I always run h2testw on my cards to check they have genuine capacities. A few years back I bought a few 8gb cards from various online retailers including the likes of eBay and amazon marketplace and online stores. When tested most of the cards turned out to be either fake capacity or failed during a stress test. Now I only buy retail packaged branded cards from big name retailers like amazon (when sold directly by amazon or fulfilled by Amazon) or argos, etc (my SanDisk 64gb was half price when I bought it with my phone at argos) then I test the crap out of them before entrusting photos to them.
I can only recommend that anyone buys from well established retailers that have genuine supply chains and something to lose if they were found to be selling fakes. Then stress test the card, try to break it. If it does then you dodged the bullet. Date the card, (label it) and once it's a few years old bin it or give it a throw away use coz these things only last about a 100,000 write cycles anyway.
Most importantly though, if you value your photos, videos etc please backup. There are lots of free and low cost solutions for this. I personally learned the hard way and a hard drive crash cost me 1year of my son's "baby photos", the wife and I were gutted but never again. If every device I own blew up right this moment I wouldn't lose a shred of valuable data.
Remember if you don't have 3 copies of it, it doesn't exist, 1 copy always needs to be off site I. E. Online and preferably 2 copies online with different storage providers
Sorry if that's a bit of a lecture but if it saves just 1 persons irreplaceable data then it's worth the page space here
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I can only recommend that anyone buys from well established retailers that have genuine supply chains and something to lose if they were found to be selling fakes. Then stress test the card, try to break it. If it does then you dodged the bullet. Date the card, (label it) and once it's a few years old bin it or give it a throw away use coz these things only last about a 100,000 write cycles anyway.
Most importantly though, if you value your photos, videos etc please backup. There are lots of free and low cost solutions for this. I personally learned the hard way and a hard drive crash cost me 1year of my son's "baby photos", the wife and I were gutted but never again. If every device I own blew up right this moment I wouldn't lose a shred of valuable data.
Remember if you don't have 3 copies of it, it doesn't exist, 1 copy always needs to be off site I. E. Online and preferably 2 copies online with different storage providers
Sorry if that's a bit of a lecture but if it saves just 1 persons irreplaceable data then it's worth the page space here
Sent from my ARHD S3