Sunday, August 4, 2013

Micro SD Cards Failing within a year of their use

Micro SD Cards are very popular little storage that are on every  phone or media device now.  We store our precious pictures, music, documents , and all types of files.  But, can we really really really trust it?

On my current  cell phone, Samsung Galaxy Note, I had 32GB SanDisk Ultra class 10.  I bought it from Best-buy, so it is not off a XYZ on eBay somewhere in the unknown world.  This Micro SD failed within three months and I had so many pictures and other files on it, I can not really list them.  What happened I am not sure!  I tried everything to recover it or even format it and see if I can reuse it, but, sadly nothing worked with this card.

Today, I just noticed a sd card simple on my other cell phone, Samsung infuse, which had a PNY 16GB class 10 Micro SD card for a while, I think over 6 months, it also failed miserably  and I could not recover anything on it or even format it!!  Now what is going on with these SD cards?  Is it just me or is it PNY brand or what is going on?

I use these cards on a lot of my devices and specially my embedded development systems and I really hate to start distrust these things because I will become very paranoid with all my equipment!!!

Does anyone out there have any opinion or experience with these SD card in general and you want to share your experience?  please, add to this post...