Digital Home Thoughts: Digital Photo Storage On the Road

"It’s very easy today to take more pictures in a single week long vacation than ever imagined possible ten years ago. For one thing, not many people had digital cameras ten years ago and those that did had a lot of problems with ample, cheap storage. Compact Flash and SD cards weren’t as inexpensive and voluminous as they are today. And yet today, images coming directly out of the camera can regularly exceed 10MB or more. As I see it, there are two main paths to take when a vacation is planned and the camera will be tagging along. Either purchase more memory cards or purchase a digital storage device. I’d like to take a look at both options and lay down some pros and cons to help you decide which path might be right for you."

So there are a couple of options presented in this article -- a portable storage device vs. a bunch of cards (reminds me of JBOD - just a bunch of drives, so this would be JBOC). And I am definitely in the JBOC camp. Granted I still have my EOS 10D which is a 6MP camera and I bet when I upgrade to the EOS 5D successor (if it ever comes out) then my 2 1GB cards will not be sufficient. But I personally think it beats carrying around yet another device and a charger than a few extra cards. And addressing the issue of possibly mixing up the cards - c'mon, buy a sketch pen and write some numbers on your cards. Yeah, yeah, not tech savvy enough but gets the job done.