So, I am considering getting an 80Gb Hyperdrive SPACE to speed up my day. From what I understand, it will upload about a gig a minute from the CompactFlash.

Additionally, I will be able to use it as an external hard drive for lightroom without having to actually save it onto my hardrive if I want to do a slideshow at the event. Have I got that right?

Anyone have experience with this? Pitfalls I am missing?

Sounds good... but I'm not super techy... I'd be interested in what others think.

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Does anyone even have a Hyperdrive?

I have one and love it. I bought it because I didn't want any of the high-end Epson et al devices with their fancy preview screens ... I just wanted a memory card backup device, and it works well. When you hook it up to your PC it basically becomes an extra hard drive, so you could use it directly in Lightroom, but I wouldn't necessarily recommend this if you want to maintain a good backup workflow ...

I have the original Hyperdrive - the HD80.

It's OK - when it wants to recognise the batteries. Sometimes there'll be a fresh set of AA NiMh batteries in and no matter how much I clean the contacts, it won't recognise them and won't power up.

It can corrupt images. I copied filed from my memory card and it corrupted one as it stored it on the hyperdrive. Fortunately I didn't format the card and was able to rescue the file from the card. On the drive, that file was unusable.

Other than that and the general fragility of the battery door, it seems fine.