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Old July 16th 16, 08:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Micky
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Default Looking for WindowsXP KB955704 (now "big" SD cards)

[Default] On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 09:42:34 +0100, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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In message , Micky
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Apparently mpeg-4 Part10 1280x720 is equal 3 mbps so I'll be able to
shoot video for 48 hours. But who's going to watch it.

(-:

But SD cards are so cheap now, as low as 8 dollars for 32, and 18 for
64GB.

Yes, USB and SD here have been below 25p/G for a while, at least for
USB2 (most larger ones are USB3 anyway now), so I'm not surprised
they're under 25c/G there. Watch for speed though - probably OK for
stills, but not necessarily for video - or were the prices you are
quoting for higher-speed cards too?


Yes, class 10. In another ng, someone warned me about that, but
thanks for the warning.

Hey, this means I can get the big one for the slot in the netbook. I'd
been thinking so much about the camera, I forgot about that.


Do you mean to extend the memory? Some years ago, I heard that (they
were talking about USB sticks rather than cards, but I suspect the same
may apply) that they could die in as little as a few hours if used to
give more memory, because of the repeated reading and writing; however,


Thanks. I'll make a point not to do that. I don't know what I had
in mind, considering I've only used 60 of the 160 gigs on the hdd.***
if you mean just for data storage, that's probably OK (though I still
feel uncertain about using card or stick rather than HD for long-term
storage, because of the suddenness of its usual failure modes).


So cards and sticks both fail suddenly in the same way? On the last
trip, I only used a flashdrive twice, for taking things to a place
that had computers to rent, so that the guy could print out a lettter,
which I wanted to mail rather than email. That was certainly easier
with a flash drive than with an SD card, so maybe I have no use for a
card after all. "Why do you climb mountains? Because they're
there." Why do I want a card in the card slot? Because it's there.

OTOH the camera and the phone are designed entirely around an SD card.


***(Come to think of it, I've only used 60 of the 75 gigs** on this
computer, where I do 10 or 100 times as much. I wonder why they're
both 60 gigs. Only 75 total HDD storage on the desktop because it
was a friend's business computer, where his staff was probably only
supposed to run a word processor and the proprietary software he uses
to run his security alarm business****, so they sell "business" models
which don't have much storage or much ram. He has three work stations
and also a server I think)

**That's why I'm trying to move to a bigger computer, before the HDD
fills up more.

****When a customer had alarm problems, like he couldn't set the
alarm, my friend used to have to go out there, maybe 20 or more miles,
maybe late at n ight. Now he just phones into the alarm board in the
customer's location and if a door switch won't close, he disables the
switch without leaving his chair, at his office or at home.
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