Thecus YES Nano N1050 OTG: More Than Just a Mobile Backup Box?

Speaking from the point of a serious amateur photographer who shoots RAW & hence gets ~90 shots to a 1Gb CF card the problem with the Thecus Yes is that it has to be connected to the camera to backup (probably about a 6 minute job) thereby meaning that you can't be shooting whilst it's doing that.
Other devices such as the Jobo Giga One incorporate a card reader so that you can switch cards & keep on shooting whilst it backs up your images.
Even better you can actually buy the chassis of these (there's obviously 1 or 2 factories churning them out in slight variatons for different brands) for little more than the Thecus & fit your own hdd as with the Thecus.

P.S. in case anybody is wondering about the need I & others can easily shoot 800-1000 pics in a day e.g at an airshow - my homebuild "Giga One alike" has already paid for itself in not having to buy another 4Gb or so of CF.

that's one of the devices of which I spoke ...
I'm sure that you can get similar features in the US market already e.g. the Jobo Giga 1 (btw look at things like the placement of the various ports on that Digimate & the Jobo), SmartDisk PhotoBank etc.

I bought a thecus N1050 this week as I was impressed by the article in TH. As an external HD it works fine ( but i did'nt buy it for that, there are other cheaper or more performant solutions to be had. I cannot make the OTG digital photo registration feature work. Tried everything, changed hd, used cardreader,canon digicams (G3 and powershot s2is).No avail! The copy button does nothing! No reaction from the HD.The HD inside was a fujitsu 60 gb from jan 2006.I tried other brands (hitachi).The Thecus has probably not been sold so well in Belgium and remained in stock at the supplier.Could there be a firmware upgrade since then? I don't find any on the thecus site, but I fear the worst.