portable hard drive suggestion

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danielbrevick

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I'm just starting out - got my HVX200a a few weeks ago. Can anyone recommend a good/fast portable hard drive. I have just two 16 Gig P2 cards and can afford no more. I understand they ideally have 1394/firewire and also need to have their own power supply. I'm looking to safely (and as quickly as possible) dump the files from the cards while at locations.

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Daniel
 
I have been using simple drive which is USB powered and I can usually get a full day on my dell laptop and drive hooked up on the laptop battery.
 
Hi Daniel, yeah I know you issue 12 months ago like you. I searched around to try and locate an external portable disk enclosure for my HVX-200 that was SELF=POWERED.

and found a very very good one called the..

NEXTODI CF2525 ULTRA.

refer to my post http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=114853

also BArry Green posted http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=104908

It is magic for OFFLOADING P2 cards from the HVX over 4-6 pin FIREWIRE 400.

Simply buy the enclosure and slap in PATA DDM in it. I believe they take 250GB+ these days.

Set the HVX into 1394 HOST MODE and offload the card you need using the HVX200 menus.

Each CARD offload becomes a partition in the disks (any disk's file system)

I have found this extremely useful when I travel and need to shoot say 1080/50 (110Mbs = about 1GB/min) so my 2 x 16GB cards last about 30+ minutes. Thus too offload is a dream.

The NEXTODI CF2525 is from (manufactured) Korea but you can buy them anywhere on the net I think, else order from the guy here in Hong Kong. I bought mine locally here in Hong Kong last year. It is has a really nice leather case and is very small and portable + cables, power supplu and screwdrivers to open the case a as needed. If you really need a lot more than 250GB then simply buy a few more PATA DDM's and change them in the enclosure as you use them up. TAkes 2 mins.


You can buy additional EXTERNAL batteries for it as well.
never let me down.

Be aware it is NOT like a FS100 so you cannot record directly to it.

FOr a cheap alternative for portability self powered storage for P2 without the need to RECORD, this is a very good solution.

HTH
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Thanks so much for the good advice I'm looking into these suggestions and also one from an article Barry wrote re: using a cheap PC laptop. Much appreciated!!!
 
I picked up a pair of Western Digital Passport drives which are bus powered and highly regarded. They're tiny and come with a small padded case.
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