SD memory card test video

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Barry_Green

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These guys did perhaps the coolest SD card test ever (and the guys who did it are members here, too.) I was actually going to do something similar, so when I found this video I was like -- cool, that's a lot of effort I don't have to go through! :thumbsup:


I actually bought a SanDisk Extreme Pro, a Transcend, I already have some Panasonic Golds, and I got a new Panasonic "pro" card, and was going to get a Hoodman Raw Steel card to do the test with. I was going to do some things similar to them (baking the cards in the oven, etc). Some things I was going to do different, like the shock test -- they shot it with a gun, I was going to strap the cards to a football and have a high school kicker kick it, but it ends up about the same. Their bathtub test is a little worse and a lot milder than what I was gonna do; I was gonna leave 'em in the ocean for three days. And I bought an electric stun gun to do a shock test on them, although I doubt any of them would have survived.

So, it would have been fun, but now there's no need because these guys did a pretty good and entertaining job!
 
Haha! Nice. By the way, I am sure the ocean would corrode the hell out of those contacts in just a short amount of time! :)
 
Great! I got the San Disk and it is the best card I have. I knew I should have stuck with Panasonic.
 
Fun test, but they didn't have the Professional Panasonic UHS-1 Card, it is silver in color and has a QR code on it. Other than that it would be about the same. The professional card also has Recovery Software and a Card Checker software as well as a 1 year warranty.
 
Well you could but it does seem a little inconvenient, and you do stand a chance to drink it with your scotch or serve it to a guest.
;-)
 
They really should have used a new card for each test. How can you reliably try a crush test after the you basically destroyed one of the cards from the previous tests? Cause taping it definitely brings it back to factory manufacturing standards.
 
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Very unscientific.

Very entertaining (a red-tipped toy gun?).

But nonetheless makes me glad I use Panasonic Golds. :happy:
 
Andrew McCarrick said:
They really should have used a new card for each test. How can you reliably try a crush test after the you basically destroyed one of the cards from the previous tests? Cause taping it definitely brings it back to factory manufacturing standards.
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We were only given a single card by each manufacturer. Of course we would have rather used a new card each time, but we did what we could with the material we had. Thanks for checking out the video, it was a fun shoot.
 
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