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How does a memory card die?

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20262113 views
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Our old SanDisk CompactFlash 256MB card died recently, during a photo session. My wife was taking photos with it - sometimes in humid environment -, then as she was browsing through the results on her laptop via a card reader, all of a sudden the next picture just came out a small rectangle in the …

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Memory Cards (or SSDs) have something called "write endurance" which limits the number of times you can write to them. A search for this term or "write limit" will bring up a lot of pages which will give you a lot more detail, but basically: The num…

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