On Thursday, 22 December 2016 12:34:36 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> > Has anyone else noticed that these have increased in price
> > significantly in the last few months? The 8GB ones that I bought
> > 2/£3.00 in the spring now seem to be about £4 each.
>
> The ones I buy occasionally have dropped in price so I've been going up
> in size. I tend to work out the GB/£ on each size and pick from the top
> two, e.g. http://amzn.to/2hYx8t4 is 64 GB for £17.89.
>
> I think the smaller ones can get more expensive as demand drops, just as
> happened with 5¼ floppies. Presumably, you only need 8GB or similar
> because it's for a Pi?
You can use any size you like for a Pi, as long as it's at least 4 GB
(probably 8 GB for the latest version of Raspbian). When you copy the image
to the card, it will take up approx 4 GB, but then you can expand it to fill
the card (Raspbian has a tool for this), or create another partition for your
data, which can be mounted at run-time.
The last lot I bought for the WMT were about £4, but when I bought them in
January, they were £3 each.
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