This is something I have never heard anyone doing!

[dmanthree]

What’s risky? For people that do this, it’s not their only backup and they’re still moving the images to their computer for editing. They just aren’t deleting them from the old cards. And they’re avoiding the risk of wearing out an SD card and having it fail on them.

Not the cheapest choice, but compared to what people spend at Starbucks, it’s pretty cheap.

Risky because the cards are something you can lose? And how many cards would you have to save? Hundreds? Just seems hard to manage and very expensive. There's so many good options to safeguard the files it just seems to defeat the whole purpose of the cards.