I bought a Samsung 32 GB micro SD around 2-3 years ago at Bestbuy for around $25 to be exclusively used in my Galaxy smartphone. Last week, I saw on the phone screen a message that says the SD card is being unmounted. I then looked at my photos and sure enough they are no longer there. I rebooted the phone a few times, didn't help. Took the card out and tried it on my other phone and computer, both unrecognized.

Has anyone here have such failures?

When I had some warranty problems prior on a Samsung smartphone about 5 years ago so I am registered with them. I called them up and they recognized me by my phone #. I told them my story and they sent me a list of questions to fill out and said they will likely replace the SD card. Samsung says these cards do fail sometimes for no explainable reasons. I'll see if they'll send me a new SD.

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 161K now
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked

Ive been lucky cleaning the terminals with a pencil eraser.

I have a friend's 300SD failed on me but not a micro SD. I thought this is DD forum. Am I missing something?😵

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W124 Keyless remote, PM for details. http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/mercedes-used-parts-sale-wanted/334620-fs-w124-chasis-keyless-remote-%2450-shipped.html

1 X 2006 CDI
1 x 87 300SDL
1 x 87 300D
1 x 87 300TDT wagon
1 x 83 300D
1 x 84 190D ( 5 sp ) - All R134 converted + keyless entry.

Tried it, didn't help. Also tried different adapters in the laptop.

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 161K now
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked

I thought we went through this before on a different thread?

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85 300D turbo pristine w 157k when purchased 161K now
83 300 D turbo 297K runs great. SOLD!
83 240D 4 spd manual- parted out then junked

I've definitely had them fail. Any solid state storage has a limited number of writes, so there's that. But also they can fail due to the mysteries of electronics or static electricity.

If you really wanted to get the data off, it's possible to run Spinrite on solid state drives, but the $90 for it pales in comparison to $10 for a new SD card.

-Rog

I had one fail in my Reconyx gamecam. It seemed fine when I set it up, came back a few days later and it was unrecognized. Wouldn’t work in other devices, either.

I haven't got anything that takes a MicroSD card, but I've had standard SD cards fail, USB flash sticks fail, and a laptop SSD fail. Anything can and will fail at some point, it only has a finite life. Your best defense is a backup of anything important. Redundant backups if it's REALLY important.

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Current stable:
1995 E320 149K (Nancy)
1983 500SL 120K (SLoL)

Black Sheep:
1985 524TD 167K (TotalDumpster™)

Gone but not forgotten:
1986 300SDL (RIP)
1991 350SD
1991 560SEL
1990 560SEL
1986 500SEL Euro (Rusted to nothing at 47K!)

All storage fails. My Ubuntu system reads more stuff than the win 10 OS on the same machine. Computer geek friend says to keep your data in at least 3 places.

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85SD 240K & stopped counting painted, putting bac together. 84SD 180,000. sold to a neighbor and member here but I forget his handle. The 84 is much improved from when I had it. 85TD beginning to repair to DD status. Lots of stuff to do.

Yup. I've had all sorts of hard drive fails including SD cards.

There are folks out there who will recover what's on it if you haven't backed it up for money. I had to do that recently when one of my drives died.

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I don't believe I am responding to computer storage problems in DD. May be this DD forum is too quiet in these days. The best method is to store anything important in the cloud. Let the vendor handled the redundancy problem. Problem solved. The cloud location can be anywhere, who cares.

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Not MBZ nor A/C trained professional but a die-hard DIY and green engineer. Use the info at your own peril. Picked up 2 Infractions because of disagreements. NOW reversed.

W124 Keyless remote, PM for details. http://www.peachparts.com/shopforum/mercedes-used-parts-sale-wanted/334620-fs-w124-chasis-keyless-remote-%2450-shipped.html

1 X 2006 CDI
1 x 87 300SDL
1 x 87 300D
1 x 87 300TDT wagon
1 x 83 300D
1 x 84 190D ( 5 sp ) - All R134 converted + keyless entry.

Yup, several.

Yup, this is the diesel discussion COMPUTER FORUM...

Come on guys... how else are we getting pictures on here?

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

I have three cloud storage servers in my house...

All my phones and laptops are tied to all of them... my kids and project pics all need to be preserved.

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John HAUL AWAY, OR CRUSHED CARS!!! HELP ME keep the cars out of the crusher! A/C Thread
"as I ride with my a/c on... I have fond memories of sweaty oily saturdays and spewing R12 into the air. THANKS for all you do!

My drivers:
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5Turbo
1987 190D 2.5-5SPEED!!!

1987 300TD
1987 300TD
1994GMC 2500 6.5Turbo truck... I had to put the ladder somewhere!

SD memory cards definitely will fail. Many modern DSLR cameras like my Nikon D750 have dual SD cards for precisely this reason. You can set it so that each photo taken gets written to both SD cards in parallel. That way, if a card fails, you still have all your photos on the other card.

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1998 E300 turbodiesel

America's Rights and Freedoms Are Not The Enemy!

neat solution but not exactly cloud-ish as it is in your house ...

anyone can benefit from google drive for example,you get 15Gb per account
it is easy it is free and simple enough ... if you need more space,fire another G account up and that is it....

accessible from any location on planet...


cheers,

ChO

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w126 500SEC gen II euro, powered by OM617 turbo stolen from 84 300SD 2.88 diff,EGR blinded
next wish/project: w114 coupe OM603 powered