High-speed photo dump

[DanielA]

Interesting little hard drive enclosure...
NextoDI to present high capacity storage with unprecedented backup speed
Found via Gizmodo

1GB backed up to mobile storage in just 50 seconds. That sounds pretty good.

Daniel

[DaveB]

Thanks for the heads-up on this. My ND-2500 is going fine (backs up a full 2GB Extreme III card in ~3 minutes) but it's nice to know there's an upgrade option.

Interesting to note that the new box uses a SATA drive (that's got to help with the speed a bit).

[moz]

Does look interesting. I have the older model, and recently bought a PD70X to go with it (two different PHDs for lower risk of failure). I'm torn by the difference in features between the two - the PD70X is faster and runs off AA batteries, but it's 2x the size, USB only and requires a mains adaptor to charge. The NextOdi will charge off its firewire slot and is noticeably smaller. The PD70X also has a variety of error codes and balks often on large files, making it much less useful as a generic portble hard drive (it's faster to split the files into 200MB chunks because it will normally copy 20x 200MB files in one go, but one 4GB file is unlikely to work before I give up).

I suspect my next phd will be another Nexto and I'll ebay the PD70X. Like the toy I tried that burns CDs or DVDs straight from CF, it's a great idea poorly executed.

[stetner]

The PD70X also has a variety of error codes and balks often on large files

I use one of these on a Mac and initially also had trouble with it. I tried it on my work laptop and had trouble there too. Then, I pluged it directly into a USB port on the Mac, on its own, and it worked fine. So it seems to be finicky about the USB bus..... That said, it did scare the heck out of me when I thought my 1500 snaps from my vacation with my Canadian rellies were not going to come off!

[adam]

I used to have a PD7X, but one day I plugged it in when I forgot that I had non-rechargables in there, and it leaked and ruined (a week before my Hong Kong trip!! eeeyuk!).
Then I bought the PD70X, the faster speed was nice, and the power seemed more regulated, but would get the occassional error. I didn't like it how it had to run off batteries or be plugged in when connected to the computer.

This NEXTO looks good! Looks more compact than the PD70X, and faster too?
I like it how they use rubber gloves to hold it hehe
I will consider one of these if the PD70X doesn't make me happy.