Portable Storage Device

Does anyone know if there is a device similar to an prtable external hard drive that will store file/pics etc directly from a flash drive or memory card? Would also have to use AC power not usb driven. I am looking for something like this for vacation so as not to have to take laptop. Thanks!

I'm confused as to exactly what you're asking for.
Are you looking to solely take photos with you, or are you looking for something that you can offload photos from your camera while you are on vacation?
First option > USB thumb drive. High storage, cheap, fairly durable
Second answer > You could look at a netbook if you're looking for something to offload photos from your camera, but doesn't take up much space.
If neither of those are close, please explain a bit more.
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Vosonic VP2160 wont run on Firmware Driver Version 1.13, having problems in getting Firmware downgrade Version 1.07, has anybody out there had a similar problem with this Portable Storage Device?

I am having problems in Finding/Downloading Firmware for a Portable Storage Device (Vosonic VP2160). It has been suggested that I download Firmware Version 1.18, but that wont work.
I have noted some where else that there is a Downgrade Firmware Version 1.07 but I am having great difficulty in sourcing it from Vosonic.
Any suggestions out there?
Thanks in anticipation,
Rob

luca wrote:
Hi krazyshane,
try to add this directive in Section "Device":
Option "DRI" "true"
This got it! Thanks!
Shane

FAT 32 & PORTABLE STORAGE DEVICES.

HI
i'm looking to buy a portable storage device (psd) for my
digital camera - one where i can slot in the memory card &
save my photos on it while im away.
Amazingly, there are problems with these devices not being able
to be formatted on macs "because they use FAT 32.."
Could any one give me some advice about this subject.
What i want to do is a regular anti fradmentation routine of formatting
the psd every so often - All these types of product use FAT 32.
What do i do...?
d

First, to comment on the Disk Utility formatting as "DOS", when I take the drive I formatted on the Mac as DOS and hook it up to Windows XP, XP identifies it as FAT32. As I said before, I use a 40GB drive and format the entire volume as "DOS" and it works fine as a OTG device. And when I hook it up to an XP machine, it sees the whole volume as well. However if you try and format it with XP, because it is above 32BG, you are not offered a choice of "FAT" or "FAT32" as a format to use, only NTFS. Microsoft designed their operating system to only format drives as FAT32 if the drive is under 32GB, however it, XP, will happily use a >32GB FAT32 volume if already formatted that way.
I have looked at many of those other products you point to back when I was looking for something for this purpose. First and foremore, I use an Olympus camera that uses XD-Picture cards. Most of those devices that have built in card readers either do not support XD-Picture cards at all, or I couldn't get confirmation that the ones that can could read the newer 1Gig XD cards (many card readers won't).
But in addition, I found many of those solutions to be very expensive, most costing several hundreds of dollars. They do have the advantage of having some sort of display, so they should be able to give you some feedback if the transfer was successful before you delete your photos from your card. Mine is simply a drive that will take any information off any USB device plugged into it, but doesn't really give you any way to check your photos transferred correctly. There is a light that will blink red or something if there is some sort of transfer error, but that is about it. So you have to kind of go on faith your transfer worked, if you don't have a computer you can plug the drive into and check (which you probably don't or you wouldn't really need this sort of device). But I have found mine to work fine and haven't experienced any problems yet.
The Macally is a much cheaper solution since the enclosure is about $50 or so. Then you throw your own drive in. If you have one laying around already (say from a past laptp drive upgrade) your are ready to go. I bought a refurbed drive for about the same price so my total cost was roughly $100 for 40GB of portable OTG storage. You can probably find cheap smaller laptop drives to make your out of pocket price a lot less.
One nice thing I like about this one is that is has a USB connector for the OTG feature instead of a card slot. So I can plug ANY USB mass storage device into it and the drive will read all the data in from that device. So you can plug a digital camera in directly, a card reader, a USB Thumb drive, another hard drive, etc.
There are other OTG drives and drive enclosures out there. Here is a cheap one...
http://www.pcmicrostore.com/PartDetail.aspx?q=c:36232;p:10502274
But I have no experience with it so can not tell you anything about it.
Patrick

USB Port keeps crashing my portable storage devices

Ok no matter if it's an external hard drive or a usb flash drive, while transferring data my usb port will just die. The Device Removal window will pop up. If it's my flash drive then the light will keep flashing repeatedly. For the external portable hard drive i just keep hearing the disk start and stop spinning simultaneously. Anyone know how I would go about fixing this problem?
Thanks,
Dak

