do compact flash cards ever screw up?

[pennylane]

how could it happen? just wondering i guess

 

[rudeguy]

define screw up? I supposed if you dropped it or lit it on fire and did the dance of joy on it....yeah they could screw up

 

[BCYL]

Yes, I had a CF card corrupt on me once...

I guess the reader just happened to be accessing the card when I was plugging it in... all the files on it got corrupted...

 

[Wallydraigle]

Very rarely. I've had a reader corrupt a card before, but that wasn't the card's fault. I use two 512 meg cards, in my camera and I've only lost one or two images ever. Might have been a write issue in the camera, I'm not sure. Only half the image came out, it was weird. I've heard of people leaving CF cards in their pockets and putting them through the washer and they survived. They are very durable.

 

[Hartford]

i have had them go bad before to dude. it wasnt in my reader, it was just in my cam.

 

[Doggiedog]

Yes.

Sandisk had a whole bad batch of them just around Christmas time. I went through 2 of them and they kept losing data, having strange directories, problems writing, etc.

 

[toant103]

Originally posted by: heyzeus
how could it happen? just wondering i guess

yes
nothing is perfect

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: heyzeus
how could it happen? just wondering i guess

Do you mean does the data ever degrade over time (e.g. once written) or can the data get corrupted do to the way other devices use the card (e.g. while reading/writing)?

Bill

 

[0roo0roo]

after enough write cycles yea, but i dunno how long that is really. no counter really.