Apparently. I switched to 2GB CF cards some months back, when the price dropped below the $100 mark for a brand name I knew. SD isn't quite there yet for the 2GB cards, but 1GB is below $50.
This was a forward-looking cost estimate, so I assumed a price a little below what it is today - a year from now I confidently expect the cost per GB to have dropped well below that figure, so the average cost over a year will be close to that $75/2GB. On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:31:57AM -0800, Jack Davis wrote: > Two GB Flash card for only $75? I've been out of touch for awhile. > > Jack > > --- John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 09:02:57AM -0800, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > > > > > Assuming that you fill one card per week and that the cost of the > > cards is > > > $75.00 each, storing the photos on the cards is $3750.00 annual > > expense. > > > > Hmm. That's rather more than most people will do. $75 buys, what, 2GB > > of > > flash memory nowadays? That's something like 100GB (10,000 raw > > images) > > of storage per year. An extra 100GB of hard drive storage costs > > around > > two orders of magnitude less than that $3750 figure. For offline > > backup > > that's roughly the capacity of 25 DVDs, which is even cheaper. > > > > Flash memory is about the most expensive way you can think of to buy > > storage today, and I don't see that changing. > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > dsl.yahoo.com