Hi Dave, not long winded at all.
I think you'vve narrowed it down to the OS & Install.
Does the Retrospect Installer have an uninstaller?
Might try AppDelete...
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/appdelete.html
Even if you have to Install Retrospect again to be sure of finding it's files.
What Format is the External?
Also, WD MyBooks are not a good choice for PPC Macs...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1543028
http://forums.bombich.com/viewtopic.php?t=11152
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Zen Micro as a portable storage devic

Does anyone know if it is possible to put anything but audio files onto a Creative Zen Micro? and if so could someone tell me/link me to somwhere telling me how?
Things im talking about are, files like word Documents etc... I-pod's are able to hold .txt files and you can view them on the screen, so id rather my i-pod owning friend didnt get one up on me...
Cheers, in advance

You CAN store files one the device, but this is on another part of the harddisk then your music library. You must choose the capacity of this "Removable Disk"-mode when you first use it. It is found in Menu>Extra>Removable Disk. When you select this, music stops playing and you can only use this function unless you press the back button. If you use Removable disk mode you will be able to use it as a usb-device on every PC.

Are any Thunderbolt portable storage devices available yet?

I have a fairly new MacBook Pro with a Thunderbolt port, which is running Lion. I am wondering if there are any portable Thunderbolt disk drives available yet that I can use on that port? I would love to have an external disk drive to store backups of my photos and other documents while I am on the road to replace my painfully slow USB 2 disk drive. If anyone knows of any offerings in this area, please reply to this message. A google search has not been helpful.

WxCa wrote:
tjk:
I'd say a quick look at the link you cited would prove that the answer is no - there are no portable Thunderbolt drives available at the moment!
Ahhh, my bad. The "portable" somehow didn't register. Sorry.

Mass storage device and portable device ERROR code 31 41 HP PAVILION s5123w Desktop PC

I am using windows vista home premium 32 bit First time I pluged nikon camera into computer. Says installing device driver software but it does not install. Device manger under portable device digital still camera yellow question mark error code 31 under mass storage device error code 41. The device driver loads and installs on my daughters Laptop so ther is some thing wrong with my PC Every time I reboot computer windows need to intall driver software for your Microsoft WPD file system volume driver. Loacate and install driver software recomended says installing driver says successfully installed. I have to click Safely remove hardware usb mass stoage device multi flash reader usb device generic volume f I click stop says safe to remove I do not have a reader plugged in my computer. this happens every time I reboot> If you don't understand what I am talking about Let me know.
thanks Scott

Hey poochokid,
I'm sorry you're running into this issue. For the camera, if it's newer (made in the last 3 or 4 years) you may need to go to the Nikon website and find the camera software that is made for Vista. I could try to help you find that, if you could give me the model of camera you have.
For the Microsoft WPD file system volume driver issue take a look at this thread from another forum.
I hope this information helps! Let me know what the results are

I'm trying to transfer music from iTunes on an old PC that uses an external storage device to a new PC (Windows 7) that will use that same external storage device. I am also dealing with new iTunes 11. How do I do this?? What folder does iTunes use?

I'm trying to transfer music from iTunes on an old PC (Windows Vista Home Basic) that uses an external storage device to store the files to a new PC (Windows 7 Starter) that will use that same external storage device. I am also dealing with the new iTunes 11. How can I accomplish this successfully? What folder does iTunes use to store the data in? I've tried several things. Home Sharing caused duplicates but not all songs or apps transfered. It is a large library! I've tried just setting the path in the Advanced Tab of iTunes preferences of the new computer with the external drive connected the same as the path when the external drive is connected to the old computer. This was the best solution so far but still a few artists missing and some apps. Any suggestions?

Here are typical layouts for the iTunes folders:
With iTunes 11 you might also have a Home Videos folder inside iTunes Media.
In the simplest cases you copy the entire iTunes folder from <User's Music> on the source computer to <User's Music> on the target machine, install iTunes, and it "just works"TM.
If the media folder (inside the red outline) has been split out to a separate location then you can copy the library folder (outside the red outline) as before and connect the drive holding the media so that it has exactly the same path as before. If the drive appears as D: on one system and E: on the other then the library won't be able to find the media.
The crucial file is iTunes Library.itl - this contains a record of the tracks that have been added to the library, ratings, play counts, playlists etc.
See also: Make a split library portable.
tt2

Nomad Jukebox Zen Xtra as Mass Storage Device?

