Lacie Rugged Hard drive..

[Spdamf]

so I went to look at the hpx 170 at a local store and the guy told me that you can use a Lacie Rugged hard drive to offload your video without removing the P2 card and the firewire port would power the lacie drive. Just wondering if this is doable. I didn't even know you could do this. If so, I'm sold!

Here is the drive.

http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10821

[Richard J. Johnson]

You can offload footage to this. It is slow and not really recommended because you have no way a verifying if everything copied over okay. but You can do it for sure.

[mcgeedigital]

I wouldn't trust any Lacie drive.

Too many failures, both with mine as well as others.

[Spdamf]

ah ok.. knew i was wondering how you verified that it transferred over. oh well.. too good to be true. any other solutions?

[Richard J. Johnson]

Easy way. Just attach the cam to your laptop via firewire and transfer that way. Or if your laptop has a PCMCIA slot just download P2CMOS from the panny website with the correct drivers insert the P2 card and offload that way. or you could use a duel adapter if you only have an express card slot. (I assume that you are dumping footage in the field)

note: I have used Lacie drives for years without issue. but I have heard plenty of horror stories. No Hard drive is 100% reliable 100% percent of the time. Just do your research before you buy one.

[Dick Campbell]

BTW, the firewire port on the camera cannot power anything. it is only 4 pin.

[David Saraceno]

The HPX170's firewire port will not power the drive.

The 170 does have what appears to be the larger 6 pin firewire plug, the HPX170 does not supply power through it.