[Leica] SD Card Questions, M(240) Gearhead Edition

[Frank Filippone]

The WD HDD mentioned does not come with a power adapter cube (power cord to
a USB power adapter???)....   Make sure you take something that you have
tried in advance and know that it works.  These tiny drives eat battery
power..... 

Frank Filippone
Red735i at verizon.net

This is pretty nifty.  I used to take my notebook on trips but the only
thing I used it for was backups of the cards.  So now I can get a 1tb drive
with a card reader, and be able to check on my iPad that the files 
are really in there.   I take about 6gb of cards on a trip, more than I 
ever need (about 6,000 raw files) so now I can have an easy backup. 
Cool.  Thanks for posting.

Ken

On 4/10/2015 5:58 PM, Frank Filippone wrote:
> First, the way the camera accesses the data and the card itself 
> determines the save ( or read) speed.  ( My comments about the firmware).
> The  may be capable of really high speeds, but if the camera is 
> not.... you get the idea.
>
> Not much..... Most of these HDD backups are slow to load from your SD 
> cards.. but if you are sleeping while it is being done, who cares?
>
> For about $200 or less, you can have either a backup or a whole lot of 
> images stored away.....
> The real name of the WD card is... WD My Passport Wireless... they 
> were originally made in 500GB, but now, the only listings I see are 
> for 1TB and 2TB.
>
> 1TB, at 24 MB per image = 40,000 images.  Give or take a few thou......
> 2TB = 80,000 images.
>
> Even Tina would have enough room for a long trip....
>
> I think Tina once said that in her years as a working pro, she took 
> 25,000 -
> 50,000 pictures a month.
>
> Frank Filippone
> Red735i at verizon.net
>
>
> I do notice my M(240), set to shoot DNG (compressed) (which is what 
> has been recommended with my previous M8s and M9s) and loaded with a 
> 16GB card, freshly formatted in the camera, shows 14.8GB available and 
> 435 images to take, on the Info screen.
>
> Also, I do notice the Sandisk card specs on the B&H and Amazon pages 
> for Sandisk Extreme and Extreme Pro cards do list both maximum read 
> and write speeds, with the write speeds somewhat slower.
>
> What I'm trying to figure out is if there is a noticeable real world 
> improvement when using the faster, more expensive cards and it appears 
> - at least anecdotally - there is.
>
> Now you've got me looking at this Western Digital Wireless external 
> hard drive.  What could possibly go wrong with that?
>
> --Bob
>
>
>
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