Contemplating the Mortality of SD Cards

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).]

Hi Khai
If you store them correctly when not in use I think you could be old & grey before they wear out.
peter b

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
http://www.kn7000.net/Fred_Mellink
http://kn-sdexplorer.has.it

Hi! Thank you very much, Fred.

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Khai

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

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Khai