I am still looking around for alternatives for more storage for a portable sd camcorder

I want to run a sd card reader extension cable to an USB 3 sd card reader which will be plugged into a portable external usb 3 ssd with its own power supply

see links

Extension SD SDHC Micro Card Reader Cable
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Extension-SD-SDHC-Micro-Card-Reader-Cable-Cord-Adapter-for-GPS-DVD-LED-Screen-/111183763834?pt=AU_Digital_Memory_Card_Readers_Adaptors&hash=item19e311997a

USB 3.0 Flash Card Reader – Secure Digital (SD) Card
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Iogear-GFR304SD-USB-3-0-Flash-Card-Reader-Secure-Digital-SD-Card-Secure-Dig-/231089411663?pt=US_Memory_Card_Readers_Adapters&hash=item35ce00964f

SanDisk Ultra Plus Solid State Drive 256GB SSD 530MB/s SATA 6Gbit/s

this ssd will need to run on portable power

any suggestions?

any better products out there?

the Extension SD SDHC Micro Card Reader Cable has a reader on one end with the other end plugging into whatever device you have

cutting off the reader at one end off the sd cable and terminating it with a fake reader like as on the other end should work

I say should, any possible problems ?

So you have a daisychain of hardware…

-> -> ->

Where is the drive size limitation? In the available SD drives, or the capabilities of the camera?

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD?

oops…

Carmen_Sandiego said:

So you have a daisychain of hardware…

{Dummy SD card} -> {SD card to USB adapter} -> {?} -> {SSD}

Where is the drive size limitation? In the available SD drives, or the capabilities of the camera?

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD?

Carmen_Sandiego said:

oops…

Carmen_Sandiego said:

So you have a daisychain of hardware…

{Dummy SD card} -> {SD card to USB adapter} -> {?} -> {SSD}

Where is the drive size limitation? In the available SD drives, or the capabilities of the camera?

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD?

{Dummy SD card} > sd cable-> {dummy SD card } plugged into USB 3 card adapter} ->{sata controller in external portable hd enclosure SSD}

Where is the drive size limitation? = In the available SD drives

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD? = The sata controller in the external drive

something like this one
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/0-P-H-Verbatim-Aust-2-5-StorenGo-External-USB3-0-SSD-Drive-256GB-47623-/181196913932?pt=AU_HardDrives&hash=item2a302d7d0c

something like that external ssd but with external power so the ssd doesnt drain the camcorder

CrazyNeutrino said:

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD? = The sata controller in the external drive

Won’t work. A USB slave needs to be plugged into a USB master, two slaves plugged together won’t see each other.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD? = The sata controller in the external drive

Won’t work. A USB slave needs to be plugged into a USB master, two slaves plugged together won’t see each other.

there is only one drive

the external ssd

do you mean the ssd wont see the usb sd reader?

CrazyNeutrino said:

Carmen_Sandiego said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

What are you using to convert the slave USB of the adapter to the SSD? = The sata controller in the external drive

Won’t work. A USB slave needs to be plugged into a USB master, two slaves plugged together won’t see each other.

there is only one drive

the external ssd

No, you have two drives – the SD card and the SSD. You need extra hardware to allow the two to talk together, possibly a Raspberry pi could be programmed to do the job.

Carmen_Sandiego said:

CrazyNeutrino said:

Carmen_Sandiego said:

Won’t work. A USB slave needs to be plugged into a USB master, two slaves plugged together won’t see each other.

there is only one drive

the external ssd

No, you have two drives – the SD card and the SSD. You need extra hardware to allow the two to talk together, possibly a Raspberry pi could be programmed to do the job.

ok, thanks, I’ll explore further

A 64GB SD card would probably give you about 22 hours of HD recording time (This is just a guess – this depends on the compression type used by your camcorder). How much recording time do you need?