Anyone had failing SD-cards?

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Oller Visuals

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So I had my first dead SDHC card, a Kingston class 10. It's just broken, can't be read- or formated on any device.

I guess this is why you buy Sandisk...
 
The only card I've had fail was also a Kingston. When I went online I found there was a known flaw and recall on it (this was about 14 months ago).

The fault was with the hardware controller so none of the software recovery options could help. I did get my files back at a cost of $300 via a German firm.
 
I've had a no-brand SD card and a a Transcend physically fall apart on me...like pull the plastic shell apart. Thankfully, I didn't lose any footage in either case, and once the plastic halves have separated from one another, into the trash it goes.
 
I've had a lot of issues with a couple of no-brand cards, but I only used those on a point-and-shoot. For serious stuff, I use Transcend cards, and haven't had a problem (others have, so this may be just luck).
 
I've had one Transcend card die on me four years ago, but nothing since then. ( I use SanDisk and Patriot cards )
 
I have equal numbers of Kingston and Integral Ultima Class 10 cards (a total of 12 cards used in 2 Canon DSLRs over 3 years). I labeled the cards so they would be rotated to even out the load across all cards. No problems found except my fault I think -- once I put a card in a reader slot perhaps not quite guided in straight and the card did not show up on the computer. Took it out and I noticed the "lock" slider was now moving free. The card could not be read again; luckily I only had some lens tests on it so I just put it down to experience (to handle these cards more carefully). Hope you didn't lose anything too valuable, mate.
 
Same thing happened to me last year, it was a kingston 64gb class 10. Almost lost all my valuable files, wouldn't read onto the computer for a while. NEVER happened with sandisk so I would suggest always going with them or even Lexar is good as well.

Oller Visuals said:
So I had my first dead SDHC card, a Kingston class 10. It's just broken, can't be read- or formated on any device.

I guess this is why you buy Sandisk...
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Sandisk so far so good here. We did however have a few glitches when log & transferring the media on it. Luckily we still had the cards with the footage so we could do it again. That time things went alright.
 
One Patriot Card 16 GB Class 10 simply stopped reading or writing to when I was preparing for shoot. This one out of 20 cards I've had over three years. Still gives you a bit of anxiety around the probability of failing cards.
 
I bought two new Sandisk SD cards a few months ago. Out of the box, one of them was corrupted and could not be formatted in either camera or computer. It's the first time I've had that happen, but it happened.
 
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