Enablement and a question thereafter

[Boris Liberman]

Hi!

Thanks to a certain list member ;-), I am now enabled with Compact Drive 
PD7X. Wonderful little creature - can charge your batteries, can read 
your cards, can copy them onto its internal hard drive. All in all, now 
I have 12 GB more of space that I can take with me.

Here comes the question.

Say, I am a shooter shooting somewhere on some location. I have my two 
trusty 1 GB SandDisk cards and my quite reliable PD7X. One card is 
filled, I plug it to PD7X and load the other card to the camera. Then I 
repeat this "trick" when the second card is filled and so on.

Here is the question. Why on earth I would want to buy a 8GB compact 
flash (for serious money) if I can buy a couple of 1 GBs and as much as 
80GB hard drive for PD7X?

I am not talking about extreme conditions or shooting with MF digital 
back. I am talking about regular amateur shooting with 6-8 MP camera on 
his vacation or some other favorite photo location of his.

What do you say?

Boris