[conspire] external storage recommendation

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sun Sep 26 17:18:24 PDT 2021


Quoting Dire Red (deirdre at deirdre.net):

> FWIW, there are now smart drive enclosures that will read directly
> from SD cards:
> https://photography-tricks.org/best-portable-external-hard-drives-with-sd-card-reader/

Reading that page suggests a _modest_ amount of information 
about how these things work:  You insert your SD or CF card into 
a slot on the peripheral and press a "copy that sucka" button on the
peripheral.  Firmware within the peripheral then directly bulk-copies
the card's contents into some holding directory in the peripheral's 
data store, without the contents passing through an attached computer or
an attached computer even being required.




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