Jeffrey L.T. von Glück Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Anyone have any experience with a back-up device advertised all over Facebook called “Photostick”? It looks like a flash drive but is advertised that upon plugging in to your computer’s USB port, it automatically copies every photo and video from every location on your hard drive. Just wondering if anyone out there had used it and is it worth the purchase. Jeffrey L. T. von Gluck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Copies every photo on your hard drive to where? Facebook's servers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey L.T. von Glück Posted January 1, 2020 Author Share Posted January 1, 2020 No, on the Photostick flash drive. Jeffrey L. T. von Gluck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Sounds like an expensive usb flash drive running a copy of testdisk. Not a substitute for a proper backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodeo_joe1 Posted January 1, 2020 Share Posted January 1, 2020 Useless if your phone doesn't support USB OTG. And if it does; how difficult is it to copy the entire DCIM directory to any old USB flash or hard drive? The only unique feature I see is the weird Swiss-army knife USB connector. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jochen_S Posted January 2, 2020 Share Posted January 2, 2020 Sorry, no clue about that stuff. I am absolutely not the target market. - My quick search discovered those sticks offered in 8 / 64 / 128GB. One excessively covered event can already exceed 128GB (I admit a slightly leaden trigger finger and yes I'm talking RAW files here). How would Stick #2 know what is left over not backed up after filling Stick #1?Is flash memory the medium to trust?!? - Yes, nice to have but a while ago we all seemed rushing(!) to write images from cards to HDDs. Conclusion: If you have a "silver surfer" / grandma in law type (consumer, not shutterbug!), who fancies to engage into some kind of computer iliteracy, combined with autonomy and a bit of money to spend + seems eager to preserve something digital at all, the device might be right for them. Everybody else should get further doing things by hand and the old way. To me the product looks marketed like "vaporware on sale out". 50% discounted and another 40% on every additional copy? - I'd rather configure stuff I scoop up with some freeware to function that way and my domestic digital mess would surely shout for a different solution. I am usually writing every card to 2 independent computers before I delete it. I backup those machines to external HDDs. Thinking about 128 or less GB: I would rather safe copies of finished files with brag shot quality as JPEGs on a somewhat portable device like a tablet or even phone. Even conventional Netbooks used to come with 256GB HDDs able to hold 128GB of bragshots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey L.T. von Glück Posted January 8, 2020 Author Share Posted January 8, 2020 Sounds like junk to avoid. Thanks for the feedback. Jeffrey L. T. von Gluck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conrad_hoffman Posted January 8, 2020 Share Posted January 8, 2020 I avoid almost anything 3rd party that wants to rummage through my machine looking for specific file types. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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