Laurenz Bobke wrote:
when I got my small Lumix FX8, I also bought an "Imax" portable HDD to
store the pictures on the road. Worked fine - while I was at home.
A few days into my Scotland/Ireland trip, it just refused to copy
anything.
I had quite an interesting time finding Internet cafes that actually
allowed me to copy my data onto a CD (just about every 2nd day of the
trip...).
A special highlight were the Jessops shops that renamed and even
resized part of the files (not all)...
Now, I thought I might buy something decent for my next trip, but
looking at the comments by customers I find that there are
many similar stories for just about all brands including the GigaVu,
Archos, Hama etc...
One (satisfied!) customer even reported that in warm climates his
device seemed to lose all data, but was able to retrieve them after
putting it in the fridge for a while.
Turning to portable CD writers and DVD burners, I read loads of horror
stories about media being verified - only to turn out unreadable
afterwards.
Is this just a sort of "publication bias" - people who are completely
happy do not write in forums?
Or are the risks real?
Does anyone here know a reliable portable medium?
I'm already starting to look at ultraportable subnotebooks that could
burn the data on CD or DVD and on their HDD.
I have just ordered a Minolta 7D, so there'll be many more digital
files from now on...
Laurenz
http://www.travelphoto.net/
my new site about my hometown: http://www.wiesbaden-photos.com/
How about a little Apple Mac laptop? the little 12" ibook G4 sounds very
tasty for this.
I took an Acer laptop last summer and downloaded everyday - didn't lose
a single file.
Previous year I used a Dell Latitude and the year before that a very
basic Sony Vaio.
Howard
