80 GB external USB drives are going now for as little as $36. 64GB
flash drive are available but very expensive. The price sweet spot
seems to be 32GB. Newegg has a sale today at $55. Still quite a bit
more expensive. Yes, the flash drive is more reliable but the hard
drive is not unreliable... and it's only serving as a backup to another
copy.
If flash cards were cheaper I'd just buy more flash cards since they can
do double duty... in the camera or out. But they're not cheap... yet.
As to burning a DVD in a shop... maybe in China. I have no idea who
would do that for you in the US and in what kind of shop. I think it
would require a major search.
Chuck Norcutt
Sandy Harris wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I burned DVDs all through my trip but I won't do it again. Too
>> expensive, fussy and time consuming. I'd have been much better off with
>> an 80GB 2-1/2" USB drive. I would download from the cards to the hard
>> drive on the laptop. Then copy to the external USB drive. Finally, I
>> wouldn't re-use cards until necessary which would have given 3 copies
>> for 80% of the iamges. That reminds me I still need to buy that 80GB
>> 2-1/2" drive.
>
> That's OK if you travel with a laptop, but not everyone does.
>
> In your place, I'd be looking for one or more large USB flash
> drives. They come in sizes up to at least 32 G now, and I
> trust solid state devices more than ones with moving parts,
> especially for travel.
>
> Alernately, many tourist areas have shops that will burn
> DVDs for you. Buy several 4 gig memory devices for the
> camera. When one is full, take it to a shop and have
> them put the data on DVD. I do that twice at different
> shops for safety.
>
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