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How many people have actually had a card failure that was borderline catastrophic? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by KwokAndBirdLTD@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Just curious to see if anyone's ever had a catastrophic card failure that either cost them a job, or perhaps have been saved by that dual-SD card slot that so many cameras have these days.

Thinking about upgrading from an a57 (2012) to an a6700 (2023), but I'm seeing a lot of people complain about the lack of a dual-SD card slot. My a57 has never given me any kind of SD trouble and so I'm debating if I actually should listen to the complaints about the a6700.

Has new technology increased the frequency of card failures perhaps?

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[–] IdontOpenEnvelopes@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

I know of 2 card failures amongst 4 pro photographers. Both appear to be related a low height drop onto a hard surface. I've had a few cards age out, they start getting slow to read/write, corrupted, eventually can't read them. No recovery tools work at that point. I've had x2 hard drives fail. One main and one backup, gave up the magic smoke. All in 10 years of shooting. Used to run Raid 1 on my backups . Lots of boot sector errors.