Portable Gp=able Harddrives

[spray]

Been thinking today about possible ways of carrying TONS of data around (namely films) but not buying a load of SMCs.

I remembered the portable harddrives that exist for use by photographers and wondered if one of them would work with smcs.

I've done a bit of googling, the crucial thing to find is a portable back up drive that supports read AND write to the media cards.

Thus far i've found one on ebay:

Ebay GP-HD

Anyone else currently using something like this or know of anything else?

 

[Enslaved]

so this is a portable card reader that holds you data? I was expecting a drive that plugs into the wall for power or uses batteries and like a ribbon pops out and you plug it into your smc slot.

 

[Daz_Genetic]

* Data saved to the internal hard disk drive cannot be copied to the attached media cards.

 

[Ernest]

So from what i read there its possibl to load that 20gb beast up with all ur music and games and stuff, and when u want to add some more music to ur smc when ur out and about u can get ur hard drive out, plug ur smc in and load them. Or is it more complicated than that?????

 

[spray]

Found this one on ebay

Ebay HD

20GB and supports read and write!

 

[spray]

So from what i read there its possibl to load that 20gb beast up with all ur music and games and stuff, and when u want to add some more music to ur smc when ur out and about u can get ur hard drive out, plug ur smc in and load them. Or is it more complicated than that?????

From what i can tell so far, yes!

 

[Enslaved]

How would you be able to see what data you are transfering?

 

[Ernest]

and also would it be possible to delete unwanted to data of your smc to make space for new stuff???

 

[damaki]

I think you missed the most important part :

No longer available.

And the link after is useless as it points to the same page.

 

[spray]

i would direct everyone to the ebay link

many units available and full spec!

Just to clarify, the seller isn't me!

 

[Ernest]

Hmmmmmm............. certainly looks intriguing, i think i'll have to a bit more research into these things before i can go and spend any money.

 

[GPJosh]

http://the-discount-shop.com/product_info....products_id=958 For everybody who doesn't want to use ebay.

 

[Lethe]

$210? A hefty price... As much as an flu <_<

 

[RomHacker316]

True its a bit expensive plus you need an adaptor for SMC card support but it can hold alot of stuff so you can add/remove things from your GP on the go.

 

[Daz_Genetic]

I have a 80gb external harddrive and it is extremely useful. One of the few impulse purchases that I use on a near-daily basis.

I got an Iomega drive, and I would have to say that it wasn't at all cheaper than this device, so if this had been available at the time, I certainly would have chosen this one. I am even thinking about this, mostly for digital camera usage, but I also have about 35Gb of roms I wouldn't mind having to hand.

 

[r0lf]

I've seen this sort of thing at my local computer shop. They had a couple, but what it amounted to was a harddisk with USB / CF / SMC connectors. The sales dude said they worked really well, but didn't sell very well.

They were pretty exy tho, in the realm of 200-300$, the target market was the digital camera crowd. One of them didn't even include the harddisk (it was a sexiest looking one with a big screen) , you needed to buy a laptop drive separately to make it go.

 

[nerd of nerds]

$210? A hefty price... As much as an flu <_<

MUCH cheaper than 20gb of smcs tho...and handy...