Comments on: 11 tips for avoiding memory card problems

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 01:59:12 +0000

And what brands are the ones that malfunction the most? Kindly share those brands so that we can stay away from them.

By: Jan Maklak

Jan Maklak — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:26:56 +0000

One more tip. Ask your trusted retailer which cards seem to have the highest DOA rate (failure right after purchase) and stay away from these. I strike up a conversation with the sales person for a few minutes and then ask the question. There are certain brands I stay away from as a result.

By: sarah

sarah — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:16:27 +0000

do memory cards ever need to be retired, or do you just use them until they die? i have some that are several years old and i wonder if i should rotate them out?

if you do retire them, do u do it based on time (months? years?) or # of frames shot?

thanks!
-sarah

By: maritza

maritza — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:27:07 +0000

hey this is maritza and i have a problem with my memory card (camara) i hope you will be able to give me same advise ,there’s lot of photos on i took not long ago and when i whanted to load it on my computer it didnt read it at all. And on the corner the blue plastic covering the gold blocks broke of but even before it didnt whanted to read ?

By: Steve Berardi

Steve Berardi — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:18:15 +0000

Thanks, Andre! Glad you’re enjoying the site

Good point about removing cards before you sleep/hibernate your computer. I’ve run into similar problems with pen drives.

By: Andre

Andre — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:10:05 +0000

Hi, great site, havent been able to stop reading your site since I found it 2 days ago.

I would like to add 1 point, not really a memory card problem, but loss of photos.
I’ve got a Canon 500d and my laptop has a slot for SD Cards.
I was on holiday, so everyday I would copy all my photos to my computer, but one day in the holiday, I accidentally Hibernated my laptop with the card still in it.
Next day I thought to rather put the card back in before switching the laptop back on, somehow Windows XP remembered what was on the card, and cleared ALL extra photos that were on the card.
It was a sad day for me as I really took nice photos (IMO) that day.

Regards
Andre

By: Desfolio

Desfolio — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:22:08 +0000

These are great tips. Most of them I already know but there were a few that I did not.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 02 May 2009 01:04:54 +0000

Thanks for the tips, they are all very sensible. I use Kingston cards (one is 1GB, the other is 2GB), and they have served me very well… 1000s of photos well. I’ve been trying to reformat my cards more often, just to “refresh” them.

By: Nivaldo

Nivaldo — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:36:31 +0000

Thanks for your 11 tips. They were great, easy to understand and helpful.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:38:45 +0000

Thanks for the tips! Lots of stuff I’ve never thought of.