my image collection is just under 100G of storage (that is way too much to send and store to IPAD) all sent to an external wdc portable G drive on my pc -
-- i wondered if i could hook my G drive to IPAD and view /show photos that way ...
Around the house, I have my photos on a network drive and access them freely via FileBrowser.
For a portable solution I am beginning to think that WiFi is the answer. One thing on the market is AirStash but that is really just a way to access SD cards without using CCK and loading them to the iPad (worthwhile though).
I have been looking for a wireless portable HDD but surprisingly haven't found one yet. Ideally you coud then use something like FileBrowser to copy from AirStash to the HDD, for a true backup solution. I am not sure whether that would actually work though.
Of course you could buy quite a few 16 or 32 GB SD cards for the same money. It would not give you backups, but SD cards failure seems like a small risk, until it happens to you
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I certainly don't want to take my netbook
and iPad with me. It has to be one or the other. The iPad it best for viewing photos but not much good for backups. RAW + JPEG seems to be the way to go, especially as HC SD cards are reasonably priced these days.