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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
On Mon, 14 May 2007 21:31:01 -0500, "
wrote: How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad? There's a "USE BY:" date encoded on all flash RAM cards (and USB drives, too). To see this information, you must use muriatic acid (can get it at pool supply stores) and soak the card/drive in the acid for two days. The info will then be visible; it will appear as bright red printing. -- THIS IS A SIG LINE; NOT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY! Pete Rose began doing radio commercials Friday as the spokesman for a national tax debt relief firm. This was inevitable. Now that baseball is cracking down on beer and drugs and steroids, gambling addicts are the sport's most credible spokesmen. |
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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 wrote in message t... 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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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
wrote in message et... Toby wrote: I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data. Toby wrote in message t... 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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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
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et... Toby wrote: I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data. Toby wrote in message t... 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. Absolutely - I would not hesitate to count on a card for that length of time. These cards are specced to hold data for 10 years or more. This actually a good question. The data does not last forever. Flash memory stores its data as electrical charges. There is a finite, though very small, leakage rate. -- Mike Russell www.curvemeister.com/forum/ |
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
"dennis@home" wrote in message ... wrote in message et... Toby wrote: I have heard talk about 10 years for flash memory to retain data. Toby wrote in message t... 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 |
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
"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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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
Ron Hunter wrote:
lid wrote: wrote: How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad? I think the SD-card spec says 10 years iirc. Not that anyone should try the roulette game.. I suspect the longetivity of the 10000'th write isn't the same as for the 10'th one. No bias in to either one. Since the cards haven't been out long enough for meaningful empirical data, it is just a guess, anyway. Well, it could be an educated estimate, which is remarkably much better than a guess. |
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How long will photos stay on a sd card before going bad?
"Just D" wrote in message ... "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. |
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