Originally Posted by
CPRich
What did you mean when you say your cards are getting a little full? Any camera memory card is meant for short-term storage until you can download them to a PC for permanent storage. They are then cleared/formatted and re-used. Are you intending to use CF cards as your only/long-term storage of all your images?
Originally Posted by
abmj-jr
+1. Camera memory cards are not designed nor meant for long-term storage. I'd really recommend copying all of your images to a hard disk drive, perhaps the one on your computer. Then, I'd purchase an inexpensive external HDD, they are very affordable, and re-copy the images to the external drive as a second back-up. Camera memory cards do fail over time.
If you remove all your images from your cards, you can then reformat them and use them for future photos, eliminating the need to buy new ones.
Oh, I know that. I have a lot of folders on the disk where I sort and store the pix I want to keep.
But I'm a little lazy - I often leave snaps on the card for some time before I do anything with them.
When I started out with this stuff, I got a couple of 1 gb cards, and I'm finding that, unless I keep after it, they wind up half to three quarters full the next time I want to use it. So, when the chance came to get some significantly larger storage I jumped at it - especially since the price was good.
Re: speed - it appears that the data transfers to the card quicker than the older ones, which would make sense if they were originally intended as hard disk replacements. They also seem to read a bit faster.
So, bottom line: I'm happy with them, just a little worried about there being something I was overlooking. And I doubt I'll be using their SMART capability or write protection.
Thanks guys.