Originally posted by CapitanXeon An 8TB SSD drive is already 1600€. Using a 10TB drive would actually mean that the camera packs some 12 or 16GB SSD partitioned in a way that keeps 10TB available to the user, with the rest private to the camera firmware for its own operation as well as cell health purposes. 16TB would already net 3200€ in a format that's stupidly big for a DSLR, so miniaturization would come in and you'd be the one paying that tax. I'm not here to pay 4 grand just for the camera storage, honestly, when i can just use the ol' reliable cards that we aren't having any issues with.
And here, the "failing card" argument wouldn't be working because then we'd be talking about a completely failed camera that'd need to go servicing.
Help me here on the arithmetic:
8tb in 128gb cards equates to 64 sd cards.
I wonder how many people fill up that many sd cards before they get an opportunity to copy the sd cards to a computer, laptop or external drive.
Sounds like a high risk move to trust that many sd cards with an expedition's image data before securing it on some other media.
If I go on a photo trip I copy the data from the cards to my laptop's two internal drives twice a day. Once at lunch and again at night.
Thus, 8tb sounds a bit over the top. I think 1tb m.2 built-in SSD plus a USB-C port could be sufficient.
On a related subject, I am thinking of getting one of these units for in-field securing image data. It looks versatile enough to cover my data security concerns and the number of external storage devices you can connect to it seems plenty enough.
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1481554-REG/nexto_di_nps_10_cfast_portable_all_in_1.html