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Fast/slow card as primary/backup

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Alphawolf78

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Hi.

I was wondering something that, honestly, I haven't test it yet. I couldn't find anything related to it on the internet, so I decided to ask this community.

Does anybody know if there is a difference wheter I use a faster card as a primary card and a slower one as a backup or the reverse, that is, the slower as primary and the faster as backup (on a "two-cards" camera)?

I'm curious about it.

Thanks.

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Welcome to the forums.

 

I believe that the read/write speed of any dual card configuration is governed by the slowest card. So, if you use a fast card in slot one and a slow card as backup in slot two the camera will read and write at the speed of the slower card. But, I rarely use two cards so I could be in error. Perhaps one of the others who has more experience with this will jump in. 

 

--Ron



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I have a two card camera, 750, and use the same speed card in both slots for the sake of simplicity. Haven't tried a faster/slower combination.



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It will slow down to the slower card's speed, unless you save in raw + jpeg with the smaller file going to the slower card.



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In any case, you want to get the fastest cards your camera
can handle so to empty the buffer as quickly as possible. :P







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