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SD cards finally expected to hit 4TB in 2025 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm using a 128GB phone and it's never full. But I export photos And videos off it once every 6 months. If I didn't I'd need 1TB phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Once every 6 months?

So at any one time you could lose 6 months of photos?

Or do you have a regular sync to somewhere, and this is just space freeing?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm not deleting them. They're uploaded to the cloud at the time of creation. I also move them off my phone to my computer every 6 months or so - I do this just in case the upload to the cloud has ever silently failed. I deduplicate the images, so I don't have multiple versions of the same image with different file names.

For me it's not entirely about space. I rarely let the device get more than 2/3rds full. It's also about speed. If I want to pull a photo/video off my phone, it seems sluggish when there are thousandths of files in that one directory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Ah, yea, I see. Makes sense. Minimizes your risk while also minimizing your effort to manage them.

Yea, I don't mind having photos on my phone, but managing them is far easier on a pc. So like you, mine all sync to my PC instantly, then when I feel like it I spend some time there cleaning them up (and the changes sync back).

Since the PC has Crashplan for backup, and a NAS it syncs too, I feel pretty comfortable my stuff is safe.