Jon Childs
02-25-2010, 07:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/sanho-crams-640gb-of-memories-into-your-pocket-with-hyperdrive-a/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/24/...h-hyperdrive-a/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"this device is essentially a 640GB pocket hard drive meant to suck down photos from your SD or CF card (it plays nice with both formats) as you shoot; it can either lighten the load on your memory card or act as on-site backup, and it's reportedly capable of downloading 2GB per minute with full data verification."</em></p><p><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/wpt/auto/1267111838.usr486.jpg" style="border: 0;" /></p><p>At $600 it seems a little expensive, but if you take a ton of photos while travelling this seems like it would be pretty handy. It can decode RAW photos as well as jpeg which is good for the serious photographer. It would be nice if it could play back video as well. With 640GB of storage it would seem to be a nice offload device for all the flash based video cameras around now.</p>