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Battery-Powered USB Enclosure

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-you-can dept.

An anonymous reader pointed us to a story about a battery-powered USB disk enclosure. It operates on AA batteries. It's aluminum, and is sorta meant to offload data from cameras. It's only 2.5 inches, so that's not totally unreasonable, but I'm still struggling a bit with the 'Why' part of the equation.

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  1. Nothing for you to see here. Please move along. by TrollBridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    My thoughts exactly. Is there a point to this story?

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  2. Re:Posted by Manufacturer by MobileC · · Score: 0, Troll

    And yet you still bought it...

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  3. I guess you take 'snap shots' by purduephotog · · Score: 1, Troll

    I take 'photographs'. Yep it's a distinction. It's also why I've taken about 13,000 photographs since I switched to Digital back in March of this year.

    A 4gb CF card holds (on my 10D) about 530 photographs. I transfer said card to two battery backup units- a 20gb and a 40gb.

    On my trip to St. Thomas I came back with a little over 2300 photographs; several of which I edited and stitched together to make massive panoramas. A panorama consisting of 14 frames tends to take quite a bit of disk space in the RAW format- and each time you want to capture it again that means 14x6mb each...

    So anyways, yes I'm interested in this if it'll actually download the info. If not, I'll stick to my battery backups and leave my laptop at home.

  4. Re:Article text for your convenience by Reducer2001 · · Score: 0, Troll

    People who graduated from high school in the south in 1985 have quite a superiority complex, don't they?
    Or would you like me to repeat myself?

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