sb wrote:
No complaints here.
None here either as I appreciated your post.
Have the WD MyPassport also. 2 Tb drive.
Has SD card slot. Stick it in and auto-copies it to the drive. Can charge your smartphone. Isbwifi enabled and you can see the files on your smartphone also. Will be using it extensively in the next 5 days shooting 3 weddings in 2 countries....am crazy paranoid about backups and dont trust upload speeds in hotels for dropbox. Laptop+Mypassport+sd cards+whatever I can upload on dropbox :-)
Steve, thanks for the tip, I didn't see this here before. I just placed an order.
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I am heading to Africa in a few weeks, and did not want to take my laptop to back up all my photos. Someone mentioned in passing "Filehub" on a post last week. I checked it out, and purchased one.
http://www.amazon.com/RAVPower-Wireless-Portable-Companion-Streamer/dp/B016ZWS9ZE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502041586&sr=8-1&keywords=filehubThis is a small battery-operated (rechargeable batteries - plugs in) device that serves several purposes. It can be used as a wireless network router. It can serve as a battery back-up for your smart phone, AND - it is a file transfer device which operates with an Ap for your smart phone (I think on either Apple IOS and Android devices).
I purchased this from Amazon for $40. I downloaded the Ap. You plug in your SD Memory card on one end and a USB Thumb Drive on the other end. You could probably use a portable hard drive as well. Although the instructions are more about using it as a network hub, I figured out how to use the Ap to create a folder on my thumb drive and quickly copy image files from my SD card to the thumb drive. The file transfer seemed pretty fast. I plan on using this every night to create backups from my SD cards onto thumb drives so that I will have a second set of images. They will also be easier to work with on my computer when I get home - with the images already on the thumb drives.
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Hope you have a wonderful trip.
Very cool! I've just bought a portable hard drive for my upcoming fall trip. I didn't really want to take my laptop but was resigned myself to it-until now! Thanks for sharing!
Unfortunately it does not work with a Mac based system. Maybe in the future it will be.
"newer version of the item for $32.49". It seems that this particular version has 3000mah power storage, the original one posted is 6000mah. Otherwise besides price and color they seem very similar.
sb wrote:
I am heading to Africa in a few weeks, and did not want to take my laptop to back up all my photos. Someone mentioned in passing "Filehub" on a post last week. I checked it out, and purchased one.
http://www.amazon.com/RAVPower-Wireless-Portable-Companion-Streamer/dp/B016ZWS9ZE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502041586&sr=8-1&keywords=filehubThis is a small battery-operated (rechargeable batteries - plugs in) device that serves several purposes. It can be used as a wireless network router. It can serve as a battery back-up for your smart phone, AND - it is a file transfer device which operates with an Ap for your smart phone (I think on either Apple IOS and Android devices).
I purchased this from Amazon for $40. I downloaded the Ap. You plug in your SD Memory card on one end and a USB Thumb Drive on the other end. You could probably use a portable hard drive as well. Although the instructions are more about using it as a network hub, I figured out how to use the Ap to create a folder on my thumb drive and quickly copy image files from my SD card to the thumb drive. The file transfer seemed pretty fast. I plan on using this every night to create backups from my SD cards onto thumb drives so that I will have a second set of images. They will also be easier to work with on my computer when I get home - with the images already on the thumb drives.
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SB, thank you for the review of Firehub. I will be doing some travel in the next few months and this seems like a good way to reduce what I bring with me.
So what if you don't have an I-phone? Or if that phone doesn't work where you are?
Looks promising. Please report back after your trip! Interested in how this works out. Heading to Kruger next year!
sb wrote:
I am heading to Africa in a few weeks, and did not want to take my laptop to back up all my photos. Someone mentioned in passing "Filehub" on a post last week. I checked it out, and purchased one.
http://www.amazon.com/RAVPower-Wireless-Portable-Companion-Streamer/dp/B016ZWS9ZE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502041586&sr=8-1&keywords=filehubThis is a small battery-operated (rechargeable batteries - plugs in) device that serves several purposes. It can be used as a wireless network router. It can serve as a battery back-up for your smart phone, AND - it is a file transfer device which operates with an Ap for your smart phone (I think on either Apple IOS and Android devices).
I purchased this from Amazon for $40. I downloaded the Ap. You plug in your SD Memory card on one end and a USB Thumb Drive on the other end. You could probably use a portable hard drive as well. Although the instructions are more about using it as a network hub, I figured out how to use the Ap to create a folder on my thumb drive and quickly copy image files from my SD card to the thumb drive. The file transfer seemed pretty fast. I plan on using this every night to create backups from my SD cards onto thumb drives so that I will have a second set of images. They will also be easier to work with on my computer when I get home - with the images already on the thumb drives.
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Not having done this before, can I assume that you can add the photos from one day to the photos from a previous day on a flash drive without erasing the fist day's photos? I hate if this sounds idiotic.
Safe travels to Africa sb and thanks for a great backup idea. Leave on a trip to Canada and get tired of lugging around my laptop. Sounds like a good substitute. /George
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