#Drivedx sd cards how to#

As you see in the post, the old 240 GB corsair force is accepted and not the 500GB Samsung SSD or whichever is newer (from the comments above). I believe that just the SSD's with older tech are the ones compatible. SSD change is definitely possible and without any specific firmware update. That's the bulk of the tearing apart you have to do! Unscrew these knobs from your hard-drive, we are going to make it hot-swappable! If you just take your Spudger, and slide them towards the center, the HD can just pop out. The HD is held in place with rubber grippy knobs which are sorta-spring-pressured into place. (you don't actually have to disconnect it from the electronics, just get it out of the way). Р”Р‡irst, use the spudger (or credit card, or flat head screwdriver) to just go around the edges and pop the top off the Hard drive. This review includes the FCC teardown pics. Often the FCC will have teardown photos for you already! This can be really useful for things like just knowing if things are connected by just latches or hidden screws. With the solution here, you can just carry around as many extra hard drives as your heart desires! and it's way cheaper!Р”В«efore you yank apart some commercial product, it can be super useful to see if someone out there already has pulled it apart for you. but are usually SUPER EXPENSIVE and are limited to a certain amount of data. This solution was much better!Р”В®verything else I could find was SUPER EXPENSIVE. Not only was this cumbersome (had to have laptop open, and copying), it also used about 80 percent of all the power we dedicated to charging the laptop. It doesn't help if you have 3 backups if the one backpack holding them all goes over a cliff )Р”В«efore in the Panama Hiking Hack (), we had to copy all the data onto an external hard drive with a laptop. What I do is this: 1) Never erase an SD CARD in the field, 2) Backup all SD cards on 2 separate Hard drives, 3) Keep the SD cards and Hard drives in different people's backpacks.

Whether this is because of adventure-y things (SD card falls into raging rapids on river crossing), or banal things (SD card just becomes corrupted for no good reason), YOU ARE GOING TO LOSE DATA.

If you are going on a good enough adventure, you can rest assured that at least one copy of your data IS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.

It's something you REALLY NEED TO DO.Р”Р‡or important data (once in a lifetime interviews with jungle explorers, rare photographs of strange animals),the best rule of thumb I I have come across is: If you shoot enough video and photographs for important and rare events, you quickly learn to become super paranoid about backing up data. intense jostling (can pop SSD hard drives in for SUPER DURABILITY).lots of data (Can carry around larger or multiple hard drives).low-power (don't have to waste laptop power) (can swap out LiPo batteries).I built this device for a month-long expedition into the middle of nowhere in Madagascar ( ) and it worked great! So nice doing work knowing you had extra copies of the data!

#Drivedx sd cards how to#

This instructable shows you how to (relatively easily) convert a Western Digital Wireless hard drive into the ultimate tool for backing up SD card data in the field.