Steven Seelig 
, Feb 01, 2012; 10:39 a.m.
I am planning a 10 day safari trip and am looking to move video and images off of my cameras and also back them up. Weight is an important consideration. My Macbook Pro weighs about 6.6 pounds (22 pound carry on limit) so it will consume most of my weight allotment. I have an iPad 2 and the Hyperdrive seems like a reasonable alternative, but I am curious about other people's experience and how it actually works in this sort of scenario.
I would like to know if you can rename the files on transfer and can you view the pictures by simply pointing the viewing program to the external drive?
Hyperdrive for the iPad can be seen here (http://www.hypershop.com/HyperDrive-iPad-Hard-Drive-s/183.htm)
Zach Ritter 
, Feb 01, 2012; 10:57 a.m.
I'm curious on this one also. Hopefully someone can chime in.
I am assuming you aren't going to have reliable high-speed net access, otherwise i would say you could use a cloud storage to do the same things.
Steven Seelig , Feb 01, 2012; 11:19 a.m.
Hi Rob,
Read that article, but still not sure about performance. They are not cheap so need to be clearer about how it actually operates.
Zach..... I am hoping to have electricity first and foremost! Might have to bring a solar panel! Which raises an interesting question. Are photos in iCloud transfer to you iPad? If yes, then storage on the iPad becomes limiting.
Peter Hamm 
, Feb 01, 2012; 11:22 a.m.
I read the article, too. I would have just brought the macbook air and a backup hard drive.
Steven Seelig , Feb 01, 2012; 11:27 a.m.
Peter,
Interesting thought and one considered for sure. I have an iPad, but would need to buy the Macbook Air. And I have no long term need for Macbook Air.
Jos van Eekelen 
, Feb 01, 2012; 11:29 a.m.
Just think how many memory cards you can buy for the price of a Hyperdrive! And there is always the option to store images on the iPad, with Photosmith (app) you can already do some sorting for Lightroom, of course only useful if you're a LR user.
Zach Ritter , Feb 01, 2012; 11:32 a.m.
Not 100% sure ho iCloud works, I don't use it. I was more thinking of Dropbox, which allows you to upload to there, then you delete it from your iPad. I'll be taking a week trip out to Montana in April without a laptop (hopefully) and this was my plan.
Maxime Gousse , Feb 01, 2012; 11:47 a.m.
Rob Bernhard , Feb 01, 2012; 11:48 a.m.
[[Read that article, but still not sure about performance]]
[[They are not cheap so need to be clearer about how it actually operates.]]
The Hyperdrive ColorSpace is a stand-alone device. You can connect it to the iPad for reviewing photos after you transfer them from your memory card to the HyperDrive.
The Hyperdrive iPad Hard Drive is not a stand-alone device. You will first have to transfer photos from camera/card to iPad and then from iPad to Hard Drive.
[[And there is always the option to store images on the iPad]]
Unless you shoot more than the storage capacity of the iPad.
I would consider a Hyperpad if I really wanted to have a portable backup system. I would still have enough memory cards to see me through the trip, because transferring photos from memory card to backup and then formatting the card gains you nothing in terms of redundancy.
