Soul Dr.
Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley
Sandisk now has a 1 Tb SD card available. It's only $450 on their website!
With some of the super mega pixel cameras coming out, they might be a good thing to have?
I don't see needing one in my near future.
will
Tea8
Loc: Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain.
I don't see myself ever needing one just taking photos. Now if I was a video enthusiast, possibly. It is cool that the amount of storage on my external hard drives now fits on an SD card.
I would think, with cameras coming out with two card slots that it wouldn't be needed. But then, who buys what they NEED when it comes to photo gear?
I'd never buy one!
Hundreds of images fit on my 16Gb cards.
I would NEVER go somewhere for a week or three and put every single image on one card.
(Similar to distributive processing, distributive storage.)
I'd never, ever put all my eggs in one basket.
Might be good for a backup though, but right now a 2Tb pocket drive is cheaper.
Tea8 wrote:
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It is cool that the amount of storage on my external hard drives now fits on an SD card.
Yup.
When I first started working with memory, there were chips that were 2Kx1 for static ram. You needed eight chips for one word, but still, only 2048(x8) bits. You'd need 256 chips to store 64K 8-bit words.
Amazing where things have come in 45+ years!
In another year or so you will be able to remove the ending zero from that price. Amazing how cheap storage has become over past 35-40 yrs.
In 1985-86 I bought a new 20 MB, yes Megabyte, hard drive for my XT Computer for $320 and got a steal. (Equivalent to over $700 in today's dollars). It DOUBLED my storage with the 20 Mb already in it!
If you shoot a lot of video (for example, shooting a documentary), then maybe it makes sense to have such a card. For still photography, no.
Stardust wrote:
In another year or so you will be able to remove the ending zero from that price. Amazing how cheap storage has become over past 35-40 yrs.
In 1985-86 I bought a new 20 MB, yes Megabyte, hard drive for my XT Computer for $320 and got a steal. (Equivalent to over $700 in today's dollars). It DOUBLED my storage with the 20 Mb already in it!
I waited until they were below $250!
(I don't remember what was in the computer at the time.)
Soul Dr.
Loc: Beautiful Shenandoah Valley
Longshadow wrote:
I'd never buy one!
Hundreds of images fit on my 16Gb cards.
I would NEVER go somewhere for a week or three and put every single image on one card.
(Similar to distributive processing, distributive storage.)
I'd never, ever put all my eggs in one basket.
Might be good for a backup though, but right now a 2Tb pocket drive is cheaper.
I just bought a 2 Tb Toshiba portable HD, not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes.
For $69 on Amazon.
Will
Soul Dr. wrote:
I just bought a 2 Tb Toshiba portable HD, not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes.
For $69 on Amazon.
Will
Yup. A few of years ago I purchased two WD 1Tb pocket drives for about the same price (each). The price keeps going down and storage capacity keeps going up.
Soul Dr. wrote:
Sandisk now has a 1 Tb SD card available. It's only $450 on their website!
With some of the super mega pixel cameras coming out, they might be a good thing to have?
I don't see needing one in my near future.
will
I prefer putting on several cards.
I don't trust all my photos on one. Sometimes trading out more than once a day using several cards on a trip.
Architect1776 wrote:
I prefer putting on several cards.
I don't trust all my photos on one. Sometimes trading out more than once a day using several cards on a trip.
Indeed, Putting all your eggs in one basket is not wise. One should not concentrate all efforts and resources in one area as one could lose everything.
Prices will drop for sure but not that quickly. My 128gb CFast card cost $360 nearly 3 years ago and the zero has not dropped away...
I can put nearly 5,000 RAW images from my 20mp camera on that card. I think this would be aimed more at video shooters. Especially if video moves beyond 4K.
Stardust wrote:
In another year or so you will be able to remove the ending zero from that price. Amazing how cheap storage has become over past 35-40 yrs.
In 1985-86 I bought a new 20 MB, yes Megabyte, hard drive for my XT Computer for $320 and got a steal. (Equivalent to over $700 in today's dollars). It DOUBLED my storage with the 20 Mb already in it!
DirtFarmer
Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
Stardust wrote:
...In 1985-86 I bought a new 20 MB, yes Megabyte, hard drive for my XT Computer for $320 and got a steal. (Equivalent to over $700 in today's dollars). It DOUBLED my storage with the 20 Mb already in it!
Around 1973 I had a minicomputer. It had 4K of memory. We bought another 4K of memory for $4K. With 8K of memory we were able to run an instrument, record the data, and do some preprocessing of the data, and write it on tape. Programming/display I/O was via an ASR33 teletype, 10 characters/second. The whole system took up a rack and probably weighed 100 lb.
Who remembers the timex-Sinclair 1000 (jokingly referred to as “the doorstop”)? It boasted 3.2K. Extra 10K attachment about $40. You could attach up to four of them. This was the very early 70s. In the late 50s there were three ENIAC computers in United States. One was across the street from where I lived. It ran on 10,000 vacuum tubes. It required two full floors to provide air circulation to prevent overheating. When it turned on, the neighborhood power surge caused the TV picture to shrink momentarily. And you could not watch channel 2 (W CBS), because of the RF interference. That was a 10 K computer. Then came the transistor, and the world changed.
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