Hi Paul - If you are interested in more info re the Compact Drive, I put together a pretty detailed review here a while back:
http://tinyurl.com/32js8x the only annoyance I've seen with the Compactdrive is WRT the way it creates new directories. Let's say you save 10 cards to a new Compact Drive - they would be written to the drive as 10 directories, CARD0001.UHS through CARD0010.USH. But if you then erase the first 3 directories and save 5 more cards, your 5 new cards would be saved as CARD0001.UHS through CARD0003.USh, and then as CARD0011.ush and 0012.USH. If you do a lot of directory deletes on the drive, it gets confusing to track where the newest files were. My old X's drive was much better in this capacity - it simply indexed off the last directory on the drive. So if you had a drive with just one directory - card0100 for example - the X's drive would just pick up at card0101. I work around the problem on the Compactdrive by just deleting the contents of each directory and leaving the empty directory there as a place holder. But that is inelegant. One nice feature of the Compact Drive, though, is that you can put a file on the main directory that will define how future card saves are named. SO if you are heading out for the Onassis wedding, you can stick a file on the drive that will restart the file naming at Onassis0001.UHS, and continue with that till you change the default ont he drive. Otherwise, I found the Compact Drive to be extremely well thought out and designed at the detailed level. I am surprised they missed such an obvious annoyance. - MCC Paul Stenquist wrote: > Thanks Mark. Yes, 6 to 12 gigs per charge is inadequate. I didn't > notice that on my quick read through. The Compactdrive sounds good. I > may start shooting some weddings. If I do, I'll probably want a > storage device. > Paul >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > -- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Mark Cassino Photography Kalamazoo, Michigan www.markcassino.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
