On Oct 24, 2005, at 6:42 PM, Doug Franklin wrote:
Has anyone used one of those portable hard drive enclosures
with the slots for SD/CF cards? You install your own 3.5" hard
drive I've seen them online in a few spots, and was wondering
if they are any good.
I picked up one at Fry's a couple of weeks ago, along with a Fujitsu
40GB notebook (2.5") drive. It seems to work fine, but I've only used
it one weekend. I was a bit disappointed at the life of the
rechargable batteries in it, but I have a power inverter installed in
the truck, so it's not that much of an issue. It lasted almost all
day, and transferred over 200 RAW shots from the CF cards to the hard
drive before the batteries were dead.
By comparison, I paid a bit more and went for the Epson P2000. It has
a Li-Ion battery and a 40G drive, a 3.5" diagonal review screen. It
will typically transfer 11-13 1G cards full of RAW files on a full
charge (depends on how much review time I put in with it), that's
about 1150 RAW files average. The review screen works very well too.
A charge cycle from a fully exhausted battery to fully recharged is
about 2.5 hours, and you can use it plugged in with the charger too.
Godfrey
