Flashtrax multimedia

Peter Rowlands · Issue 20, Aug/Sep 2004 · pp. 23

Products mentioned: Flashtrax

Flashtrax multimedia By Peter Rowlands There’s a saying in the computer world that you only become interested in backing up data after you’ve lost something vital into which you had devoted a lot of time and effort. As a result I’ve always been a paranoid backup freak. When I go away on a photo trip I try to have backups for literally everything - battery chargers, power supplies, cameras, flashguns etc etc. My principle is that if I have two of everything I probably won’t get put out of action if something fails. But in my armoury of photo attire I have a weak link in that, if my laptop computer was to fail, I would have no way of downloading images to view and assess. With this in mind I researched a solution to this problem and discovered a very neat, small and light hard drive which is designed to either replace a laptop or act as a backup. The Flashtrax I was sent for review had a w…