On Nov 25, 2011, at 12:08 PM, John Celio wrote: > Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long > trips? > > Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company > (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and then I'm > hoping to be able to take another week or two off for a bit of a vacation > while I'm down there. > > My little Chromebook only has a 16gb drive, so that won't do. Nor will my old > Alienware laptop, which is effing massive and just way too slow. I'm thinking > I just need to get a small laptop with a big-ish hard drive (say, 250gb+), or > get one of those portable hard drives with card slots you can dump stuff into > (and take the Chromebook for internet), but I'm really curious what frequent > travellers think is the best solution.
Can you reliably estimate how many frames you expect to shoot? Expect that your estimate is low by at least a factor of three. :-) Seriously though, it's not like Melbourne is the third world, if you run out of storage, you should be able to get more external drives when you're there. You don't want to copy your photos to a harddrive, you want to copy your photos to at least two hard drives. It's good to start thinking about this now, but wait until it is close to time to go to actually buy the drives, at least until the factories in Thailand are back on line and the price of drives has come back down. I'd recommend that you get a USB to sata cable, one which will work with both desktop and laptop drives. You get more storage for your money with desktop drives, but more storage per pound with laptop sata drives. Note that a lot of those cables only work with up to 2 TB drives. https://www.google.com/search?q=usb+to+sata+cable When you are coming home, don't carry both of your backup drives with you. Have a friend carry one in their luggage, or mail it home separately. That way if your bag goes awol, you don't lose your photos. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
