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I only put junk on it to transfer or minor 4th tier backups but I had a 2.5 inch external non ssd drop and bounce a around on my concrete floor in garage about 8 years ago. Still works fine. Do I actually trust it? No never. But I’ll use it for redundant data or like a large drive to pass things to friends if needed. Drives are more resilient than you think if it’s not powered on at time of destruction.
The right thing to do is have a large card in both card slots recording redundantly, so if one card is corrupt, you have a backup.
Hey all! So I’ve been curious, has anyone had any SD card failures to where they lost some or all footage? Currently I shoot on the Sony A7III and the A7IV. I utilize both a 256GB SD card, and a 128GB. I have a 64GB as my absolute backup. Someone else I worked with at one point mentioned to me that they shoot on 3-4 64GB cards, due to them not wanting the SD card containing all of the footage being ruined or corrupted, and using 3-4 cards rather than just 1.
It’s a good idea, but curious how “common” SD card failures are. I shoot around 5-10 weddings per year (side business lol) and never have had the issue, and always utilized the 256GB for every shoot.
Is this bad? Not recommended? Curious on others thoughts, thanks!
The SD cards I bought in November for $25 are now $100🥲 currently saving all my raws on an external hard drive and wiping all my cards to reuse. Also got curious and looked at my ram I bought when I built my PC. I remember buying 2 16gb ram sticks for $23ish dollars like in 2023. Ridiculously cheap. And now those same ram sticks are $250 ðŸ˜
You want hard-drives. Keep a backup with you and make a copy of the backup and send it to a remote location, family, bank safe, storage unit.
Bloody hell! I bought 2 x 128g Lexar pro cards from Amazon back in October for £47. A single 128g card is now £64. That’s insane!
Blu-ray disc.
A 50 pack of 25gb discs is $40 USD
The drive is around $100.
Or verbatim DVD, 4.7 gb each, cheaper but you probably already have the drive. Make 3-5 copies.
If you need to ask go with iCloud or OneDrive. They’ve made it a commodity and it’s pretty much subscribe and forget about it.
Same exact thing that is happening to DRAM is happening to flash memory. Because they are basically manufactured the same way by the same companies.
There is a shortage and all the capacity is used to manufacture the kind of memory the AI industry is buying. Like all of it.
Make physical copies. Your only worry is fire or water. Fire and water also damage electronic devices too, but at least you won’t worry about bit rot or other beautiful things with physical media
Components used to make those are also used in flash memory. Not only, but production equipment and square footage and staffing that make SD cards are being converted to produce more licrative storage and memory options to tailor to AI customers, which means reduced/canned production as well.
SD cards fall under the category of flash storage. The whole market is getting hit.
I use passports. Is that reliable? Please educate me as an expert would.
I bought this v90 SD card just a couple months ago and it’s now doubled in price. I know AI infrastructure is destroying the RAM market and some flash storage, but is this really affecting SD card prices as well?
Dual card slots removes that issue.
I’d recommend large cards that don’t leave camera all day. It’s more likely to misplace/lose a card than corruption.
2 corrupted cards and 1 hard drive in 600+ weddings so far. Saved by proper backups