On Nov 25, 2011, at 3:08 PM, John Celio wrote: > Those of you who travel a lot: How do you store your photos while on long > trips? > > Next May I'll be spending some time in Australia with my company > (specifically, in Melbourne for roughly a week and a half), and then I'm > hoping to be able to take another week or two off for a bit of a vacation > while I'm down there. > > My little Chromebook only has a 16gb drive, so that won't do. Nor will my old > Alienware laptop, which is effing massive and just way too slow. I'm thinking > I just need to get a small laptop with a big-ish hard drive (say, 250gb+), or > get one of those portable hard drives with card slots you can dump stuff into > (and take the Chromebook for internet), but I'm really curious what frequent > travellers think is the best solution. > > Thanks, > John
A 13" Macbook Pro w/ 500gb internal drive, about 400gb available to download/store images. Plus two external HD's @ 500gb. I download via Lightroom with renaming and autocopy to one external HD, and then I put that HD away and do a disc-to-disc copy for a backup on the 2nd HD. I used to carry one of the external HD's with its own battery and SD slot, and I would download images to that through the day when taking a coffee or lunchbreaks. Then: a) the newer SD cards weren't working reliably in my system,and b) SD cards got larger capacity and cheaper, meaning that I could afford to have more than adequate cards to carry me thorough the day. So I save all of my downloading/processing for the evening working with the laptop and external drives. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
