual and no complaints at all. When I reached home all the files were intact and I'm a happy DSLR user. :lovegrin:
Of course this is from a tourist/prosumer point of view. I'm saying this because the X-drive's speed of transfer is not as fast as those higher end versions and they don't offer a nice glossy LCD panel for seeing your pics but hey...it still works...all for around S$300 from Eastgear.
There's beauty (and value) in simple technology. :thumbsup:
Cheers
Just thought I'd share...
I got an X-drive Pro with 40 gb before my recent trip mainly because I got sick of buying CF cards with prices dropping like flies.
So...I was armed with one 256 card and two 128 cards on my 5 nights trip together with my X-drive pro and had a great time.
The X-drive was carefully cradled in my camera bag from home to hotel and vice-versa. Once reaching the hotel it sat in the hotel's safe. During the day when I was out my cards served me well and stored all my JPEG FINE (Large) pictures - average 3mb each picture.
At night when I returned, I would plug my D70 into the hotel's TV, view the pics with my wife and delete those OBVIOUSLY bad prints (note: if in doubt, don't delete) and then chuck the CF card into the X-Drive, press copy, went to brush me teeth and when I come out one fully loaded 256 card is done copying, the rest of the 128s were a breeze after that. THat was our nightly ritual and no complaints at all. When I reached home all the files were intact and I'm a happy DSLR user. :lovegrin:
Of course this is from a tourist/prosumer point of view. I'm saying this because the X-drive's speed of transfer is not as fast as those higher end versions and they don't offer a nice glossy LCD panel for seeing your pics but hey...it still works...all for around S$300 from Eastgear.
There's beauty (and value) in simple technology. :thumbsup:
Cheers