Digital Foci is one such company which makes these type of products. Its new Photo Safe II device, priced at around $140 for an 80GB model or $190 for a 160GB unit, is the latest such product to hit the market. Its key focus is to back up and secure your digital photos from your camera. It is a relatively compact device, weighing 0.6 pounds and measuring 4.6- x 3- x 0.8-inches. It runs off a rechargeable battery, which lasts for about 80 minutes between charges. An auto shut off feature helps save this battery life.
The Photo Safe II sports built-in memory card slots, offering support for a variety of media card formats including CF Type I (including Extreme III, IV, UDMA), SD (including SDHC), miniSD, MMC, MS, MS Duo, MS PRO Duo, and xD-Picture. A one-touch button on the digital photo storage device lets you copy the entire contents of the card at speeds up to 5MB/sec. Digital Foci says a 1GB card can therefore be copied in about 3-1/2 minutes.
All file formats are copied onto this device, retaining the original file name as you or the camera created it. The Photo Safe II has a display screen on it, showing you information such as status, battery life, storage space and copying status. You can also copy digital pictures over later to a computer via a USB 2.0 connection.
Other features of the Photo Safe II from Digital Foci include a built-in erase card function, the ability to act as an external hard drive/memory card reader when attached to a computer and support for both Macs and PCs.
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