I found an old Nomad Jukebox in my closet and seeing as its pretty obsolete im wondering if there are any firmwares that will allow this to function as a plain usb dri've instead of only being able to sync with specific software.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/4KTKWNZNDL.jpg

nosmokingbandit wrote:
Probably Windows 7 more than anything else, but the main reason i would like it to behave like a mass storage device is so i can plug it into my car stereo via usb and play music from it. Sure, i could use the auxillary plug, but i find it easier to navigate to a song using my headunit's controls than the Jukebox's.
Well since that is how you want to use it you could always remove the hardri've format it & use it in a portable hardri've enclosure.Your car stereo does it read an MTP device? What make & model is your car stereo? Do you have access to a XP/Service 2/WMP0 computer?

Data storage devices for movies on ios 8 ipad2

What data storage device would work to play itunes movies on ios 8 ipad2?
Thank you!

Perhaps one of this would help:
HyperDrive - The World's First And Only iPad Hard Drive
Carry 750GB of HD video and photo, always accessible to the iPad
Airstash
"Easily access, transfer, and stream your files from AirStash® – the pocketable wireless flash drive for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch! This app requires an AirStash device in order to work. View, import & export photos, wirelessly stream videos, music & podcasts, and view documents stored on your AirStash. AirStash+ is an enhanced alternative to the built-in web interface adding features only possible with a native app."
http://www.airstash.com/
Seagate Wireless portable hard drive
"The new 500GB Seagate Wireless portable hard drive is the company's latest HD designed specifically for use with tablets and smartphones like Apple's iPad and iPhone."
http://www.macrumors.com/2015/01/04/seagate-ces-2015-new-products/
FlashAir™ II Wireless SD Card series
--Share photos & videos wirelessly
--Capacity up to 32GB
--Supports simultaneous access from up to seven devices

Can I use a 3.0 usb storage device on an older MacBook wht 13inch ?

I need more storage for projects at work. I noticed most of the storage devices are usb 3.0. My MacBook is 2.0. What are the pros/cons in using a usb 3.0 storage device. Specifically I am looking to store iPhoto collections and iMovie projects directly to the portable drive.
Thanks

Try http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
I have found their prices to be better as is their support.
Allan

Best portable storage solution?

I am facing a new project that presents a lot of questions and I'd like some insight.
My prospective client has a collection of footage on BCSP which they want edited into a series of 30-minute programs with an eye on web, broadcast and DVD distribution. My system is currently set up for DV -- I have no BCSP deck. In the past, when necessary, I have rented a BCSP deck and run the footage through a JVC SR-VS30 (a dreadful piece of equipment in all other ways that I cannot steer people away from enough). This isn't a practical solution for this project. My client is willing to work with me, and we have several possible solutions. One is to have my client dub all of the BCSP to DV, and have me just work from the DV tapes, but that will obviously require a lot of their resources. A second option is to digitize the footage on their system (they have an analog capture card -- I believe it is from AJA) and bring it over to my system on portable drives.
This second option has interesting issues. We are exploring whether footage digitized on their system is workable when brought over to mine (I'm not sure if you need the card inside to recognize and play the footage -- this was an issue previously with footage digitized using a Cinewave card). IF this is even workable, either directly or by file conversion using something like MPEG Streamclip, then we have decisions to make about what kind of portable storage to use. They are using SCSI drives on their system, and I would like to avoid the high cost of incorporating SCSI into my system. I have been thinking about getting an eSATA configuration with an enclosure that has a secondary port (either USB or Firewire) -- the thought being that I would digitize onto their SCSI drives, tranfer it to the SATA drives via the secondary connection and bring it on home to edit.
Maybe there is a painfully obvious solution to this situation that I am not recognizing. I would like to avoid the transfers to DV because I'd like to take the work out of my client's hands, and I'd like to maintain as much of the quality of the originals as possible by removing as many intermediary devices as I can. I'd also like to mitigate my expenses as much as possible in getting this to work.
Any thoughts, at all, would be much appreciated. Even some good questions might open my eyes to considerations I haven't... uh... considered.
Thanks in advance.
Rob

