That's accurate, although if not doing ProRes, the 1TB size will support most outings. Agree, if using SD Card I swap with each battery change. The speed to extract from 1TB for SD Card equivalent: 32-128GB is impressively fast. At this stage, I trust an NVMe SSD more than a microSD card so I haven't extracted until mission complete.
Crash Refresh & Support:
Multiple discussions on Forum for the various ways to protect... and if an unrecoverable feature is important, that does have an added cost and reduces your coverage options. On DJI 2 yr plan the
M3 Cine non-recoverable fee is $450 more than
M3... after initial plans purchased.
My option for
M3 Cine was $0. I purchased via BeatBuy and inherented their Protection Plan that I purchased with other products... so my cost to replace either
M3 Model up to 2 per year for 2 yrs is only $99 each (4 total) Much more reasonable than DJI (recoverable) cost but you do have to return at least part of original craft.
DJI
M3 Cine 2yr plan is a whopping $600, w 3 replacements at $240, $300, and $350 for Recoverable, and NonRecoverable $1190 (isn’t clear may only be a 1 time loss).
DJI
M3 2 yr plan is $400 w 3 replacements at $160, $200, $230 and NonRecoverable $740.
Humorously, at present if I was to "loose" the
M3 Cine... I'd wait to replace with the
M3-S Cine. Replacement would be a low cost upgrade option compared to new kit.