Backup memory cards without a computer

[TheFaQQer]

I'm off on holiday soon and will be taking lots of photos while I'm away - either on a CF card or SDHC or SDXC depending on the camera I'm using.

Just in case anything happens to the memory cards, I'd like to take a backup of the photos while I'm away, but don't want to take a laptop with me.

I'm looking for some kind of portable hard drive that I can just plug the cards into and hit a button and it backs them up automagically. I'd also like to be able to use the drive as a normal drive at some stage, otherwise it will just sit in a box unused the majority of the time. Can't imagine I'd need more than 100GB at a time, but need some way to get the photos from the cards onto the drive.

Anyone know of anything that would do the job??

 

[TheFaQQer]

Should have said I won't have any wifi access (or I doubt I will), so can't do any cloud upload stuff either.

 

[smatty]

There are devices to do that but they're not cheap, if you search on Amazon for "memory card backup" then a few show up. It's not much more to buy an eeepc however which is my method.

 

[SimonMac]

Digital Foci PST-251 Photo Safe II 500GB Digital Picture Storage - P19-500 NEW | eBay

 

[RSoles]

Cheaper to buy a 10" notebook?

 

[madhippy]

Tablet with OTG cable

Tablet with OTG cable

I did similar recently - I took a usb memory key, nexus 7 tablet and a usb otg cable - allowed me to copy files from sd card to nexus and then back to usb key (also having the nexus 7 backup to cloud)

 

[SimonMac]

Cheaper to buy a 10" notebook?

I did similar recently - I took a usb memory key, nexus 7 tablet and a usb otg cable - allowed me to copy files from sd card to nexus and then back to usb key (also having the nexus 7 backup to cloud)

Problem is tablets tap out at about 128gb max, dunno if anyone else shoots in RAW but on a two week holiday I can more than fill up 128gb, yes a tablet could do an OK job, why would you use anything other than a tool specifically designed for the task in hand

 

[TheFaQQer]

Problem is tablets tap out at about 128gb max, dunno if anyone else shoots in RAW but on a two week holiday I can more than fill up 128gb, yes a tablet could do an OK job, why would you use anything other than a tool specifically designed for the task in hand

That's part of my concern - my Nexus 10 has a theoretical max of 32GB. That's OK to copy from the 8GB memory cards that my wife's camera uses, but not so good for the 64Gb SDXC cards that I have for my camera.

I don't want to take a netbook, or an EEEPC or even a tablet to be honest - all I really want is something small, quick and easy to backup the cards at the end of each day, just in case anything happens to them.

I think that at the end of the day, I'll probably just take my chances and hope that nothing bad happens to the cards - if it does, then I'll just find similar images from the internet and pass them off as my own

 

[sal]

Have you seen this:

HyperDrive ColorSpace UDMA2

not sure if they deliver to UK and it's not the cheapest solution but it seems elegant and exactly what you are looking for.

 

[SimonMac]

That's part of my concern - my Nexus 10 has a theoretical max of 32GB. That's OK to copy from the 8GB memory cards that my wife's camera uses, but not so good for the 64Gb SDXC cards that I have for my camera.

I don't want to take a netbook, or an EEEPC or even a tablet to be honest - all I really want is something small, quick and easy to backup the cards at the end of each day, just in case anything happens to them.

I think that at the end of the day, I'll probably just take my chances and hope that nothing bad happens to the cards - if it does, then I'll just find similar images from the internet and pass them off as my own

What do you shoot with? I am lucky my Nikon has two SD card slots, worse case take two cards and swap one each day so if one goes corrupt or is lost you only lose half your photos