Thanks, guys. It looks like the way we're going to go is the "digitize on my client's system" plan.
I found a bunch of alternative thingies to the G-Tech thingy and I wonder if you guys (or anyone) have anything to say about them.
Regarding the eSATA PCI host card for my G4: while there are quite a few cheaper options out there, my understanding is that the only stable card for G4 use is FirmTek's SeriTek/1SE2 (I think I only need two ports). The only problem with this acquisition is that I already have two Seagate Barracuda SATA drives (320GB) ready to go, but I got word from MacGurus (confirmed by a FirmTek tech) that Seagate 7200.9 and 7200.10 drives conflict with the FirmTek board. (See here: http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/PCISATAHostCards.php). So, I have to get different drives. And I don't want the FirmTek enclosures because they don't have USB or Firewire options.
Lots of other drive options with multiple port options:
the G-Drive Q from G-Tech
the NewerTech miniStack v3
the LaCie d2 Quadra
the EB3 by Oyen Digital
the Vantec NexStar 3
the Icy Dock eSATA enclosure
CoolDrives has a wide variety of enclosures, but I have heard very bad things about them.
I think I've seen about a gazillion others. I am leaning toward the Oyen enclosures for a couple of reasons -- cost, size, fanless aluminum construct, and you can order them with Hitachi SATA II drives that are optimized for AV (whatever that means -- they have a six page pdf on the Oyen site that tells me why that's important, and if you write six pages it must be important).
If anyone has stronger recs (or reasons to steer away from Oyen) I would be indebted.
Thanks again,
Rob

Time Capsule vs. Other Mass Storage Device

I am a Mac newby seeking advice. I recently purchased the MBA below to replace my personal PC. My previous setup was a desktop with plenty of storage to handle my needs (including iTunes) and I backed up data directly to an external hard drive (I know pretty basic).
After purchasing the MBA, I realized I do not have enough internal hard drive space to store all of my music and my current external drive is too small for all the media and backup of the MBA. Also, the point of the MBA is to be mobile. Also, I would like my Sonos music system (with an application similar to iTunes) to be able to access the music library. Lastly, I have far to many songs purchase outside of iTunes to use iTunes Match. Therefore, I started seeking wireless alternatives to store my music and backup my MBA. Although an NAS would probably be ideal, I have found out through trial and error that the basic systems do not work with a MAC and the only ones with a prayer are the more expensive ones (i.e. Synology and QNAPS). Therefore, I have decided to pursue a more simplified approach.
My Internet and TV provider is CenturyLink. Their router is very basic with only 802.11g speed and without any USB ports. The following configuration has been suggested to my by some more experienced Apple users to provide wireless data access and backup.
Requesting CenturyLink provide me with a basic modem.
Purchasing an Airport Extreme (or similar wireless n router with a USB port).
Connecting the Airport Extreme (or other wireless router) to the basic modem.
Purchasing a Time Capsule (or other mass storage device).
Partitioning it using either the specific one for the Time Capsule (or Disk Utility for other mass storage devices) to provide one volume for my media and one for backup using Time Machine.
Moving the media from my old external drive (which is catalogued with folders for each artist, subfolders for each album and the songs in the subfolders) by connecting the old mass storage device and Time Machine to my MBA and using Finder to do this (see the questions below regarding this).
Moving/cataloging the media from the Time Capsule (or other mass storage device) by dragging it into the iTunes window.
Connecting the Time Capsule (or other mass storage device) to the USB port of the Airport Extreme (or other wireless router).
Setting up Time Machine to use the volume partitioned for backups.
Possibly having to move cataloging files from my iTunes, Music folder to the external drive and pointing iTunes to the Time Capsule (or other mass storage device) through Preferences, Advanced to access the music.
Overall, I am concerned with the total cost. I just spent a lot of money, not only purchasing the MBA, but also the iPad 3 and upgrading my cell phone to the iPhone 5 (I skipped the 4). It seems that by the time I purchase an Airport Extreme and a Time Capsule, I could also have just bought a NAS like the Synology 213 with 2 X 1TB drives, connect it to the existing wireless router via ethernet connections and have a more comprehensive solution. Based upon these instructions and cost concerns (and bad experience), I have several questions related to this.
Does this configuration and these instructions make sense, including those for moving and accessing my music files through iTunes (i.e. will it work)?
Are both the Airport Extreme and Time Capsule necessary to make this work easily or can I purchase alternatives to either or each and if so, what is recommended? If they are necessary, would you recommend doing this or buying one of the aforementioned NAS's to a Mac newby?
Given the file structure for my music on the old external mass storage drive, can I simply move the folders over with the subfolders containing the musice files in them or do I have to literally enter into each subfolder, select all and move them subfolder by subfolder (i.e. album by album)?
Am I missing something totally better and easier solution?
I would be massively grateful to anyone who can provide some good answers, advice and guidance. I am about to pull my hair out!!!!
Thanks,
WinoSkiBoy

