[georgemcbay]

"SD cards are fragile"

Are they, though? Because I use SD cards for photography and have for quite a few years and I take them not only to yards and beaches, but mountain peaks, spelunking in mud caves out in the desert, etc, and I have never had an SD card break on me either physically or in terms of data loss.

To be fair, though, for photos only (no video) even with high-res uncompressed RAW photos I can't imagine anyone practically needing SD cards anywhere near the 512 GB size. That's a lot of photos...

YMMV, I guess, maybe I'm totally lucky, but I have yet to personally have an incident which makes me worry about the robustness of decent quality SD cards.