DavidWEGS wrote:
Its has been discussed a while back (when CF and SD were the new things to write to) about failures. The general consensus is that if a card will fail, its either pretty much right away (like the first time you either fill the card, format the card or use it), or it will fail at the end of its cycle of life (for most cards, that time is around 100k erases, not images, erases as in format cycles).
That's what I recall from this discussion in the past.
Thanks, that's helpful to know, but you sure about 100k? I'm amazed it would be that high. If I format my card once a day, that means it should last me close to 300 years!
Ideally I'd have a very large card of identical capacity in each slot - mirror the data between the two cards.
2 x 64GB per camera should do nicely. The only reason I haven't done this is because I don't feel like ditching all of my current cards. Currently I use a handful of Sandisk Extreme 16GB cards and just "span" between the two cards.
deepbluejh wrote:
Ideally I'd have a very large card of identical capacity in each slot - mirror the data between the two cards.
2 x 64GB per camera should do nicely. The only reason I haven't done this is because I don't feel like ditching all of my current cards. Currently I use a handful of Sandisk Extreme 16GB cards and just "span" between the two cards.
Same here. I have 4-32gb cards and don't feel like ditching them for 64gb ones. Hell, Sony doesn't even make a 64gb XQD. If they did I would be a pyramid of the price anyway.
