Me shoot pretty one day. In the meantime, I'm taking a hell of a lot of bad photographs and plowing through my 8 GB flashdrive. Storing images in raw format will fill one of those cards in.... well, in an hour or two, as I discovered on a recent helicopter trip. Luckily, a professional photographer friend whipped out this little bad boy. My world was rocked. Right on the spot, you can pop the card into it and it sucks all those files inside for safe-keeping, leaving you with an empty flash card for immediate use. It's available in several sizes. I went the Goldilocks route and got the 250- not too big, not too small. Juuuust right.


from the site:
The HyperDrive COLORSPACE UDMA is a high-capacity stand-alone storage device with a plethora of state-of-the-art data-management and security tools. Its sleek form-factor and powerful feature-set offers digital photographers peace of mind, speed of operation, and the ability to travel light and move quickly. This compact hand-held device ensures a seamless workflow by allowing photographers to shoot without hesitation; up to 250GB of JPEGs or raw files can be transferred at 2GB/minute on a single battery charge.

Inside the HyperDrive, S.M.A.R.T. constantly monitors the hard drive's status for potential issues. A built-in data recovery tool can be employed to recover formatted, deleted, lost, or corrupted files from most memory cards. The integrity of each data-backup is checked by the CRC copy-verification system, and Data-Synchronization allows the HyperDrive to mirror its contents onto another HyperDrive or an external hard drive via USB OTG host technology. Incremental Backup allows the transfer of new images, while skipping over all of the previously saved data.

The HyperDrive's integral 3.2" QVGA LCD screen delivers vibrant color, contrast, and sharpness for on-site editing and proofing. Viewing raw files on the HyperDrive is never a problem, thanks to its raw-decoder; virtually any camera's raw file can be displayed, including those from medium-format digital backs. The zoom feature allows the shooter to confirm focus and overall sharpness, while the comprehensive R/G/B histogram can be accessed to provide exposure level information.