any media can fail--flash or hard drive. So, your original 16x savings is probably closer to right.
Sure they can, nothing is failure-proof. The simple fact of the matter is, hard drives are the #1 component in computers that fail the most. When compared to solid state media, the SSD method is 3 & a half times less likely to fail than a regular HDD.
So, no. Your statement of 16x savings is nowhere close to being accurate. Because trusting years of your archived footage to a single HDD is foolish & you're just asking for a total loss.
And a corrupted SD card isnt the same as a mechanical HDD failure. The data is still quite recoverable with software on an SD. The problem usually lies in how the card was formatted in the camera or read by the computer. A corruption isn't a failure because the data is still very much there & easy to get to.
Besides, even if it weren't, what would you rather have happen. A single SD card fail & lose just an hour of footage or your entire HDD backup fail & lose everything you've ever shot??
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So, no. Your statement of 16x savings is nowhere close to being accurate. Because trusting years of your archived footage to a single HDD is foolish & you're just asking for a total loss.
And a corrupted SD card isnt the same as a mechanical HDD failure. The data is still quite recoverable with software on an SD. The problem usually lies in how the card was formatted in the camera or read by the computer. A corruption isn't a failure because the data is still very much there & easy to get to.
Besides, even if it weren't, what would you rather have happen. A single SD card fail & lose just an hour of footage or your entire HDD backup fail & lose everything you've ever shot??
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