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10/06/2004 07:16:42 PM · #1 |
| anybody knows the life span of a CF Card?, how old is your oldest CF Card? |
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10/06/2004 07:21:28 PM · #2 |
My oldest is a 64 MB Sandisk that I picked up just after Christmas '01.
It's, actually, the only one I have.. for now. :) Still going strong.
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10/06/2004 07:31:34 PM · #3 |
I've got one I'm about to pitch. I bought it about 6 months ago and it's totally crapped out. Takes FOREVER to get photos off it and I've lost more than I can count. I kept using it since I didn't know which disc was actually the crap one [I kept mixing them up].
It's a sandisk which must just be a lemon.
P.S. I use other cards that are up to 4-5 years old
Message edited by author 2004-10-06 23:32:21. |
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10/06/2004 07:35:26 PM · #4 |
None of my CF cards have given me any trouble. I have two 256's that are from when I bought my Canon G2, almost 3 years ago and 25,000 photos ago. Of course, my Canon G2 crapped out this August, but the memory cards are going strong in my new Rebel.
I did though buy a 1GB for the Rebel because I always hate to have to stop and change the cards, and I shoot Raw, which means 30 pics per card or so on the 256's. |
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10/06/2004 07:59:19 PM · #5 |
Yeah, name-brand cards like Sandisk can last for years without problems. More generic brands use iffy flash memory that tends to cause corrupted files and other difficulties. I learned the hard way. :(
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10/06/2004 08:11:18 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by GoldBerry:
I've got one I'm about to pitch. I bought it about 6 months ago and it's totally crapped out. Takes FOREVER to get photos off it and I've lost more than I can count. I kept using it since I didn't know which disc was actually the crap one [I kept mixing them up].
It's a sandisk which must just be a lemon.
P.S. I use other cards that are up to 4-5 years old |
If the card is only 6 months old, you should be able to get a new one from Sandisk. It's certainly not normal for a card to fail that early, even in pretty severe use.
We have an industrial computer at work that some goof designed using a CF card as the boot drive, LOL. The cards are written to so often that they crap out after about a year. You can imagine how may write cycles they go through. I'm sure you haven't written to your card even one tenth a smany time as necessary to cause failure. I think it takes at least 100,000 writes, in the same location, to cause failure with moder flash memory (at least the high-quality memory used by makers like Sandisk. |
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10/06/2004 08:26:02 PM · #7 |
| I bought one and it said 10 year guerantee... |
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10/07/2004 12:31:55 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by kirbic:
I think it takes at least 100,000 writes, in the same location, to cause failure with moder flash memory (at least the high-quality memory used by makers like Sandisk. |
I've read a similar stat about 100,000 writes per cell. I belive cards generally come with more cells than they need, so they can be swapped out to improve lifetime. |
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10/07/2004 05:14:15 AM · #9 |
Originally posted by Artyste:
My oldest is a 64 MB Sandisk that I picked up just after Christmas '01.
It's, actually, the only one I have.. for now. :) Still going strong. |
oh man! 64 meg on that s7000? how many shots do you get on the card, like 10?
there are some good deals on the sandisk cards right now. i hear you can get a 1gig for around 100 bux online.
my oldest CF is a sandisk 512, but it's only about 14 months old. it's still a baby :)
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