Comments on: Backing up your photos on the road

By: David-Allan

David-Allan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:56:33 +0000

Great post Gary very informative.

I’ve also used external HD’s in the past to back up data whilst travelling but being as most of my travels are on a motorcycle I was always concerned about the vibrations and dust being an issue with an external HD that has moving parts.

I’ve seen a few solid state HD’s in some laptops recently, don’t know if there are external versions available yet but these would be great for this purpose being that they have no moving parts.

Cost is a factor of course but as you know it wont be long until they are ten a penny.

Great site by the way, i’ll bookmark you and have a good read once i’ve slept.

By: maria

maria — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 05:24:38 +0000

i have a nikon camera with 2gb space. i want to expand its memory. what are the different options available for it.

By: C.Calin

C.Calin — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:58:33 +0000

i have a hard drive but it’s not work well ,i guess that he’s out of order!\ :)

C.Calin -www.iHotele.ro

By: Nora

Nora — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:22:40 +0000

Excellent words of wisdom, Gary! I too use a similar method, although I only carry one external hard drive, which I partition and carry two backups of my entire computer on.
I also keep the external hard drive separate from all things computer, so if one is lost/damaged/stolen, I have the other.

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:18:50 +0000

I’ve had no issues to date and I’ve probably had close to a dozen in my life. I’d still go with the external HD because there isn’t really any other option for storage of large amounts of data on the road.

By: oneyeartrip

oneyeartrip — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:15:29 +0000

The problem with xHDs is that they are notoriously unreliable. They last less than a year, in most cases – and my latest xHD lasted only 2 hours (TWO HOURS!) before crashing to a completely dead state – it could not even be formatted.

If you look up reviews online you will see numbers of people saying the same thing. If they worked – they’d be great. Make sure you understand the faults before buying one.

By: Ren

Ren — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:45:06 +0000

Great article, definitely gives me something to think about on my next trip. On the last major one, I managed to survive on one 8GB SD card (my camera wasn’t shooting in RAW, anyway) for three weeks of travel. About halfway through, I managed to back-up my pics on to a 4GB USB drive, but after that, I didn’t have time or energy to back things up. Maybe for my next trip, since I’m probably bringing along my laptop, the external HD option would be best for me…

By: chinamatt

chinamatt — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:24:22 +0000

I need to get an external hard drive one of these days. Maybe taking all those photos off my computer will make it work a little less slow. Plus, I wouldn’t mind having a back up of everything (not just the photos).

By: true blue fishing

true blue fishing — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:09:28 +0000

Excellent reading, some very handy tips there that i can use both on the road and on my boat.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:20:31 +0000

Thanks for all this information. It’s a topic I’ve been thinking about as we plan for our rtw trip. I find uploading a pain at home, so I imagine it’s 10 times worse on the road. I’ll have to look into external hard drives. A very useful post!

By: jen laceda

jen laceda — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 03:03:54 +0000

Great tips! But did I read correctly? 1 Tetrabyte hard drives? Cool!