Hi Team, I've recently exchanged my X-Drive II for a Compact Drive PD7X. This unit is pretty inexpensive, it's about US$30 more than the X-Drive II but it offers a few significant advantages.
It copies media to the local HDD at 4x the speed of the X-Drive, it verifies the transfer, it displays remaining space on the media/HDD in MB/GB and it is powered via 4x AA NiMH cells. It also has a more robust extruded aluminium case and a neat pouch that can be worn on a belt. Independent test have confirmed it's potential to transfer 30GB in the field on a single set of 2100mAh batteries. I bought the chassis bare and swapped over the HDD, it mounted without further intervention. Anyhow if anyone wants to see more details: http://www.3hdigital.com/en/product.htm http://fhoude34.free.fr/PD7x%20Review.htm Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
