Just one example: Sandisk 2GB from $147 - $220. (B&H)
Jack
--- John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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