SD Card Corruption

[RyuReiatsu]

Does it happen often to you people?
I don't know why, but it seems to happen to me every 3~4 months.

Anybody's got an idea as of why it happens?

 

[phantomphungus]

Well, there are some hacks that, when over-done, will shorten the life of your SD card. Just sayin'

EDIT: F-f-f-fiir- (gets shot)

 

[rPSIvysaur]

It happens to me way too often, it's really, really annoying

 

[Sph34r]

SD are ruined through continued usage. You can write to them about 4000-6000 times on average before they stop working, but you can read about 2,000,000 (million) times before anything happens. As of yet, there aren't any hacks that constantly write to the SD card that would ruin it in a mere 4 months. Maybe you did something else?

 

[mofo_]

perhaps a file in your sd or computer. always remove the sd card safely by going to the taskbar and press 'safely remove hardware'....sometimes its just random

 

[SymphonicSage12]

isn't music constantly streamed?

the only thing I could think of would be songs that are large in file size (think ToS)


maybe if you had like 50 ToS songs on your sd card..

 

[Sph34r]

Music is read, not written, so there shouldn't really be a problem. I've been using my 2GB SD card for a year and a half now, and put file replacement 3.5.1's music effects into use the second it came out, and so far have no problems.

Oh well though, SD cards are like... $5-10?

 

[kciD]

A format usually fixes a corruption problem. Just make sure you keep a back up of your SD on your computer. It seems to me that SD cards (or any memory card or USB stick) are quite unstable, and I haven't found a reliable one yet. Any time you are moving around files (especially bigger ones), something gets screwed up and it needs to be formatted.

Then again, maybe I just buy cards that are too cheap, or maybe my computer sucks and it screws up the card every time.

 

[RyuReiatsu]

perhaps a file in your sd or computer. always remove the sd card safely by going to the taskbar and press 'safely remove hardware'....sometimes its just random

You just pinned it.
I don't remove it with the safety thing.

I'll do that from now on... *Facepalms*