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 balmybaldwin 30 Mar 2017
My google skills are failing me, and hopefully the photographers of UKC can help....

I'm looking for an external hard drive sort of device that whilst functioning as an external hdd also has the ability to automatically suck up video and photo files direct from SD cards whilst in the field (and without a laptop in between)

Does such a device exist?
 CasWebb 30 Mar 2017
In reply to balmybaldwin:
They used to, e.g. https://www.amazon.co.uk/HyperDrive-ColorSpace-UDMA-II-Wireless/dp/B009086G... but since it is now relatively easy to copy direct to tablets (both Apple and Android) the market for them has all but evaporated.
Personally I just carry multiple cards and swap them on a regular basis so that I'm not putting all eggs in one basket.
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 The Lemming 30 Mar 2017
In reply to balmybaldwin:
I have only seen a YouTube and not seen one myself but this looks interesting

https//youtu.be/-90CAt6trlo

https//www.gnarbox.com/


Edit.

It's a bigger getting links for a tablet. Anyway, the device is a gnarbox.
Post edited at 08:27
In reply to balmybaldwin:
Western digital do storage with sd card readers built in if that is what your after? - https://www.wdc.com/en-gb/products/portable-storage/my-passport-wireless.ht...
And say a WD 1 TB My Passport Wireless Wi-Fi Portable External Hard Drive seem to be still available to buy in the U.K. from Amazon for example which has both wifi and sd card reader built in.

SD cards can also come with built in wifi to allow transfer to other devices direct say a standalone HDD drive with wifi (not cheap though so depends on your budget).
OP balmybaldwin 30 Mar 2017
In reply to balmybaldwin:

Cheers guys. Will have a look. that Gnar box thing doesn't seem to be available yet, but the passport drive looks interesting
 David Barlow 31 Mar 2017
In reply to balmybaldwin:

I have a previous model of Nexto M1 http://www.nextodi.com/product/M1_en.html which is great. You just put in the media card and it incrementally copies/moves the data. The new ones looks more expensive though
 Toerag 31 Mar 2017
In reply to balmybaldwin:

Be careful with the bundled WD backup software - If you delete something off your machine it deletes it off the backup as well .
OP balmybaldwin 31 Mar 2017
In reply to Toerag:

yep cheers for the heads up wouldn't touch auto backup anyway
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