By Peter Bates
There is now a new reason for purchasing an SD card. Backup. Even though the 16 GB SanDisk Secure Digital Ultra III Flash memory card is capacious enough to store 4,000 JPEG images from a typical 10-megapixel camera, it can also serve as backup for a SD-port-ready computer.
There is now a new reason for purchasing an SD card. Backup. Even though the 16 GB SanDisk Secure Digital Ultra III Flash memory card is capacious enough to store 4,000 JPEG images from a typical 10-megapixel camera, it can also serve as backup for a SD-port-ready computer. How important is this? Here is a quote from the Consumer Electronic Association's article, CONSUMERS FAIL TO PROPERLY BACK UP LARGE DIGITAL LIBRARIES:
Americans are failing to regularly back up their digital photos, music, documents or other types of files, according to a new study released by the Consumer Electronic Association. According to the report, "nearly a quarter of Americans are not consciously backing up their files because they think that it's too time-consuming." Yet there is a simple way around this dilemma: insert a 16 GB card like Sandisk's, activate an automated backup scheme, and forget about it. There are literally dozens to choose from, like Acronis' excellent True Image Home or Second Copy by Second Copy Centered Systems. These two handy programs can be set up to copy your data on schedule. Memeo offers Autobackup, a real-time backup system that creates backups as you save new files so that you're never more than a few seconds away from a backup copy. (Of course it is a bit resource intensive, but that's a small price to pay for security.)
Because the SanDisk card has a 16 GB capacity, you can fit most of your vital data files onto it, whether from a laptop or desktop computer. Typically any files older than a few months can be archived onto DVD discs. The SanDisk card is also useful for amateur photographers taking trips longer than a weekend. Even with 9 or 10 MB per picture, you can fit 1600 of them on one card. Even if you film with a camcorder, make sure you buy one that records its data onto an SD card, like several Sony camcorders do now. You'll get more than a half hour of video onto a 16 GB card.
There is one downside to having such a large amount of storage on one card. If it fails while you are traveling - and failures have been known to happen with this type of media - you lose everything. Sixteen gigabytes of photographs or video content, gone and likely unrecoverable (except perhaps, for a hefty price). Either back this baby up every day on a portable "photo safe" USB drive, or don't get it at all. Some photographers avoid the high capacity drives altogether, preferring to backup onto smaller cards, like the 2 GB version. The choice is up to you.
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