I need a SDHC memory card of whatever capacity for an outdoor still/video/timelapse wildlife camera I'm setting up in my backyard. Full-size or micro doesn't matter; the camera takes full-size but I already have an adapter, just no disused memory cards to go with. 4GB would be plenty for this since I'm able to check it & clean out the pics daily. I think I'm probably the last person in the civilized world that doesn't have one or a few leftover/upgraded memory cards hidden in a drawer somewhere, and I hate to buy a new one when I know there are lots of old low-capacity ones out there that'll likely never be used again.
You can 'donate' one, or I can send you a BLF 15DD or 20DD driver in return, if it's a larger capacity card that's less unuseful than a smaller/older one.
Not so cheap if I buy one retail in a local store, and it's downright stupid to order something so small online and then have it shipped a few thousand miles, when, as I think I already said, I know there are lots of them sitting around unused. 'Just buy a new one!' is the cause of a lot of our problems these days, in case you haven't been keeping up with things.
I don't think I want to go smaller than 4GB, I don't have the camera in hand yet and don't know what kind of filesizes it does if I decide to set it for video instead of just stills.
Another reason I don't want to buy new is that the $-per-GB sweet spot is around the 32GB for micro, and 64GB for the full size SDHC/SDXC, and both those are way above my needs for this. It would just be wasted, yet hard to justify buying a smaller one that's not as good value. Knowwhatimean? :)
edit: And, I have a 64GB microSDXC in my phone but the 128GB prices haven't come down enough yet to justify an upgrade there, plus I'm not even close to filling that one up.
If you have something that's really thrashing with lots of writes, your device will eventually die. It happens with SSDs on PCs; that's part of why I am not jumping on the SSD bandwagon for PC use.
And sometimes, flash devices just fail; I've had several flash drives and SD cards just stop working, I think possibly due to a bad connection or solder joint in some cases...
Keltex, the SSD era is well and truly here. It is fast, reliable, and stable. Stick with Intel, Crucial, or Samsung and you can’t go wrong. In any case, important stuff should be backed up to a mechanical disk/online. Failure rates for SSDs are statistically very low - 1.5. Mechanical disk at 5. Rough figures, I’m sure there are many strings attached to them but yo uget the idea. Week In Tech: Are SSDs Really Reliable? | Rock Paper Shotgun
A 128GB SSD has something like 150GB of flash onboard, the extra is used as spares for any cells that get unreliable. I have had far fewer problems ('NTLDR is missing.' AARGH!!) since I switched from mechanical OS drive to SSD (Neutron GTX) about 2 years ago. They are very smart, they spread the writes around so that there aren't any blocks that get used heavily while others sit around idle. I'll never put another OS on a platter drive again ever. They're an even bigger performance improvement for a laptop as their small drives are usually the main bottleneck, AND they use less power and make less heat.
And no noise al all. The only audible noise of my desktop was the hard drive. Upgrading to SSD was the biggest performance gain I have ever experienced, and now it’s absolutely silent
Edit: I have some SD cards I could donate, but shipping it to you is not worth it…
You don’t know how much Aussies envy Amazon. It’s got everything and the shipping is great. We can get some things from there but a lot of the stuff is prohibitive because postage is $50 for a lollipop.
I might be late on this but I HIGHLY suggest getting a SDXC card over a SDHC card. Not many people know what the difference is but its huge if you are saving or creating large files.
HD cards for example a 16gb card, can only save 4gb file at the most so even though its a 16gb card you need to compress or break apart what you are saving or lower the quality so it can be under the 4gb limit
XC cards dont have a size limit thus you can create a massive 16gb file that dorsnt need to be broken down for saving. It can be the highest quality without worrying about memory limits
Also look for a class 10 card
Remember, you get what you pay for. My SDXC card for my gopro ran me $60 for a 32gb extreme pro or plus or whatever they call their 2nd highest card now and that was a STEAL! They retail for like $180 and are normally on sale for like $120. Check out b&h photo if you want deals on SD cards, they always have what seems like hidden sales and honor their prices
I have brought hundreds of them over the years for business. I found the cheapest source to be cell phone pulls sold on eBay. You can routinely get 4-8-16 gb microSD cards pulled from cell phones for $2-4$ each in lots of 10. Have yet to get a bad one.
If you are a professional shooter and cannot afford to lose what you save or routinely record large video files for clients, then spend the bux on high end Lexar or Samsung/Sandisk.
