Gotek Wifi?

[behines]

I continue to slowly spool up on learning my way around my recently acquired TRS-80 Model III.

The Gotek drive is a really great thing. However, using sneaker-net to transfer disk images from PC to Gotek is a bit tiresome.

I just stumbled across a thing called a "Wifi USB stick", with the Sandisk Connect being an example. This sounds perfect. Has anyone tried one of these? I get the idea that it basically turns your USB stick into a tiny NAS.

But reviews are mixed. People say that the Wifi capability is no longer supported by Sandisk so it it just an expensive USB drive. I note that it is USB 2.0 only. And I'm not finding any other products like it at the moment.


Has anyone used a gadget like this, that they can recommend? Or is there some other alternative to sneakernet?


Thanks,
Brad

 

[VERAULT]

There used to be SD cards with WIFI.. Dont know why but them came and went and I never got to test one. USB memory stick with wifi you say? Can you post a link?

 

[cjs]

I do have one of those SD cards with WiFi; I bought it for use in my camera since I thought it would be easier to get images off it than pulling the card.

For me, anyway, that turned out not to be the case; it has its own little web server and a bunch of hoops you need to jump through to make it work. I'm not sure I ever got it connected to my home WiFi network; I think I always ended up having to switch to the separate WiFi network that it set up in order to talk to it.

 

[VERAULT]

For me, anyway, that turned out not to be the case; it has its own little web server and a bunch of hoops you need to jump through to make it work.

Now that you say that, it rings a bell. That would make its "functionality" a bit off putting for many uses.

 

[cjs]

Now that you say that, it rings a bell. That would make its "functionality" a bit off putting for many uses.

Yeah. It's all coming back to me now. Basically, "connect to card WiFi (disconnecting from home WiFi while doing that), load up page in browser, download files, delete files, reconnect to home WiFi" followed by whatever processing I needed to do was far more of a pain than, "yank card from camera, insert into computer, run script, yank card from computer, put back in camera."

But then, when I have to deal with transfers of this sort I do tend to use a lot of scripting to help things out. So my procedure for dealing with Gotek USB storage would probably be to keep a mirror directory on my system with everything I wanted and then, once in a while, pull the USB drive from the Gotek, plug it in, run a script to sync with the mirror, and then put the USB device back.