Date: 3/02/2018 15:23:11
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1183770
Subject: SD cards Reliability

Is there a program that can test SD cards for reliability ?

I know there is a sd formatter tool, but that not what I’m after.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html

It formats the sd card but does not appear to test it for reliability.

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Date: 3/02/2018 15:27:09
From: Tau.Neutrino
ID: 1183771
Subject: re: SD cards Reliability

I have this problem of putting in an sd card in the SD card reader, copy files over, take out the sd card, put the sd card back in, the files that I copied are not there.

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Date: 3/02/2018 16:50:16
From: furious
ID: 1183804
Subject: re: SD cards Reliability

Does the card have the read/write and read only toggle?

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Date: 3/02/2018 16:56:20
From: btm
ID: 1183808
Subject: re: SD cards Reliability

Did you eject the card (“Safely remove hardware” in Windows) before removing it? Have you run chkdsk on it?

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Date: 3/02/2018 17:00:53
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 1183811
Subject: re: SD cards Reliability

Tau.Neutrino said:

Is there a program that can test SD cards for reliability ?

I know there is a sd formatter tool, but that not what I’m after.

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html

It formats the sd card but does not appear to test it for reliability.

I don’t know, but ages ago I used to test hardware (such as floppy disks) for “bad sectors”. Is that what you mean?

If so, there are still programs around that do that. Perhaps EaseUS Partition Master or HDDScan. I haven’t tried either.

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Date: 3/02/2018 17:05:30
From: btm
ID: 1183815
Subject: re: SD cards Reliability

Have a look at TestDisk. I know it’s good for HDDs, but I’ve never tried it on USB/SD/μSD/etc.

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