
This review includes the FCC teardown pics. Often the FCC will have teardown photos for you already! This can be really useful for things like just knowing if things are connected by just latches or hidden screws. With the solution here, you can just carry around as many extra hard drives as your heart desires! and it's way cheaper!īefore you yank apart some commercial product, it can be super useful to see if someone out there already has pulled it apart for you. but are usually SUPER EXPENSIVE and are limited to a certain amount of data. This solution was much better!Įverything else I could find was SUPER EXPENSIVE. Not only was this cumbersome (had to have laptop open, and copying), it also used about 80 percent of all the power we dedicated to charging the laptop. It doesn't help if you have 3 backups if the one backpack holding them all goes over a cliff )īefore in the Panama Hiking Hack (), we had to copy all the data onto an external hard drive with a laptop. What I do is this: 1) Never erase an SD CARD in the field, 2) Backup all SD cards on 2 separate Hard drives, 3) Keep the SD cards and Hard drives in different people's backpacks. Whether this is because of adventure-y things (SD card falls into raging rapids on river crossing), or banal things (SD card just becomes corrupted for no good reason), YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE DATA. If you are going on a good enough adventure, you can rest assured that at least one copy of your data IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED. It's something you REALLY NEED TO DO.įor important data (once in a lifetime interviews with jungle explorers, rare photographs of strange animals),the best rule of thumb I I have come across is: If you shoot enough video and photographs for important and rare events, you quickly learn to become super paranoid about backing up data.

intense jostling (can pop SSD hard drives in for SUPER DURABILITY).


HARD DRIVE WITH SD CARD READER HOW TO
This instructable shows you how to (relatively easily) convert a Western Digital Wireless hard drive into the ultimate tool for backing up SD card data in the field.
