CF card failures

[John Thawley]

Just out of curiosity, I'm interested to find out how many people have ever had memory card failures?

JT

[Jim Sykes]

I refuse to answer that question since I'm sure that once i say I havent I will be jinxing myself. :D
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DOH!!!

[John Thawley]

That's why it anonymous. :( But now you've revealed yourself.....

[Shane Parker]

I have had one card fail... I've owned over 20 in the last 5-6 years.

[Mike Ditz]

I have had a couple become corrupt and unreadable. And my dog turned one into a chew toy. I also was usiing the same cards with Nikon, Canon and Olympus cameras interchangably

[John Thawley]

I found one on my lawn... and put one through the wash. No problem.

[Dennis Murray]

I've had family have problems with various brands and point and shoot cameras.

[Andrew Sproull]

do microdrives count in this thread, cause i made the mistake of getting one of those :(

[John Thawley]

do microdrives count in this thread, cause i made the mistake of getting one of those :(

No... they have moving parts and are destined for failure. As durable as they are, it's not a matter of if... it's a matter of when. :)

JT

[Todd Corzett]

Never with any of my CF cards. My mother had a reoccurring issue with one SD card, but I once I did a low-level reformat on the computer it wasn't an issue.

-Todd...

[Erik Anderson]

No failure of CF cards (knock on wood), but I've discovered that al three of my batteries (two Nikons and one off brand are now flagging. I'm getting 30-50% of the life out of them that I was. The onset was very sudden, and I'm still looking for a possible cause.

[John Thawley]

90 views and 16 votes? Are we click challenged here? Maybe there are some committment issues among automotive photographers?

Stats people... we need stats. Get out the vote.

JT

[Jeff Wilson]

FWIW, the other day I left a Sandisk ultra II in my jeans when I washed them. The card still works perfectly.

[Drew Phillips]

I had a Lexar 2gb card go bad (unreadable). Lexar sent me a free replacement within a week,

[Steve Alvine]

I voted!!! No problems yet;) ;) ;)

[Zerin Dube]

Well, I had a Lexar 2 gig go bad on me today, here at Petit. All my ALMS morning practice shots, and half the Speed Touring race shots are gone :( Last time I buy a Lexar card, as my Sandisk 1 gig cards have never given me trouble at all.

[Mike Ditz]

A while ago there was an issue with Lexar cards and Canon cameras not getting along. Have you tried any of the recovery programs?

[Todd Spoth]

hey Z image rescue from lexar has saved me after accidentily formatting.

[John Jackson]

I had a one g xtreme card fail today.It worked when I shot a feature with it two weeks ago,and now you stick it in the Nikon,and it reads e.If I stick it in my girls canon it says card not readible,and if I stick it in the card reader it reads it just fine lol.

[Mike Hoyer]

Never had a failure. Although I've got one sitting in my desk that has never working, but it's only a 64mb or something anyway.

I had a Microdrive die at the Silverstone FIA-GT. Luckily I managed to recover most of the stuff, although it was a long, frustrating process.

[David Moore]

When I first got my old 300D I had a card fail on me. It sucked cuz I was at the Vintage Races at Laguna Seca.

[Curtis Barnard]

a 32MB for an older nikon P&S failed about4 or 5 years ago. now i have some sandisk and they are doing fine.

BTW, first post. Hello all!

[Greg Mitchell]

I had a lexar card fail, it went down big time none of the recovery programs would find a thing on it but then that is a good reason to buy name brand cards. Warranty lexar replaced the card but even they could not get anything off the card. good thing it was just some fun stuff and not critical.:mad:

[Daniel Buck]

I haven't had any failures, however there was a card (Sandisk extreme 3) that was formatted, then shot on again. Later to find out that the person who gave me the card back (before I formatted it!) had NOT saved any of the images off the card before they gave it to me!

With luck, the recovery software got back all of their files! I think this was only possible because I had only shot about 30 images on the card after I reformatted it, so they got all of their 2.5 gigs worth of images back from never-never land. I was quite happy with that, didn't think it would work because I had already started using the card again after formatting!

[Ben Crabtree]

i have had card failures.
one Lexar 256mb card (first card i bought with my eos 350d - it failed just after i bought my second card)
and i had 2x 256mb DSE SD cards die too - DSE is an australian store "Dick Smith Electronics" and DSE is their house brand
the lexar was replaced by the camera shop where i bought it
the DSE cards were just binned

[Rob Bye]

It turns out that Lexar Professional UDMA cards don't like extreme cold temperatures (-25C). SanDisk and RiData cards don't mind the cold though. Always carry spares.:cool:

Rob Bye
RobByePhoto.com

[Daniel Peace]

I had a rather new Ridata 16gig 233x card go bad on me. Ridata replaced it immediately. It seems the card didn't care for me using it in the 10d and then switching it into the 20d's . I don't use the 16gig cards in the 10D any more, they don't format in the camera well.

[John Thawley]

Put a 2GB Ultra Extreme through the laundry last week.... no problem... images were "clean" and had less noise. LOL - Seriously, though... the card worked like a charm.

JT

[Chris Kelly]

No failures, but I do have 2 cards that have slowed down their write speeds tremendously. Maybe I never noticed before, but two are super slow now.

[Mike Ditz]

In the last few years I have had no card failure (knock on wood). I think it is a combination of more robust card and camera software/hardware and me learning what not to do.
There is something to be said about having no-name brand 8g or 16g cards perform flawlessly but my old 512 Lexars were hit or miss until my dog used them as chew toy.:)

Chris-have you tried mulitple reformating, sometimes that helps. Or reformatting/erasing on a computer rather than in a camera.

[Tom Hitzeman]

2 years, 12 cards, ~125,000 shots, no failures. Mine are all 2 & 4 MB Sandisk Ultra II and a couple Ultra III.

[Ben Crabtree]

i have had card failures.
one Lexar 256mb card (first card i bought with my eos 350d - it failed just after i bought my second card)
and i had 2x 256mb DSE SD cards die too - DSE is an australian store "Dick Smith Electronics" and DSE is their house brand
the lexar was replaced by the camera shop where i bought it
the DSE cards were just binned

Update - i have had a 2 year old sandisk Ultra2 2gb fail
it worked fine in my 1dmk2n, was formatted fine, put it in my 40d, came up with "Card Error"
tried formatting it, - no luck, tried the 1d, no luck, tried both a mac and a PC, neither would see it, emailed sandisk, they asked me to email them pics of it, and have now asked me to send it back to be replaced.

[David Adolphus]

I have a 32GB Kingston Elite Pro in front of me that died this weekend, mid-shoot. Waiting on an RMA. I'll stick with San Disk from here on out--I have two 2GB cards from 2005 still going strong.

[Brian Murphy]

I had a San Disk card die. I could not write to it, could not format it, even in mulitple bodies or using my pc. I wasn't that bummed as I had got it for next to nothing and thankfully (!!!) no images were lost!!