That's for CF cards, right? Shel "You meet the nicest people with a Pentax"
> [Original Message] > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 12/2/2005 12:22:19 PM > Subject: Re: Why I Haven't Yet Switched > > > Like I said - 2GB is still expensive. > The sweet spot at present is the 1GB cards, which are just > beginning to drop below the $50 price point. > > > On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 11:10:09AM -0800, Jack Davis wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________ > > > > Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. > > > > Just $16.99/mo. or less. > > > > dsl.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Start your day with Yahoo! - Make it your home page! > > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
