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Accidental Tech Podcast

582: Can’t Render, Fog It

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2024

⏱️ 149 minutes

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0:00.0

Have you, have either of you ever had an SD card go bad?

0:04.5

Hmm.

0:05.5

Don't think so.

0:07.0

I think what happens, you either, the capacity becomes so low that it become useless to you or you lose them.

0:13.2

I think those are the two failure modes for me.

0:15.3

Fair.

0:15.7

I actually had one go bad for, I think, the first time.

0:19.5

And it's, it's a good one.

0:20.7

It's like a sand disk

0:21.5

extreme pro, you know, blah. It's like one of the really good, fairly expensive ones.

0:26.9

And it is, it actually went bad. Like it's just producing right errors and any camera that

0:30.9

tries to write to it. Like, I'm like shaken to my core. Like, I always heard this was a possibility,

0:35.9

but like I've never seen it happen. Like, I'm

0:38.1

questioning everything now. Is the sky blue? I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often because

0:42.1

they are, you know, so inexpensive in the grand scheme of things in terms of how many bits they

0:45.9

hold, right? And they're small and flimsy and have those exposed contacts, but, you know, I guess.

0:50.7

Yeah, you know, I think the only failure I've had, which JJ Cooks in the chat has said the same thing.

0:57.2

One where the plastic around the contacts broke, and then that made it, like, super dodgy to continue to use because it was super duper, like, structurally compromised.

1:05.6

I've had that happen.

1:06.4

I don't think in terms of, like, what you're talking about, Mark, where it's just read or write errors.

1:10.1

I can't recall that ever happening. Although I will say that there is a special place in hell for both the

1:16.1

USBA designers and the person who designed the right protect switch on SD cards, because I

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