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I'm old, I learned. I keep the cards. I have a pile of externals, all worthless. Not cheaper when you can't get to your files and I shoot RAW-just easier to keep the cards rather than transfer and HOPE the next external doesn't die and end up in the pile.The tilt guides and the way you can see your exposure change are awesomeness. The quickness of processing to the card and the fact that it takes SD instead of CF cards! I save my full cards so that is major! (yea, I know, now I'll get the "WTF? You don't reformat???" responses)....
It's okay. You're new. You'll learn. They make these things now called external hard drives. Way cheaper then new sd cards for every shoot.
And hard drives are? I've blown thru 4 CPUs, including one lost by UPS in transit, several externals, 2 zip drives and 6 printers. My cards, dating back to at least 2007, are still working. What I actually saved after initial editing is backed up on externals, but at least if they blow, I can go thru the originals (which take next to nothing in terms of storage space). I'm not even totally unconvinced my older A100 isn't losing quality after only 5 years of use. Sh*t happens, I never ever again want to lose what I lost when UPS dropped the ball 7 years ago (to which they would not admit). One hard drive that failed was under warranty, but the company (it was a Maxtor), wanted $1200 to retrieve the images. If I didn't have the cards, I'd be out that money. I told'em to shove it.You'll see that at 24MB per pictures, SD cards fill up really fast !
I use a pair of 8 GB UHS-1 cards plus a back up 16GB class 6 in case I run out of space. I do my best to only keep the good pictures, save the, on the PC and have a external drive backup. Plus another external drive for my favorites pictures stored in a different location.
Things happen. SD cards aren't immune to failure.