Originally Posted by
Ian W
I fully agree. With terabyte SSDs consumer items there is no excuse for being this parsimonious. I would think the only excuse is that by comparison to previous recording systems the current CVR/DFDR are an improvement. However, even carrying the recordings is now becoming obsolete with recording to 'the cloud' being perfectly feasible. And had that been the case with MH370 this thread would have been considerably shorter and a lot of anguish would have been spared.
Except whatever caused the possible total communications failures on MH370 could also knock out the cloud version (c)CVR/(c)DFDR at the crucial moment.