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I generally treat SD cards as memory that will almost certainly fail at some point. Once you accept that, they are more easy to deal with. If you want reliable

by bArray 1y ago

I generally treat SD cards as memory that will almost certainly fail at some point. Once you accept that, they are more easy to deal with. If you want reliable memory, get somewhere external to store it. I had a HGST spinning disk in my laptop from prior to the WD acquisition, and it failed perfectly. It dealt with errors all of the time and never lost data, but most importantly was that when it finally kicked the bucket, it became read only and I was able to recover all data without issue.

reginald78 1y ago
As a counterpoint, I'm RMAing a Seagate HDD that I used for biweekly backups at the moment. It completed half of the backup as usual, there was a failure in the logs where it dropped out and now it constantly errors and clicks on startup and cannot be reformatted. Spontaneous failure with no data available, although I did neglect to try the freezer trick since it was a backup drive. SD cards are probably one of the less reliable mediums but I think I'd take two copies of important data on two SD cards over one on a hard drive if I was really worried about losing the data. Wouldn't be my first choice though!
bigbuppo 1y ago
I have cameras that take SD cards and settled on two tracks for SD cards. First are the daily shitkickers which I use for random photos. These cards are either in the camera or in one of the SD card readers. They cycle out every other time, once or twice a month. The second track are "project cards" that are used for one single project and then set aside once the files are pulled off the card. I don't shoot video, and these are used with relatively slow Pentax 645Zs, so I can get away with using the lower-rated cards as the camera is going to take about 7 seconds to write a single shot to the flash no matter the speed of the card. I buy 32GB cards in bulk.

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I generally treat SD cards as memory that will almost certainly fail at some point. Once you accept that, they are more easy to deal with. If you want reliable

by bArray 1y ago

reginald78 1y ago
As a counterpoint, I'm RMAing a Seagate HDD that I used for biweekly backups at the moment. It completed half of the backup as usual, there was a failure in the logs where it dropped out and now it constantly errors and clicks on startup and cannot be reformatted. Spontaneous failure with no data available, although I did neglect to try the freezer trick since it was a backup drive. SD cards are probably one of the less reliable mediums but I think I'd take two copies of important data on two SD cards over one on a hard drive if I was really worried about losing the data. Wouldn't be my first choice though!
bigbuppo 1y ago
I have cameras that take SD cards and settled on two tracks for SD cards. First are the daily shitkickers which I use for random photos. These cards are either in the camera or in one of the SD card readers. They cycle out every other time, once or twice a month. The second track are "project cards" that are used for one single project and then set aside once the files are pulled off the card. I don't shoot video, and these are used with relatively slow Pentax 645Zs, so I can get away with using the lower-rated cards as the camera is going to take about 7 seconds to write a single shot to the flash no matter the speed of the card. I buy 32GB cards in bulk.