William Kenworthy wrote: > ... >> This thread has been interesting tho. At least I know that a Sandisk >> card at least tries to fail in a way that I can get the data off that >> did get written to the card. Hey, that's a lot better than some I >> guess. :-D I've had some other brands that when they die, they dead. >> You get nothing at all. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> > From memory (I found some articles describing what was happening when > investigating a while back) - its common with other brands too so > might be part of the specification - if it detects a failure, it > forces permanent read only mode to enable data recovery. Some cards > may be put back into write mode by software but not all and I wouldn't > trust it anyway. I have Kingston, Samsung and Sandisk cards - I > regard Samsung as very slightly better but not enough to go out of my > way and pay more for them. > > BillK > > > >
I tend to buy Sandisk and Kingston as well. I'll add Samsung to my list tho. In the past, most have failed and I lose whatever was on the card. I think this is the first time one failed in this way. I guess it depends on how it fails tho. Dale :-) :-)
