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December 11th, 2007, 08:58 AM | #1 |
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The Hitch USB to USB 2.0 xfer device - tested with HG10 Canon
http://www.gethitch.com/about/
USB 2.0 xfer device called The Hitch by Sima Products. ($99 @ Best Buy, ~$70 @ B&H). I had some high hopes for the device. Heading on vacation for 3 weeks, and was looking to bypass a laptop purchase (have very little need for one).. I'm not sure how much video I will shoot, but it might be excessive. So I figured I'd travel lighter and bring some 500 gb USB 2.0 external HD's. First test - copy a small file from HG10 to a 2gb flash card. Could not transfer a 2 gb file to the card as there wasn't enough space. 300k file transfered fine. Second test - I had 3 files on the HG10 at 2 gbs. Transfered them to the HD. 1st file was 20 minutes xfer. 3rd file finished in about 1 hour. So that's 6 gb/hour xfer. That seems respectable for a little device, but with 40 gb HD on the HG10 that turns out to be about 6.666 hours (6:40) for a full HG10 dump. I'd suspect maybe a slower times if I had many files say 50 files to xfer. Third test tonight - What happens when the file names are the same and it is copied over. Are they overwritten or will the Hitch rename them? |
December 11th, 2007, 03:24 PM | #2 |
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those numbers don't look that great - 8G Memory stick dump (one hour HD XP, best quality) from my CX7 takes 20 minutes - about 1/3 real time... fast file transfer is probably THE reason to transition from tape for certain uses.
Otherwise, tape has it's advantages... |
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