I was told by a shop assistant that it is better not get high capacity SD cards like 32GB because they cause more problems, compared to smaller cap SD cards, like 16GB. Is this true?
I was told by a shop assistant that it is better not get high capacity SD cards like 32GB because they cause more problems, compared to smaller cap SD cards, like 16GB. Is this true?
Thanks for comments. I think the shop assistant was alluding to the risk of putting more eggs into a bigger basket, like some of you have mentioned.
I'm going on a 2 weeks trip in March, and expect to take a lot of pics and videos on my Sony RX100. Unless I bring a device/PC to download from the SD cards, I might need quite a lot of cards. So having bigger cards would be better, but the risk remains.
Anyone here ever had an SD card fail on you?
Thanks for comments. I think the shop assistant was alluding to the risk of putting more eggs into a bigger basket, like some of you have mentioned.
I'm going on a 2 weeks trip in March, and expect to take a lot of pics and videos on my Sony RX100. Unless I bring a device/PC to download from the SD cards, I might need quite a lot of cards. So having bigger cards would be better, but the risk remains.
Anyone here ever had an SD card fail on you?
I'm bringing my Ipads along on my trip, so maybe I should get an SD card reader for the Ipad to transfer some pics there, in case run out of SD cards.
Anyone here has done this before?
If card failure or corruption is such worry/risk, then you should get a camera with dual memory slots.
I don't really see how using a smaller memory card helps anyway. If it's gonna fail, it will fail.
If really smaller cards are more reliable, by extrapolating this argument, then one should use, say lots of 1GB or 2GB cards instead.
I hope the logic is not just blindly applied over from those that argues bigger harddisks are more prone to failures.
Why not going to any Internet Cafe and let them burn it on DVD? You could also bring a small mobile HDD and copy all files over, but then you need to be careful since it's mechanically sensitive. To me any HDD with bubble wrap looks better than the bulky iPad. And much better cost rate per GB anyway...I'm bringing my Ipads along on my trip, so maybe I should get an SD card reader for the Ipad to transfer some pics there, in case run out of SD cards.
Anyone here has done this before?
The thinking is - If you use 2x16G cards, if one gets corrupted you lose only up to 16G of data while the 32G will lead to loss up to 32G of data. You halved the risk of loss of data if a card fail. It can happen.
"Put all your eggs in one basket..."
That is obvious.
Well, then why not use 4x 8G cards, or 8x 4G cards... you see where this is going? If you say that 16G cards are a sweet spot for minimizing loss from card failure vs hassle of changing many smaller cards, then by all means go ahead, but does that mean you will never use 32G or larger cards in future, even when the world has moved on???
I think the more cards you have, the risk of one breaking down or getting lost is also higher. So in the end, there might be a trade off. 16GB certainly looks like a sweet spot.
Rhino - I'm likely going to Israel/Istanbul for 2 weeks, not Malaysia. Probably take some videos too.