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Posted by Richard Bernabe on August 8, 2007 at 7:28 PM
Ok, this is what I am looking for.

A portable hard drive that is battery powered, AA batteries preferred.
It should be solid and ruggedly-built, accept both CF and SD digital media, and no frills needed such as a preview screen. Utilitarian and dependable. No less than 40G capacity.

Oh, and it should not cost an arm and leg, >$300

I have a 3-week canoe trip where I will need to store large amounts of image data from both my Canon 5D and SD cards from an HD video recorder.

Thanks.
Posted by Guy Tal on August 8, 2007 at 7:31 PM
Look for a CompactDrive PD7X or PD70X. Sound like just what you're looking for. I use the former and it has worked well for me so far. Batteries don't last very long so I only use them in a pinch.

Guy
Posted by Ashutosh Rajekar on August 8, 2007 at 7:35 PM
I know and use one that fits all your requirements: Compactdrive PD-70X.

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/s.nl/it.A/id.1142/.f?sc=9&category=-109
Posted by Richard Bernabe on August 8, 2007 at 8:59 PM
Perfect. I just ordered the PD-70X. Thanks Guy and Ashutosh.

The AA batteries are preferred because I can take a couple dozen of them with me and use them on both the HD and my handheld GPS unit.
Posted by Guy Tal on August 8, 2007 at 9:04 PM
Richard, note that some places sell the unit without a drive and you need to add one of your choice.

Guy
Posted by Richard Bernabe on August 8, 2007 at 9:24 PM
Thanks for the heads-up, Guy. I did notice that when I placed the order and I ultimately chose the 60GB option.
Posted by Richard Wong on August 9, 2007 at 12:10 AM
The HyperDrive. They dl a 1 gb card in about 45 seconds. and cost about 200. I bent the pins on the flash reader on my 1st time out by being careless but fixed it eventually and haven't had problems since.
Posted by Richard Durnan on August 9, 2007 at 8:38 AM
I have the 160 GB Hyper drive Space. Love it. $359. smaller ones are less. Comes with all the card reader slots. Came with all sorts of adapters for power includign AA, Car and an international plug adapter kit. Normally I charge it by the wall aoutlet but it will charge via your usb cable as well. Hypwe drives are the fastest card reading unita I know of.

Here is the link to their site. http://www.hypershop.com/shop/information.php?info_id=11

I found them to be very poor with communication, but the unit arrived as advertised, in a timely fashion. I have been totally psyched with it.
Posted by Rob Coomer on August 9, 2007 at 9:33 AM
Is CompactDrive out of business? Their domain is for sale. Usually that's not a good sign for future support. . .