A specialised storage device will cost about the same as a netbook but wouldn't have the other benefits of surfing, emails on the go.
Daoyin, yes certainly. You have raised good points there.
The extra benefits as listed by you is really that added value.
I totally agree with you on that.
Just that I like the Colorspace Hyperdrive for the following reasons:
- Convenience - I just slot in my CF and SD cards at the side slots and it will download automatically.
- It is hardy. Really hardy. And the charge really lasts long. One full charge can last me a good one and a half week.
Granted, one does not use the Colorspace Hyperdrive like one would use a Netbook (e.g. surfing the net, email etc. etc..)
- Data Recovery. It has built-in Data Recovery function and It can do recovery of loss data and corrupted CF cards. I had first-hand experience of this.
For some strange reason, my usually trusty Sandisk CF card c*ck-ed up on me on my last trip. I simply slot it into the Hyperdrive and in about one hours time, all the precious photos for that day were recovered completely, together with photos taken long long time ago and the images still retained in the CF card although they were deleted.
This single funcion gave me a certain degree of reassurance.
It's not that expensive. The enclosure is about $200+. The HDD will be around $100+ depending on the storage capacity.
Nowadays HDD price has also dropped.
Hardly. :nono: Generally netbooks only have 200+ Gb storage in the range of $400+.
With that you can have 500Gb of portable media backup in a more compact size. Although you might not need that much space anyway :bsmilie:
Hello, hanzohattori.
I have to concur with you that a Netbook's internal storage is around 160Gb or slightly more.
But agreeably, one does not use so much memory. Not usually.
For us, as we shoot RAW on our FF and cropped cameras, and as both myself and my wife carry 6 cameras every day out on our trips, we usually come back with easily 30Gb worth of RAW photos per day. (Let's just not digress on the amount of photo we shoot.)
Thus a 10 day trip would certainly see a storage space of 500Gb an almost necessity.
An experienced photographer like Daoyin would have his reasons for wanting to carry a Netbook instead of a Portable Storage Device.
It's all shooting style. And to each his own, hanzohattori, to each his own.