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#45411 - 01/19/05 08:36 AM Contemplating the Mortality of SD Cards
Khai Offline
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Hi members!

Do SD cards have a definite or measurable lifespan?

Do certain operations such as formatting or writing data to an SD card "take more years" off the card than reading data from the card?

Will certain memory locations in the SD card age faster or become ineffective first because they are accessed far more often, like the file allocation table (FAT) of a disk storage device?

Will any part(s) of an SD card corrode with the passing of time?

[This message has been edited by Khai (edited 01-19-2005).]
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#45412 - 01/20/05 06:13 AM Re: Contemplating the Mortality of SD Cards
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Hi Khai
If you store them correctly when not in use I think you could be old & grey before they wear out.
peter b
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Originally posted by Khai:
Hi members!

Do SD cards have a definite or measurable lifespan?

Do certain operations such as formatting or writing data to an SD card "take more years" off the card than reading data from the card?

Will certain memory locations in the SD card age faster or become ineffective first because they are accessed far more often, like the file allocation table (FAT) of a disk storage device?

Will any part(s) of an SD card corrode with the passing of time?

[This message has been edited by Khai (edited 01-19-2005).]

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#45413 - 01/21/05 01:49 PM Re: Contemplating the Mortality of SD Cards
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Hello,

I know that Sandisk give 5 years guarantee easily, so I thinkthe SD- and CF- card and otehr solid state cards will last very long. It is solid state, so no magnetic head flying over it, no moving parts.

Regards, Fred
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#45414 - 01/21/05 02:19 PM Re: Contemplating the Mortality of SD Cards
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Hi! Thank you very much, Fred.

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#45415 - 01/21/05 02:23 PM Re: Contemplating the Mortality of SD Cards
Khai Offline
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Originally posted by peter.bentley@talk21.com:
Hi Khai
If you store them correctly when not in use I think you could be old & grey before they wear out.
peter b


How increasingly true, Peter, of the durability of silicon-based "artificial life" over that of carbon-based lifeform!

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