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Originally Posted by Bavarian
Once a flash card or drive is corrupted, it's not recoverable with tools and software available to the average Joe's use.
Those things die on ya all the time. Heck the other month, I popped in a new 1024MB CompactFlash card in my digicam, and it worked fine for a day or two. Then a week later, I turn on the camera, the screen blinks white, and then goes black. Camera says "disk error".
That was the end of that. I had to format it through the PC - the camera couldn't recognize it.
Flash devices still have a long way to go...  |
I have flash cards that are a few years old and they still work. I know professional photographers that have dozens of cards and they have a failure every so often. The failure rate is less than that of a HD though. If you buy cheap cards then yes, they will be more prone to failure. If you buy name brand cards, for the most part, you won’t have an issue.
There are many devices that use Flash memory and have for many years, at least a decade. Out of the thousands of devices I have worked with that have Flash memory, want to know how many failures were from the Flash memory? Three, yes three. So out of the thousands, that’s not even a tenth of 1%. I’ve had more HD failures than that and I haven’t used thousands of computers.
10-30-2005, 04:01 PM
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