anyone use a PSD (portable storage device)

[TNhunter]

Most of my photography consists of action shots at youth sporting events - gymnastics, soccer, baseball. I can easily fill up multiple cf cards in a few hours of shooting. I'm heading to the Souteast Regional Level 8 gymnastics meet in Ft Lauderdale in a couple of weeks. I'm going to be shooting at least 8 girls during the weekend (the TN team) and will be needing extra space. I can carry my laptop down with me however I don't want to take it to the meet with me for 3 days. I'm either going to need to buy 2-4 more CF cards or get a portable mass storage device. I'm looking at the Apacer CD211 or CD311. The difference being the CD211 is only the case and you put your own laptop hard drive in it and the CD311 comes with a 40 GB disk preinstalled. The CD311 has a little newer OS on it that is supposedly more efficient at copying the files (i.e. faster and less battery consumption). You transfer files from CF cards by pluggin in your USB 2.0 reader to it. Do any of you have these type devices? BTW - these Apacer units will be CD211 - $49 + 40 GB Toshiba disk $72 for total of $121 and the CD311 is $144 (including the 40 GB disk). I'm trying to decide if the supposed features of the CD311 are worth it.

 

[quailsroost]

I was in the same boat not long back and decided on the laptop option for a couple of reasons, you will have the opportunity to take a review of the shots you have already made and make any corrections needed in your camera settings, down load your photo files to the hard drive, I just burn a CD right on the spot and edit them later at home. If you want you can also buy an power inverter and plug your laptop into the lighter outlet in your car and power up your laptop from there and burn the CD and look at what you have just photographed, it's all what ever works best for you, I couldn't justify buying more storage when I already had the laptop that did all that plus more.