How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?

How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?

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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?


The questions presumes the images were good in the first place, so if an
image is bad, one could always say my card ate the best part of it.

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jer
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:31:01 -0500, "
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?

Life of the photos is directly proportional to the "cheese" factor.
More cheese = earlier death.

Seems fair.

Len

On Tue, 15 May 2007 06:27:06 GMT, Len Bryan
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On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:31:01 -0500, "
wrote:

How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?

Life of the photos is directly proportional to the "cheese" factor.
More cheese = earlier death.

You have to be careful extending the life though. Try too
hard and you get an "Out of Cheese" error and you're
stuffed.

--
John Bean

I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data.

Toby
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?

Toby wrote:
I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data.

Toby
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?


thanks. so if i go on a 2 week vacation. I would not have worry
about my photos going bad.

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Toby wrote:
I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data.

Toby
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?


thanks. so if i go on a 2 week vacation. I would not have worry
about my photos going bad.

All electronic devices can fail at any time.
There is very little chance it will happen during your two week vacation but
it could happen.
If the shots are really important you need to copy them to at least one
other place ASAP.
Some cameras support copying between cards if you have nothing else.

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Toby wrote:
I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data.

Toby
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?


thanks. so if i go on a 2 week vacation. I would not have worry
about my photos going bad.

All electronic devices can fail at any time.
There is very little chance it will happen during your two week vacation
but it could happen.
If the shots are really important you need to copy them to at least one
other place ASAP.
Some cameras support copying between cards if you have nothing else.

Find somewhere which will copy from the card and burn to CD. Best
alternative is to buy one of them portable storage drives.
I have had stuff on cards for over a year with no problem - but I did buy a
proper card storage wallet to protect against shock and static.

Graham

"dennis@home"
Some cameras support copying between cards if you have nothing else.

That's interesting. Which ones? It could be very convenient.

Just D.

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"dennis@home"
Some cameras support copying between cards if you have nothing else.

That's interesting. Which ones? It could be very convenient.

My Olympus E500 can copy between the XD cards and the CF cards.
My Pentax Optio WP can copy between internal memory (only 12 Mbytes though)
and the SD cards.
What would be nice is a camera that can read/write USB memory sticks. It
should be easy as many can drive USB printers.