Card Back up help

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fhibbs12

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Well I had a scare..... 32 gig card nearly full.... Went to xfer to my computer.... Had card errors .... You could have thought someone stole my dogs, I was furious.... Luckily just a scare lol....

Now it prompted me to get some cards and finally utilize the 2cd slot and was just wondering if this scenario made sense.

I had a 32g sandisk extreme pro in slot one.

I was thinking about buying 4 8g sandisk extreme pros. I would put the 32 g in slot 2 and the 8g's in slot 1. Putting slot 2 as backup. Essentially, when out shooting all day I could cycle between the 8g cards and leave the 32 in as a full day backup.

Does that make sense and would it work before I buy 4 8g cards instead of 1 32g card?

At 25 bucks a pop I am not in the mood to waste money :-D
 
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Horoscope Fish

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fhibbs12 said:
I was thinking about buying 4 8g sandisk extreme pros. I would put the 32 g in slot 2 and the 8g's in slot 1. Putting slot 2 as backup. Essentially, when out shooting all day I could cycle between the 8g cards and leave the 32 in as a full day backup.
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I don't see why it wouldn't work as described, but...

It could be pointed out by circulating four, 8GB cards, you multiply the chance of experiencing a card failure by 4... Yes, you could argue you're balancing that out against putting all your photographic "eggs" in one proverbial basket, but the better solution, I think, would be using Slot 2 as your "backup". I use a pair of 32GB cards and call it good.
 
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fhibbs12

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Thank You 2!

I was thinking in terms of splitting cards for different shots before loading them onto the computers. From an organizational standpoint. Sports/Personal/Business and so on.

But 2 32 cards and be done with it seems more logical.

Thanks!
 
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nickt

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I see your are leaning towards two 32gb, sounds better. For me I'd worry about keeping track of the three 8gb cards that were not in the camera. I'd worry about losing them and mixing empty with full. Also if you forget to empty your slot 2 backup, when its full, I believe all shooting would stop even though there was room on the 8 gig in slot 1.
 
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aroy

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Use 2 32GB cards in backup mode. If you can get 4 cards so that you are not left in a lurch when the cards fill up. The maximum size is 29.2MB for 14 bit loss less compression, say 30MB. That means you have a capacity of 1090 images in a 32GB card. In case you do not shoot so many each session, you may think of getting smaller capacity to save money.

Ensure that the cards in both the slots have the same speed, else the camera will use the lower speed card's parameter for data transfers.
 
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