Herb, I can pull the card out plug it into the x-drive hit 2 buttons put the whole lot back into my camera bag and keep shooting. It powers down automatically a couple of minutes after finishing copying. Then I swap cards and start again. I can't fit a lap top in my camera bag and to come anywhere near the capacity would cost me a fortune in cards. Besides I also use it to transfer really big files around to different computers. Battery life is about an hour and a half of actual use, but it comes with a car charger as well as a mains adaptor.
It works for me and it may work for others. I don't expect it to work for everyone. Leon On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 19:26:41 -0500, Herb Chong wrote: >i don't have the time or inclination to do transfers while out in the field. >i would rather have more memory cards. i had thought about one of these >devices a while back but decided that if the battery life on them isn't too >much different from a portable computer, i would rather have a portable >computer. > >Herb... >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Leon Altoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2003 2:01 AM >Subject: Re: card storage in the field > > >> I use 2 512 meg cards and an X-drive with 60 gig capacity. I keep one >card in the camera and the other in the small plastic box it came in. The >X-drive goes in the camera bag. >> >> X-drive details are here: >> http://www.powerinnumbers.com.au/default.asp?mode=products§ion=xdrive2 > > >
