Re: Memory Stick Life Span

ASAAR wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:29:12 GMT, David J Taylor wrote:
>
>>>> Hint: The key to your problem my lie in the brand of your camera.
>>>
>>> What a totally stupid thing to say, memory sticks will last just the
>>> same as any other.
>>
>> So if memory sticks should last as long as any other (with which I
>> broadly agree), but someone is experiencing early failure, doesn't
>> that suggest that the camera might be at fault?
>
> Yes, it suggests that possibility, maybe even with a particular
> camera model. But it does not, as RA suggests, implicate the
> *brand* of the camera.

Agreed. If anything, you would hope that Sony cameras would be more,
rather than less, compatible with their own proprietary brand of memory
stick.

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> If the camera or its firmware was incompatible with the memory
> sticks, the problem would be evident from the beginning. The OP
> says that the problems don't appear until the cards have been used
> for several months.

To me that hints at, although not strongly, a handling issue, although it
would be worth checking for firmware updates or product recalls. It could
also be that it's only when the memory cards are full that the problem
happens. Erasing individual images might cause more card wear than
reformatting a card after use. I know that CF cards are supposed to
recycle memory allocations so that a particular directory block doesn't
get over-used - I presume memory sticks do the same?

David


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