They both said about the same thing except the Apple Store business tech said to buy an Airport Extreme and just attach a partitioned external third party HDD to it.
Except that is flakey for TM backup..
http://pondini.org/TM/Airport.html
And slow as the proverbial dog.. although I guess the dog is old.
And totally inadequate as a media store or server.
Apple's pricing is pretty cunning.. I really doubt you are going to find a cheaper unit to do both wireless and TM backups than the TC. And it is a perfectly good device to do that. It is good to have in the network. And Apple sure make their products work with other apple products.. so it does work better than other similar cost products.. although you miss a lot of features that Apple predecided for you.
But I don't think anyone has the ideal solution to your problem. Apple believe in cloud. And if you have fibre internet that will work really well.. forks out your money and apple will store your stuff. But for the real world most of us do not have internet connection even a fraction of speed required. And it can be another decade before we will. We need a box that is half way between a TC and media PC, a file store and a NAS. Will Apple make one.. ?? I don't think so.. They believe in cloud..
You can make the missing link one yourself. If you are so inclined.. A HP microserver running freeNAS can do TM backups and makes an excellent media store because it can do AFP. You can put a graphics card in it and plug it into your TV. You can use it with a airport extreme. But you will need a degree in Geek.. !! The synology is a preconfigured form of that.. No Geekdom required. Synology seems to have the upper hand.. this week.
Let me make a suggestion.. Figure out if you are going to jump into the Apple way of doing stuff.. which is basically itunes on computer as a server.. and the whole network.. working as part of this.. so any media is pushed from a store in itunes.. whether local or internet.. if you want to do it that way.. getting something other than the air to run itunes is well worth it. That is what a NAS cannot do.. it cannot be a media player.
Or you do hybrid.. ie you don't use put all your media into itunes, you use a bit of this and bit of something else.. As long as that can play files.. stored on NAS or even on the TC without the itunes requirement.. It won't be as pretty. But it isn't hard to get working.. as long as you accept this isn't going to be the perfect Apple solution.

PCI USB Card Does NOT Work With Mass Storage Devices

I have a StarTech PCI card with 6 USB 2.0 ports that I inserted in my 500 MHz (overclocked) B&W Power Mac G3. It works great for any USB device EXCEPT for any hard drive or DVD/CD-RW drive. I checked the system.log file for errors. Nothing shows up in System Profiler or Disk Utility, obviously. Here's what it consistently says:
Dec 16 23:33:28 Geoff-Myers-Power-Mac-G3 kernel[0]: USBF: 674.997 [0xf9c000] The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying. (Port 6 of hub @ location: 0x62000000)
Dec 16 23:33:33 Geoff-Myers-Power-Mac-G3 kernel[0]: USBF: 679.977 [0xf9c000] The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device.
I'm running the latest version of Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.3. What is wrong? StarTech doesn't have a driver, but nothing should be necessary. Is there a 3rd party USB Mass Storage Device driver that might work better than the Apple generic driver? PLEASE HELP ME! I cannot live with USB 1.1.

Some users have reported problems with certain brand cards and their controller chipsets, so trying a different card may resolve the problem. Keyspan and Macally are often mentioned as being more "Mac-friendly" than some other lessser-known brands or generic cards. Does the card have a mini-power port to supplement the power requirements? With USB 2.0, each port is on a separate bus, so a card with six ports should have one. To minimize the overall draw on the available power, I prefer to install USB cards with as few ports as are needed.

Why do my music files from my storage device not show up on imac 10.4.11 also photos

when i plug in my seagate storage device it has my entire itunes music library which is 15.6 gbs. this music folder along with another music folder and a folder with photos shows up as an empty folder. i know i has music and photos in it because i loaded it into a mac laptop with lion oxs and it showed up. my imac is an old imac with tiger 10.4.11 . any answers. also i have 768 mb of memory can i get another explorer downloaded other than the one it came with which is 5.1.

THANK YOU ! I had posted this question on another topic forum and got zero replies. You have solved my problem. My setting for playlists was 'music only' and I simply changed it to ALL.
THANK YOU ! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
Now I can go to sleep with theTV sleep timer on and two episodes of Lost in Space or Star Trek or The Mary Tyler Moore show playing as I doze off

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