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Off on a big hol to America in May and will be taking lots of photos and video. What's the best way of freeing up SD cards if I don't have a laptop. Is there anything like a big card reader with internal storage, or is it just a case of buying a few more blank cards?
I've got a portable usb hdd but not sure if there's any device that can copy cards to this
Thanks
SD cards are cheap. Just buy more.
Thanks, just been looking didn't realise how cheap they are now!
Also don't be put off with your phone specs saying can only take an xxgb sd card, those specs were written based upon what was mass market available at the time of development of the phone.
Samsung s7 with 400gb sd card here. (specs say upto 64gb sd card) no faffing around choosing music for phone or deleting pictures.
https://www.gearbest.com/memory-cards/pp_1721060.html
Something like this and then a wifi hotspot dump to the cloud
SD cards are cheap. Just buy more.
This! 8Gb cards are probably the best balance between capacity and cost. While it’s tempting to go for 16, 32, 64 or even 128Gb, but there’s always a risk, albeit a small one if you buy from a reputable supplier like 7dayshop, that a card may corrupt, and that could mean the loss of a lot of photos.
Also, keeping the card after downloading the photos means you still have a backup safely tucked away.
I’ve just had a look online, and it’s now really difficult to find anyone selling 8Gb cards! Or at least, anyone I’d trust. Go for 16Gb cards, Sandisk, Kingston or similar, and keep them in plastic card holders once they’re full up - memory cards are pretty robust, but these will contain irreplaceable photos, so keep them in a quality container.
OTG cable and an Android tablet, then upload to cloud storage. Or a cheap notebook off eBay, you could pick up one for not much more than decent cards!
I'd be inherently worried trusting cards, they either fail just when you really wish they wouldn't or just get lost! I'd at least try and get a backup of them.
Look at the WD My Passport Wireless Pro. It is a portable hard drive, with built in SD card reader. So it would let you backup all of your photos, without a computer.
Halfords have a Sandisk Extreme 64gb card for just £18.99, £17.10 with a 10% BC or CyclingUK card. Confusingly they had it listed as only suitable for GoPro...seems to work fine in my phone!
Thats pretty comparable to the unknowns being peddled on ebay and amazon...Tesco and Sainsburys are £28 and £45 respectively for the same card! P.S Halfords one is online or order to store...its not on the shelf.
Or, as mentioned above, you can get a OTG adaptor doodah on ebay that takes standard and micro SD cards, with a large USB on one end for your fancy laptop that came without a full size SD card slot, and at the other end is a micro-USB so you can plug the card into your phone and upload to the cloud.
I have great little gadget I brouht in France which was a micro usb OTG usb hub plus card reader. It's been invaluable for working without a laptop for not only getting photos into the cloud but watching movies from USB stick and uploading GPXs to Garmin's etc. This isn't quiet as good but would do the job
If you are an iOS user get one of these:
https://www.apple.com/uk/shop/product/MD821ZM/A/lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter
View/edit on the Pad and upload to Cloud.
Don't forget the photos only exist when they are stored in 3 places, I use Flickr and OneDrive for cloud storage when I'm away. (Currently OneDrive can be a bit of a gamble as MS are releasing badly QA'ed software and access is not always guaranteed).