Re: [gear] flash card prices decline

["Aaron Ximm" aaron_gmail]

On 9/10/06, oryoki2000 <> wrote:
> The meltdown in flash memory card prices continues.  This is good news
> for field recordists using digital recording gear.
>
> Today, the cost of a standard 1GB flash memory card is a little less
> than $20 (all prices USD, taxes and shipping extra). That's impressive
> when you recall that a 1GB card cost $700 when introduced in 2002, and
> $350 in 2004.

For me the magic number is around 1/10 to 1/4 of where we are now.

$5/GB will make these cards an affordable "archival" medium like HiMD
disks (which are $5/GB today). I'd rather have it $2/GB of course,
which is on par with traditional MD.

Once we hit those prices I will use them like I use MD -- record once,
write protect, archive!  And they're even nicely smaller. :)

 best,
 aaron

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