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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Is SanDisk sd cards becoming corrupt common? What kinds of things will cause it even when used regularly? (alien.top)

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Is SanDisk sd cards becoming corrupt common? What kinds of things will cause it even when used regularly?

Had years of pictures deleted today even though it didn't touch water or it was never dropped and all it did was stay in the camera now it says card unusable until formatted

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I got my dashcams, which is the hardest duty for SD card. Constant writing and massive temperature swings. I used 32gb cheap cards, they failed within a month. I replaced them with name brand cards, again, all 3 cameras failed within another 2 months. I've also had SD cards fails multiple times with my RPi. The only solution was to buy the High Endurance SANDisk cards. I'm 8 months in and they are still going. But I expect them to fail soon enough. SD cards shouldn't be used for reliable storage, period.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The cameras failed as well, not just the cards?