Need a bigger SD card?

Think i would rather have multiples that add up to 1TB than rely solely on just one card.

1TB would equate to approx 35,000 raw files from my XT1.
Imagine a card failure at 34,999 with no recovery and no previous backup :D

Joking aside though it is amazing how much they can cram on to these cards.
Im curious where the limit is before the size of the card has to potentially change.
 
stupar said:
1TB would equate to approx 35,000 raw files from my XT1
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I was about to say "That's an awful lot of eggs in one basket"
 
TBH I can't really imagine the need for use in a camera, as you both say that number of images on a single card would seem like madness!
Having said that, local news reported a wedding tog's house being broken into overnight and his Macbook and additional drives being stolen, images of many weddings including two that had not been processed and given to the married couples!
I guess it might have been useful as an additional, less obvious, source of backup. :(
 
gramps said:
Having said that, local news reported a wedding tog's house being broken into overnight and his Macbook and additional drives being stolen, images of many weddings including two that had not been processed and given to the married couples!
I guess it might have been useful as an additional, less obvious, source of backup. :(
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Thats a big faux pa!
If ever there was a need to justify backing up content to off site storage then this is it.
More so when it is your business.
 
is it worth filling the card ,downloading them to your hard drive,not deleting the images and keep the card as another back up?? I suppose it depends in his much the 1TB cards are.
 
steelydan said:
is it worth filling the card ,downloading them to your hard drive,not deleting the images and keep the card as another back up?? I suppose it depends in his much the 1TB cards are.
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When Sandisk announced the 512GB card a couple of years ago its release price was approx $800.
Today you can buy it for £300.
I reckon the 1TB release price will be between the $800-1000 mark.

For that money you could invest in a decent NAS system plus cloud storage or similar.
 
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Reading the press release that was linked to its described as a prototype for showcase at photokina. It sounds like they have do it because they could and WD have something to show off for the first time since their recent acquisition of SanDisk. It's probably been in development before WD bought SanDisk but it's ideal timing.

I honestly don't think there is a need for such a large card especially for still photographers but the press release does mention 4K and 8k video along with new generation 360 cameras. I can see there being a benefit there.

I thought 64gb was large. I keep a 64gb card in slot 2 and swap in and smaller 32gb cards in slot 1. For me it's the best of both worlds, a large capacity card that's never removed from the camera (SD cards mainly fail due to the nature of taking the in and out of the camera, they are rated for a number of cycles) and a smaller card that can be swapped over so not all images are on one card. The 32gb cards are usually swapped over before they are full too so I rarely have all images on 2 cards.
 
stupar said:
When Sandisk announced the 512GB card a couple of years ago its release price was approx $800.
Today you can buy it for £300.
I reckon the 1TB release price will be between the $800-1000 mark.

For that money you could invest in a decent NAS system plus cloud storage or similar.
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There are better ways to back up than SD for that money. I'm not sure that SD cards should be considered a backup option, in the field yes but at home no.

I'm sure there will be some specialist users out there that need this kind of storage although I'm not sure if those specialist users use SD card compatible equipment. I couldn't see BBC natural history unit recording onto SD cards but I could be wrong. For most electrical equipment, drones for example, you are going to be limited by the battery life before you run out of memory. Swapping in a full battery and an empty card every time wouldn't really be a hardship.
 
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File sizes will expand to meet the card as they always have. you might think it's huge but in a couple of years...
 
They are making these cards more so for video recording devises that are using these cards for recording the likes of 4K raw video. We use 128 gig cards and an additional 128 gig for backup but we shoot in HD only, still 1080p uses up the cards fast enough to need to have a few spares for each camera.

4K Raw is going to be mahoosive amounts of data. Not sure on speed requirements though.
 
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