Card failure

[Rico]

I see a lot of talk (especially around wedding forums) about using multiple small cards/dual cards and backing up the wedding photos ASAP to multiple locations.

I appreciate that these photos are once in a lifetime and you can never be too careful but as I've only been around a DSLR for 4 months and have had no problem with my 2 cards I was wondering how often people have had card failures?
Also, what types of failures were they ie corrupted card or physical damage?

 

[ChrisH]

I've got loads of cards and never had a problem except with en eyefi sd card. I think that ones just too slow for burst shots on my 1d3.

I think a lot is just down to the luck go the draw

 

[Chris Y]

Had a card go t*ts up after a studio shoot. 160 images gone according to the card.

Would not read in camera and when plugged into machine requested format.

Used CardResue and it recovered 700+tifs...

Well worth the £30!!!

Binned the card thereafter!

 

[TCR4x4]

Been using a DSLR's, compacts, and camcorders for 12+ years, and thankfully never had a single failure.

 

[MrRiley]

Unfortunately they do go wrong. I have been using memory cards for 14 years. I have had a small number of cards go wrong with no way of retrieving the images regardless of cost. The lost images have hurt hurt hurt.

Occasionally, I have had a card go wrong and been able to retrieve the images with recovery software.

Dual cards are cool and the gang but seem to present their own problems.

I believe it is a mistake to shoot a huge assignment on one single card.

Good luck with everything

Roy

www.royriley.co.uk

 

[hunnymonster]

Since I got my first digital device that took a removable memory card I've had 3 cards go crappy on me

1 MMC card - cracked in half
1 CF card - it just went unreadable - nothing would encourage it back to life - luckily it was used for music on hold on a PABX, so nothing important
1 MicroSD card - that I dropped and the dog scoffed. So not so much a card failure as an operator failure and lack of desire to find it...

 

[specialman]

I've never had a card fail on me other than through damage caused by a bent pin in a CF card reader - did two cards last week like this and did two cards last year the same way. Not the fault of the card, more a fault of the design of card readers and the tolerances in the plastic running rails when you put the card in the slot.

A few of the guys at work have had failures while in use, both on older Canon 30Ds. Probably just a coincidence about camera model and more down to cards that have probably seen too much use. Mind you, one guy got some Duracell cards from 7DS and two failed straight from the packaging.