So someone asked me to copy a bunch of data to a SD card, don't know why they want that, but that's what they want. Not a USB stuck, not a portable hard drive, but SD card.
So I ordered 2 256GB cards. They're Kingston Canvas! Go Plus. Start copying data then start to get massive IO errors and it eventually fails. Tried another identical card, same thing. I returned both cards as defective, got 2 new ones, and I had a hunch it was something oddball with that model so got a different more expensive one, a Sandisk Extreme Pro 256GB.
Get same thing happen with that one.
As a test, I took the SD card out of my camera. That one works flawlessly. It's too small though, othewise I'd just give them that one and keep the others.
The other thing that's weird, is the cards that get IO errors (5 so far) all work fine in cameras. I have my camcorder on record right now for the past 40 minutes and it has not failed yet. I still need to see how taking the footage off will work out though...
But what is going on, why would some cards give IO errors and some not? To rule out my PC I tried my Windows machine too, but it won't even read the ones that are failing, but it reads my camera ones fine. I'm at a loss here, what would be causing this?
So I ordered 2 256GB cards. They're Kingston Canvas! Go Plus. Start copying data then start to get massive IO errors and it eventually fails. Tried another identical card, same thing. I returned both cards as defective, got 2 new ones, and I had a hunch it was something oddball with that model so got a different more expensive one, a Sandisk Extreme Pro 256GB.
Get same thing happen with that one.
As a test, I took the SD card out of my camera. That one works flawlessly. It's too small though, othewise I'd just give them that one and keep the others.
The other thing that's weird, is the cards that get IO errors (5 so far) all work fine in cameras. I have my camcorder on record right now for the past 40 minutes and it has not failed yet. I still need to see how taking the footage off will work out though...
But what is going on, why would some cards give IO errors and some not? To rule out my PC I tried my Windows machine too, but it won't even read the ones that are failing, but it reads my camera ones fine. I'm at a loss here, what would be causing this?
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