Re: Memory Stick Life Span

ASAAR wrote:
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> Yep, I thought of handling being one of the more likely causes,
> especially if the cards were handled with hands that recently held
> potato chips. :) Even if memory sticks don't reallocate memory
> blocks, unless they're used by extremely busy pros, card wear
> shouldn't be a factor until they've been used for many years,
> possibly decades. To have the same problem show up with each new
> card, within months, is unlikely to be due to worn out memory cells.
> I'd be much more suspicious of the way the camera is used. If it
> doesn't have a good "early warning" battery indicator, using the
> camera until it shuts down due to the batteries being depleted could
> cause card problems if it shut down during a write to the card. If
> it wasn't for the fact that the camera operates normally while using
> a relatively new card, I would also have suspected some kind of
> intermittent hardware problem with the camera.

Yes, if it was a design problem, something would be known about it and an
Internet search would surely find something. So if it's not handling
problems, then something in the camera (like a wrongly set low-voltage
indicator).

sony "memory stick" premature failure

produces 650 hits in Google.

I wonder if when the stick becomes full it takes longer to write, and
early removal from the camera or card reader causes the problem?

David


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