Sun Aug 07, 2022 7:49 pm
Jim Simon wrote:Ellory Yu wrote:I still don’t get the appeal for a fast write speed high capacity SD card if the camera can take CFAST or SSD
CFAST is significantly more expensive. SSD is an external solution, adding failure points and often additional weight to help mitigate those.
Jim, very dense cards especially in SD cards that over 256Gb are highly susceptible to failures, possibly slightly higher or equal to SSD failure points anyway, being that SSD at those capacities are cheaper when price is in question. A 1TB SD card is not cheap. CFast cards are not significantly expensive when you compute per Gigabyte cost and gives you a lot less failure rate. That’s my 2 cents anyway.
1TB SDXC card ~ $499, 1 TB CFast card ~ $699, 1TB Samsung T5 ~ $109
As a side note, I don’t use high capacity cards when I shoot production material. I use 256gb CFast cards and if I need a terabyte for the day shoot, I will bring 4 or 5 256s and have the DIT offload it and duplicated as each gets filled up. Just my SOP.
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