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<blockquote data-quote="Ruidoso Bill" data-source="post: 8447" data-attributes="member: 753">&quot;I picked up a small 320 GB USB hard drive last week so I can do a 2nd copy of my data 'in the field' - then when I get home, I can use it to copy the data to my big external drives.&quot;I do use a vosonic that I plug my cards into and download while traveling, I just don't have room to carry a laptop and camera equipment. I would never put my camera gear or a laptop in checked baggage, where I travel I would never see it again so it is make the best of the carry-on space. If possible I keep my cf cards intact but there have been times I needed to format and reuse them and then the only copy left is on the vosonic hard drive. I think I put a 180GB laptop drive in it. Since bits are bits it doesn't make any difference if I use the cards or the hard drive to import to lightroom, if anything is ever wrong with the file (never had that happen) it would be a corrupt file. Now that I have a netbook, maybe that will become my new traveling companion, I do have lightroom on it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruidoso Bill, post: 8447, member: 753"] [B]"I picked up a small 320 GB USB hard drive last week so I can do a 2nd copy of my data 'in the field' - then when I get home, I can use it to copy the data to my big external drives." [/B]I do use a vosonic that I plug my cards into and download while traveling, I just don't have room to carry a laptop and camera equipment. I would never put my camera gear or a laptop in checked baggage, where I travel I would never see it again so it is make the best of the carry-on space. If possible I keep my cf cards intact but there have been times I needed to format and reuse them and then the only copy left is on the vosonic hard drive. I think I put a 180GB laptop drive in it. Since bits are bits it doesn't make any difference if I use the cards or the hard drive to import to lightroom, if anything is ever wrong with the file (never had that happen) it would be a corrupt file. Now that I have a netbook, maybe that will become my new traveling companion, I do have lightroom on it. [/QUOTE]

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