I have the Compact Drive PD6A 60gb unit and am quite happy with it's speed and usage.
-- Best regards, Bruce Tuesday, January 25, 2005, 3:02:49 PM, you wrote: RS> On 25 Jan 2005 at 13:50, Juan Buhler wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> >> Would you mind telling what device this is? I have an ipod, but the >> card reading solution is very limited. The Belkin device I have takes >> forever to download a 2GB card, and uses up most of the battery >> charge. I've been thinking about getting something dedicated... RS> Hi Juan, RS> Cut from my post to the list back in Nov 04: RS> Hi Team, RS> I've recently exchanged my X-Drive II for a Compact Drive PD7X. This unit is RS> pretty inexpensive, it's about US$30 more than the X-Drive II but it offers a RS> few significant advantages. RS> It copies media to the local HDD at 4x the speed of the X-Drive, it verifies RS> the transfer, it displays remaining space on the media/HDD in MB/GB and it is RS> powered via 4x AA NiMH cells. It also has a more robust extruded aluminium case RS> and a neat pouch that can be worn on a belt. RS> Independent test have confirmed it's potential to transfer 30GB in the field on RS> a single set of 2100mAh batteries. RS> I bought the chassis bare and swapped over the HDD, it mounted without further RS> intervention. RS> Anyhow if anyone wants to see more details: RS> http://www.3hdigital.com/en/product.htm RS> http://fhoude34.free.fr/PD7x%20Review.htm RS> Cheers, RS> Rob Studdert RS> HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA RS> Tel +61-2-9554-4110 RS> UTC(GMT) +10 Hours RS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] RS> http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ RS> Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
