Help South america Cloud Storage???

If using public computers be careful for viruses and other nasties on your cards/pendrives. A friend lost all his snaps this way.
Uploading takes time, many internet service companies have slower upload speeds.
One advantage of saving your stuff online is that in the event your gear is stolen you'll still have your pics.

Yuma there's heaps out there..just google it.
Dell, Acer, Toshiba, IBM, HP. Just find one that's in your price bracket. Just make sure it is Win 7 and has wifi, 3 or 4 USB poots and a built in SD card reader.

If using public computers be careful for viruses and other nasties on your cards/pendrives. A friend lost all his snaps this way.

The Locks on the memory card didn't work????

Uploading takes time, many internet service companies have slower upload speeds.
One advantage of saving your stuff online is that in the event your gear is stolen you'll still have your pics.

I understand but if i have to spend an hour a day uploading pics i will do it to make sure they are safe right?

Yeah. It is overkill. Do the math, what is the size of your average photo? How many shots can you carry on the two 16GB cards you already have? Have you ever filled even one of your 16GB cards? Are you going to store so many photos that your worthwhile shots will be lost in the avalanche of captured memories?

I just store on my SDHD, keep them in their plastic case and seal in a baggie. They are small and light and not as prone to damage as a cd/dvd.

Absent the risk of theft, flood or fire, of course.

Edited by: TravelinTom

Thanks Tom. 12 megapixel camera. I dont think I will be taking pictures non stop all day? I have 3 battries a charger , usb cable, and 2 16 gb extreme pro sandisk memory cards with locks. I will be getting a year of storage with www.idrive.com , burning cds whenever possible. and uploading to Facebook and hotmail. anything else i can think of will do to! i will invest in a flash drive when i get to South america probably in Ushuaia TAX FREE!!!!

My friend isn't very tech savvy so no idea about the read-only switch, my guess is he didn't even know there was one. It was five years ago. My point is be careful, people will tell you it isn't possible for memory cards/pen drives to get viruses, which is total nonsense. If your camera has internal (non-removable) storage I would be wary of connecting it to a computer I wasn't sure about. I just picked up a Lumix point-and-shoot (LS5) and it has a small amount of built-in memory, barely enough for one pic. I'll do some research into what this area is about and accessing it when I have some time.

If your uploads take a long a time it may not be practical to, let's say, hang around an internet place for four hours while the upload runs. However, if you had your own notebook and you were staying in a place with wifi you could just let it run overnight.

I visited a duty-free zone in the north of Chile once (I think it was Iquique) and wasn't too impressed with the price of things, didn't by anything. Later, when traveling south and well out of town there was an inspection point, they were asking what things we bought in the duty-free zone. I've done a lot of overland travel over the decades, and this inspection was one of the most rigorous I experienced, and this wasn't even a border crossing! A lot of us were getting our bags emptied and scrutinized, long tables right there on the side of the road. The question was more "where did you get this?" as opposed to "what do you have?" This was just a regular Chilean bus between towns. Made me wonder what the attraction of the zone was. Anyway, I have no idea what Ushuia is about, and have never been much of a duty-free shopper (got a bunch of Milky Ways on the ferry out of Argentina once :^) but I figure I'd mention this.

I'm currently in SE Asia, the going rate for pen drives is about US$8 for 8Gb and US$15 for 16Gb, full-sized SD cards are app. same prices, maybe a little cheaper depending on brand name. I looked on amazon.com and it's roughly the same prices. My guess is the prices won't be much better in a S. American duty-free zone. You might consider stocking up before you go.

Ok thanks for the tips i just figured they would be cheaper over there.

the only problem with uploading my pics overnight
would be that i am staying in Hostels 90% of time i could easily wake up with no camera or notebook. so spending 4 hours in a internet cafe is worth it even if im just uploading Important Pictures and risk losing the not so important right?

i dont know where your from? but here in California

16gb memory card cost me 70 dollars so compare that to 15$? and its next to free!

Glad I could help.
Shop around for the cards online for deals (I briefly checked amazon while writing my previous msg). I don't know about the latest in memory speeds etc, but I notice that even here in SEA the price can vary up to 4 times the cost of the cheapest ones, which I think are the brand Transcend. They threw in a 2Gb one of these when I bought my Lumix, it's ok so far, but then again I never saved more than a few hundred Mb at a time before copying out and reformatting.

When it's all over be sure to tell us what strategy you used and how it went.

I will thanks a Lot bendejo and everyone else who gave advice. 10 days left before i fly to buenos aires!!!!

By far the easiest and cheapest is get 6-7 16gig flash cards for the camera. I think they will be much cheaper in California than anywhere “tax free” in Argentina. 16 gig cards run as low as $19.00 each $100 worth will give you 80gigs of photos more than you will ever look at. Shoot the card full and put it in your passport case which of course you will never lose.

Backing up to CD or DVDs takes a computer which may add viruses to your flash card. Using a USB flash drive requires a computer that may corrupt the USB drive.

More cards for you camera is the best way to go.