Never have had a memory card fail. Have lost a few. By the way, I haven't formatted a card in years, no problems.
I shoot mostly with what I hope is the best quality and speed 16 and 32 MB cards and always format them in the camera after downloading. That way if one should fail I haven't lost the whole shoot.
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