Nonsense. Absolute nonsense.

A REMOVABLE memory card, regardless of format, is designed to be inserted, removed and reinserted as part of its design parameters. The MTBF for removable memory is 100,000 read/write cycles which is the limit of the memory chips, not the physical case. Realistically, unless there is a 5 year life cycle on removable memory with HARD use, military or industrial operations. Not the relatively benign environment you find in a camera.

As for storage conditions, you shouldn't store them in mud, water, lava or other harmful conditions. You probably also shouldn't put them on railways and let trains drive over them. Close proximity to a neutron star may, and this hasn't been proved, warp the casing and cause misalignment of the pins needed to make contact in a card reader. Apart from that, not paying particular attention where I store my cards I haven't had any adverse effects so far. In practice I'd think whatever doesn't physically damage the card won't harm the data on it.

And, Mr User ID (original name), you have made an auspicious arrival here on UHH. You have nowhere to go but up with your posts.

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Joe Blow wrote, in another thread:

"NOTE: The major cause of SD card failure is removing them
from the camera and putting them in a computer or card reader.
That causes wear on the contacts and may result in failure. It is
safer to use a USB cable to d/l the files. The bonus is most
cameras won't allow an outside source to write to the card ..... "

Hope Joe B is reading this. He prompts this question, or idea:

Wouldn't this problem of wearing on the contacts indicate that
a Micro-SD in an adapter is a safer approach than using a full
size SD card ? Seems then the contact wear would be only on
the adapter. If those contacts go bad, you slip your Micro into
a fresh adapter and access your files, and junk the worn out
adapter ... wash, rinse, repeat.

Comments welcomed, requested, encouraged !


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Joe Blow wrote, in another thread:

"NOTE: The major cause of SD card failure is removing them
from the camera and putting them in a computer or card reader.
That causes wear on the contacts and may result in failure. It is
safer to use a USB cable to d/l the files. The bonus is most
cameras won't allow an outside source to write to the card ..... "

Hope Joe B is reading this. He prompts this question, or idea:

Wouldn't this problem of wearing on the contacts indicate that
a Micro-SD in an adapter is a safer approach than using a full
size SD card ? Seems then the contact wear would be only on
the adapter. If those contacts go bad, you slip your Micro into
a fresh adapter and access your files, and junk the worn out
adapter ... wash, rinse, repeat.

Comments welcomed, requested, encouraged !


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