Portable CD burners?

[noidea]

Has anybody any experience with a portable CD burner/card reader like the Apacer Disk Steno?

To my information they are about the same as a portable Hard Drive with the difference that they burn to a CD-R/RW instead a magnetic disk.

I'm just wondering if it would be more secure to burn your images directly onto a CD opposed to saving it on a magnetic media.

Any thoughts?

:cheers:

[Igor]

I backup my data to BOTH DVD and 120Gb hard disk. Just to be safe :)

[noidea]

That's the spirit, Igor!

I'm looking more into something portable ... more portable than a Schlepptop.

I'm just wondering if that thing would be more secure than a (for example) Flash traxx device.

[Igor]

You mean backuping on the road? I use Toshiba Libretto 70 (which is the smallest Win98 laptop) with 10Gb HD for downloading the shot photos. Very small and yet full featured Windows computer. Cheap also :)

[noidea]

Thanks again, Igor .... but no laptop!

I'm looking for something for in the pocket.



:cheers:

[Igor]

Libretto 70 does fit in a pocket! (A big one of course :) )

[Wilm]

noieda,

how many photos should be on that storage-device ?

When you are burning your CD-R´s onroad, how could you be shure, that there will be no scratches ?

I´ve investigated several time into portable storages and found for myself, that a combination of a 1 GB microdrive and a 2.2GB Magicstor is enough for one day.
In the evening I can look to my pictures on a small ( how do you call it ) "Schlepptop" and can delete the bad ones.
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A 20 GB harddisk is quite enought space even for a 2 week-trip.

:cheers:
Wilm

[noidea]

Igor, you never give up, eh? :lol:

Wilm, the device is meant for wedding, family fiestas, ....

My idea is to have two 512 meg cards and burn one onto the CD, while I shoot with the other.

"On the road" is on my location a not very dehnbarer Begriff (sorry, wouldn't know how to translate that into english :o ), as our island island is only some 8x12 miles big ... so not much changes to go on the road.

Having had too much HD crashes meanwhile in my life (even on an AS/400 dinosaur!) I trust an optical device more than a hard disk.

But nevertheless thank you for your thoughts.

BTW, Wilm, my wife was asking if she could see more of your Harz winter pictures somewhere (she hasn't been to germany yet, and snow is unknown here)

[Wilm]

Noídea,

from my point of view, wedding photopraphy and CD-R´s are quite dangerous. You never know if your photos are ok on the cd or even not. I would promise with a location as yours to take a small laptop with HD and CD-burner. That would be the savest way to keep the images. Create a subfolder for each CF-card and burn later on ( at location ) folder by folder. It´s better to have two copies than one.

Concerning "dehnbarer Begriff" : I can´t translate it too !!!



:cheers:
Wilm

[lightwrangler]

I recently bought a RoadStor portable CD burner for back up. Works just fine. I did mention it in a thread recently, if you do a search you ought to be able to find it.

[noidea]

Thanks lightwrangler, I saw your thread (accidentally).
That thing impresses me!

Wilm, I think we could discuss this issue until get blue and black in our faces. ;)

My experience shows that CD-R's are more reliable than any hard drive device (learned it the hard way - I'm still wondering how the IBM service guy made it from Amsterdam to Tilburg in 1-1/2 hours during rush hour :confused: ).

Laptop, yes - no ... now you make think again