USB Hard Drives Operate On e755's Battery?

[Len M.]

Does anyone know of a USB hard drive that I could use with an e755 that won't require an external battery pack? I'd prefer not to have to lug one more thing around (as Anypak's pictures show).

I'm using Anypak's (www.anypakdevices.com) USB driver (thanks to the author!) and it works fine accessing a second CF card in USB card reader (though an SD card is accessed much, much slower than the native SD card slot in the e755). I've already tried one a Toshiba 5 GB PC Card drive in a USB card reader but the driver reports an over-current condition.


Len Moskowitz

[dataworm]

Originally posted by Len M.
Does anyone know of a USB hard drive that I could use with an e755 that won't require an external battery pack? I'd prefer not to have to lug one more thing around (as Anypak's pictures show).

I'm using Anypak's (www.anypakdevices.com) USB driver (thanks to the author!) and it works fine accessing a second CF card in USB card reader (though an SD card is accessed much, much slower than the native SD card slot in the e755). I've already tried one a Toshiba 5 GB PC Card drive in a USB card reader but the driver reports an over-current condition.


Len Moskowitz

They all need a additional power source, but you can find some HD case that have a battery built-in... Those HD can be use without a computer, to backup CF card on them... They normally have both a Laptop HD, a CF reader and a SD reader... I don't recall the brand but i saw some a few month ago on ebay... There is 3-4 brand... They are sold to be use to backup CF card of Digital Camera... Those i saw had a battery that could handle 2 hours of usage

[Len M.]

Here are a few:

http://www.kanguru.com/mediaxchange.html
http://www.xpcgear.com/digibin20gb.html
http://www.tapeandmedia.com/giga_vault.asp

A bit pricey but if it works perhaps it's worth it.

This looks pretty cost effective:

http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=VP-2030

(It comes without a hard drive.)


Len Moskowitz

[Len M.]

Oh, that last one is only USB 1.1, so it's probably not worth considering.


Len

[dataworm]

Originally posted by Len M.
Oh, that last one is only USB 1.1, so it's probably not worth considering.


Len

I was looking to buy the X-Drive 2 that was USB 2.0