Travel video storage

[Tsun]

Hi everyone,
I would like to ask you how do you store your drone videos on longer trips. I just realized that during my upcoming 3 week trip I'll generate probably about 500-700 GB of footage. As most hotel WiFis don't have enough bandwidth to upload data to NAS at home even over night, and my laptop only has about 100 GB free space I need to figure out how to store it. Options I see it are:

2,5" USB HDD: Very cheap, but I'm not sure how HDD would withstand travel conditions, shocks etc. Also a little bulky.
2,5" USB SSD: Moderately cheap, durable, but still a bit bulky.
M.2 USB SSD: Durable and portable, but expensive.
Multiple SD cards: Most convenient, but very expensive.

Do you have any other ideas?

 

[Dragonfly]

For value, speed, and safty of storage 2.5 inch USB solid State drive is hard to beat. A 1TB would surfice and would provide fast and safe backup of all your video files. It's not that bulky and is quite lite.
USB thumb drives and SD cards are too slow and easy to loose plus you need a few of them to aquire 1TB equivalent storage which puts the cost up. Plus large size SD cards are not trust worthy and often are vulnerable to data dump.
Wouldn't even consider a standard 2.5 inch USB backup drive. Slow and very suceptable to knocks/bumbs etc

Definitely a 1TB USB SS drive. $100 to safely store valuable video!! Yes.

5x 256gb SD cards at $40each = $200

 

[Mikero]

Hi everyone,
I would like to ask you how do you store your drone videos on longer trips. I just realized that during my upcoming 3 week trip I'll generate probably about 500-700 GB of footage. As most hotel WiFis don't have enough bandwidth to upload data to NAS at home even over night, and my laptop only has about 100 GB free space I need to figure out how to store it. Options I see it are:

2,5" USB HDD: Very cheap, but I'm not sure how HDD would withstand travel conditions, shocks etc. Also a little bulky.
2,5" USB SSD: Moderately cheap, durable, but still a bit bulky.
M.2 USB SSD: Durable and portable, but expensive.
Multiple SD cards: Most convenient, but very expensive.

Do you have any other ideas?

I bought a DJI LaCie CoPilot which has 2TB of storage and a built in battery for charging both AC and remote on the go. It is rather expensive but it is good!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/LaCie-Copilot-Portable-External-Solution/dp/B078H38RZM/ref=asc_df_B078H38RZM/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310831391922&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=12403910635598570092&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9041111&hvtargid=pla-491051551635&psc=1&th=1&psc=1

 

[TheWolfen]

I've been using a 2.5" USB 3.0 hard drive for some time with no issues. I use a 7200rpm 1TB drive and this class of drive parks heads when not being used and has other shock protection systems built in. I doubt you'd have any issues with one during travel, but if you can afford it, an SSD is a better choice, of course. Better performance and totally shock proof - just higher cost.

 

[Tsun]

Thanks guys for the feedback, I think I'll go with a SSD. After some reading, HDD very likely would be fine as well, but as I have an old SSD lying around, for the peace of mind I'll just use it.