Saturday, August 14, 2004
Review of Sony’s HDPS-M1 Portable Drive
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"I have been searching for a device that will allow me to dump the memory cards from my digital camera (Sony DSC-F828) since I bought it late last year. I have been using my laptop for this purpose, along with a card reader, cables, and USB 2.0 PC Card. Picture me squinting at my laptop screen in bright sunlight, copying and pasting the files from my memory cards onto the laptop hard drive. This was not an ideal solution (Julie has often listened to me whine about the inconvenience of it all). I wanted something simple that would fit in my camera bag and hold lots of pictures. Imagine my joy when Julie told me about the device pictured below."
The portable drive is available for $320 and comes with a USB 2 interface, CF and Memory Stick slots and 40GB of space. It is compact although the battery life isn't too great. However, the real downer is the fact that it is only available in Japan. Apparently, you can contact Brando at the Brando Workshop to try and have them ship you one of these, but given that much of the writing on the buttons of the device are in English, it may be coming out in the US shortly. Read the article to find out more.
The portable drive is available for $320 and comes with a USB 2 interface, CF and Memory Stick slots and 40GB of space. It is compact although the battery life isn't too great. However, the real downer is the fact that it is only available in Japan. Apparently, you can contact Brando at the Brando Workshop to try and have them ship you one of these, but given that much of the writing on the buttons of the device are in English, it may be coming out in the US shortly. Read the article to find out more.
