Travelling - Viewing, Editing, Backup (4K, FCPX, 100's GBs etc)

TheTrickster

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This no doubt has been asked a few times - I did do a search, but many threads never had a definitive answer... so...

With this in mind, I've been pondering how best to organise myself for frequent trips with my cameras and recorders (GH4, GoPro, Ninja2).

Would Like:
  • SD to USB3 HDD Transfer (fast-ish)
  • Playback of 4K Material
  • Simple Organising / Editing (Binning / Flagging etc)
Previously I had a Samsung 700T ATIV Windows 8.1 Tablet thing, which I installed OSX on it (hated Windows8) so I could use FCPX. It was big, lacking in space and I hated the screen size (as it used the native resolution - so everything was tiny) but it had USB3.0 and I could work with it and 2TB USB Drives.

I sold the 700T (as by the time I added the keyboard thing to it, it wasn't much smaller than my 15" Mac, so the last few trips I've taken my 15" Retina Mac with me, but its a pain...

Too be honest that is too big for me (as I'm on the limit of hand luggage anyway!) so I'm now looking at alternatives..

  1. Kingston MobileLite Wifi Thing
    I purchased one for like €40 last week to have a play, and it works well with my iPhone for transferring from an SD Card to a 2TB USB Drive (supports exFAT) - but alas its only USB2 and the transfer speeds I get are 10.5MB/s - so working with 100Mbps 4K files - working out HOURS! to transfer stuff - and I have no real way of viewing the footage (Wifi payback stop/starts on the iPhone)
  2. Android Device with USB3.0 and a OTG Cable
    Only one I can find is the Galaxy Note 3 - But I haven't found any real world use of doing SD <> HDD transfer with one? And its an expensive thing to go and buy to find out it doesn't work :)
  3. Apple Mac Air 11"
    Much smaller than my Retina machine, similar size to a 10" tablet, light, but a low screen res (1366x768) - and I'm not sure if the i5 1.4GHz processor will play back 4K h.264 files?
  4. SurfacePro2
    I know, I know Windows 8. But nice screen, USB3.0, Slim keyboard. No FCPX.
    I'm not Hackintoshing anymore - too many issues (Wifi, iCloud etc etc)
Any thoughts?
 
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