inTempus
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There's no such thing as a "controlled loss", there's just loss in my view. I rarely fill a 8gig card on a shoot. Unless you shoot a camera with dual card slots (and mirror your images to both cards) and if you have a card failure, you're losing everything... that is unless you shoot 30 images to a card, swap and shoot 30 more, then swap again. I doubt many people do that. Even if you did and you lost a card, you've still lost 1/2 or 1/3 of your images depending on the number of cards you shot to. Whos to say the keeper wasn't on the card that failed?How many cards have you had fail on you? I've never had a CF card fail on me in my cameras. I've never had an SD card fail on me in I don't know how many years of using them for things other than photography.
I've seen cards lost and damaged... but I've never had one just stop working and lose data.
I have, doesn't happen often compared to hard drives but it does happen. Everything will fail at some point in time. The question is, do you want to take the risk that if a failure happens you want to have a catastrophic loss or a controlled one.
If you're a wedding photog you better shoot a dual card camera or have a second shooter.
I use 8gig cards because they match the storage capacity of my DVD's.