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SD-to-SATA adapter

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I have a camera, which takes SD cards up to XC (so theoretically up to 2TB) and I was wondering if there was any way to adapt SD write signals to ordinary SATA drive signals through use of an adapter of some sorts. Say, have an SD-shaped connector which plugs into the slot in the camera, then is wired through to a SATA adapter connected to a hard drive or an SSD. Is there any way of doing this or...?

I know that USB can be adapted to SD cards, and that USB can also be adapted to SATA. But I also know that the formatting and protocols for the different medias are pretty different, so I know it's probably impossible to adapt them. I was just curious. I'd like to attach a hard disk to my camera. I can use an external battery to power both the drive and the camera, so...

What do you guys think?

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My sister in law uses a wifi sd card, the camera thinks it is writing the photo to an sd card but the card is sending the photo directly to her laptop via wifi.

 

I don't know if that helps in your quest.

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i know that some high end top notch cameras have add-on ssd slots if that helps. (what camera do you have?)

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Just to clarify this to me and others reading. The transfer you are looking for is SD to SATA HDD right? And not using anything in between them. I would almost bet that there isn't just any cable for it because such transfer would need something to command it in between the two storage devices. You could have HDD directly connected to camera with USB if camera allows using external drive as storage method. And you could even find SD to SATA so that SD is connected to mobo as SSD style drive.

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Just to clarify this to me and others reading. The transfer you are looking for is SD to SATA HDD right? And not using anything in between them. I would almost bet that there isn't just any cable for it because such transfer would need something to command it in between the two storage devices. You could have HDD directly connected to camera with USB if camera allows using external drive as storage method. And you could even find SD to SATA so that SD is connected to mobo as SSD style drive.

No, I was thinking more along the lines of a signal adapter. Like, you know how in external hard drives you have an interface board there that interprets the signal from USB to SATA and vice versa? I was thinking something like that, but from an SD card-shaped connector to an adapter like that. I don't know if it's possible but I'd like to think it is.

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No, I was thinking more along the lines of a signal adapter. Like, you know how in external hard drives you have an interface board there that interprets the signal from USB to SATA and vice versa? I was thinking something like that, but from an SD card-shaped connector to an adapter like that. I don't know if it's possible but I'd like to think it is.

 

No, I don't think that exists (could be wrong but I doubt it),  the wifi card I mentioned earlier is your best bet.  You can have the software put the photo on any hdd, usb drive sd card, or attached storage medium.

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