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Do you feel compelled to buy SD memory cards bigger than you will ever use, just because you can?

Feb 7, 2012 9:16 PM

My sister has an 8mp camera and never shoots video. But she has a 32gb SD card, which should about last her a lifetime. Why do we feel compelled to buy something so much larger than we will ever need?

Is it because we're planning for the future, when we have a 50mp camera?

bnbsouthworth bnbsouthworth

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@tpscan: I sort of do the same thing. I take thousands of pictures in RAW format. I keep those RAW images forever even if the picture looks like crap. Most other people would delete the blurry ones or those where the subject blinked but I have to keep every single picture.

Instead of keeping them on the SD card, I store them on a hard drive and that drive is backed up. When I get enough, I'll burn them on a blu-ray disk for permanent storage.

cengland0 cengland0
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It's the same reason why I exchanged my xmas present of iPad2 16GB and paid the difference to get a 64GB version.. I will probably never fill it up, but I wanted the biggest storage.

devexityspace devexityspace
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I have a sickness, I love to take photos.

Any sane person would just erase SD cards and reuse them, but I grew up with film. I was indoctrinated, you should always hang on the the "originals". Since SD card prices keep going down, it's easy to fill one up and just buy a new one.

I used to just use 2 GB cards because they held a couple hundred photos. Easy to date and categorize. Now 4GB and 8 GB cards seem cramped. The 16GB, class 10 cards for $18-20 just seem like a better deal.

Storage creep is a modern evil.

tpscan tpscan
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If the deal is good, the 32G is sometimes cheaper than the 8G.

I bought a 16G micro for my tablet because it was only $2 more than the 8G that I was looking for. I figure get the bigger card now in case I need it or decide to move it.

wisenekt wisenekt
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Reminds me of the quote "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates (but he claims he never said that)

cengland0 cengland0
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I don't need to compensate...

falcondeal falcondeal
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Well, I have SD cards in 4 GB, 16 GB, and 64 GB varieties, so I guess I sometimes find myself compelled to by large cards. However, I do use all the storage. The 4 GB card lives in my camera and the other two I use to hold mp3s and recorded wav files. I do most of my recording on my hp netbook, and I've found that sd cards are the easiest sure fire way of moving the files around between computers.

clarinerd clarinerd
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No. I don't use the 4 I have now that much.

wickedd365 wickedd365
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I don't know why people do that, but it seems stupid. Now please excuse me, I have to get into my stretch Hummer filled with 12 tons of food, 85 gallons of assorted top-shelf liquors, and $50,000 cash, all of which are thrown out, burned and then replaced daily. I'm also a single man living in a 20,000 sq ft home filled with expensive furniture that is replaced weekly. I saw an ant one of the seven kitchens yesterday, so I might have to burn the house down and build a new one.

captainsuperdawg captainsuperdawg
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Better too much space than not enough!

mlutz3 mlutz3

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