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Why don't DSLR's have SSD in them rather than memory cards?


9 years 7 months ago #401680 by Ted Helm
Here's another topic my photography club had some fun with.  Cameras having mini solid state hard drives in them.  These days you can get large size of data on smaller physical sized SSD hard drives.  Seems like it would be helpful.  Imagine having 100GB internal drive with the option of a slotted memory card.  I think that would give more flexibility in the long haul.  

Care to leave your opinion on this?  
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9 years 7 months ago #401699 by Shadowfixer1
What do you think a memory card is? They are removable SSD's. 
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9 years 7 months ago #401708 by ThatNikonGuy
:agree:    you beat me to that one
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9 years 7 months ago #401730 by garyrhook
Yes, they are removable SSDs. Perhaps with lesser performance, but SSDs nonetheless. The camera only requires a certain performance level; trying to make the camera cpu more powerful means using more juice, which means the batter doesn't last as long. There are trade-offs in everything.

Also, one has to get the images off of the camera and onto something else. This has been discussed here before: most seem to remove the card, rather than use a cable to hook up to a computer. I know I'd rather have several cards, easily replaced, than a single SSD that, should it fail, would make the camera wholly unusable. Unless the camera also had a card slot.But then, what's the point?
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9 years 7 months ago #401812 by ShutterPal
Think of the additional weight that an actual hard drive would add.  Small or not, there would be additional weight added.  
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9 years 7 months ago #401925 by garyrhook

ShutterPal wrote: Think of the additional weight that an actual hard drive would add.  Small or not, there would be additional weight added.  


Um, have you picked up an SSD? Even with their cases they hardly weigh anything. Their guts, as stated, are they same thing as memory cards. Weight is really not the issue here.
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9 years 7 months ago #401933 by Joves
I would hate to see it as the manufacturers would have all of the functions on the drive. And as Gary pointed out if it died so would your camera. The cameras base functions already operate off of chips that store the Firmware, which essentially makes them a mini-drive system, but not really an SSD. Really cards are cheap anymore, so if it is not broke, don't fix it.
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9 years 7 months ago #402011 by Ted Helm
Do they actually consider memory cards as the same thing as SSD hard drives?  I understand there are no moving parts, I thought they were in different categories? 
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9 years 7 months ago #402016 by garyrhook

Ted Helm wrote: Do they actually consider memory cards as the same thing as SSD hard drives?  I understand there are no moving parts, I thought they were in different categories? 


The are both based on flash memory. Therefore, fundamentally the same thing.

Their use dictates different design parameters, but underneath it all it's all the same.
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9 years 7 months ago #402195 by Stealthy Ninja

Ted Helm wrote: Imagine having 100GB internal drive with the option of a slotted memory card.   


Or... how about: 
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