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Secure Digital (SD) memory cards

A family of memory cards including SD, SDHC (high capacity), extended capacity (SDXC) and SDIO, and available in 3 sizes: the standard SD, miniSD, and microSD.

A more detailed description of types, functionality and performance of SD Cards, on Wikipedia

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Confused about Speeds in SD Card Specs

I'm looking at buying some SD cards and am having some difficulty with the quoted speeds. For example, take this card: It has a V30 video speed class, a C10 speed class, UHS 3 speed class and 95MB/s. All seems fine, but when I look at the following…
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Deleting images from a card - bad practice?

I stumbled across this article today which said: It’s bad practice to delete images from your SD cards since it can lead to corrupted data. Instead, you want to format (or re-format) your cards between shoots or once they’re full. Really? Is…
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SD Card Format Speed Between Brands

Context So I have 2 SDXC cards of identical storage space by Lexar (Lexar 1000X) and Sandisk (Sandisk Extreme Plus). They have a small variance in terms of storage space <~1%. Functionally, they work the same on my Sony a6300 and I've had no…
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Why don't consumer interchangeable-lens cameras support two SD cards?

Many of the reasons for Why do some professional cameras have dual memory card slots? seem to apply to consumer interchangeable lens cameras (whether mirrorless or SLRs) as well: If one SD card becomes corrupt, I want to continue shooting to the…
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How to get SD card to import photos into one folder each time loaded

How to fix photos loading in one picture at a time when you load an SD card? It used to ask you when up put in each SD card how to handle, now it doesn't. If I look at Settings/Devices/Autoplay - it's turned on and set to ask me everytime for…
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About Card's write protect switch in Canon EOS 70D

In my Canon EOS 70D camera, when I insert the SD memory card, the screen shows Card's write protect switch is set to lock. This is in spite of having pushed the card's lock switch up.. The card works in another canon camera. What else should I do?
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How to format SDHC 8GB card for Sanyo Xacti VPC-E6 camera on Linux

Some years ago, I bought a SDHC 8GB card for a Sanyo Xacti VPC-E6 camera and it worked fine. Then I used the card for other purposes. Now, that I'd like to use the card back in the camera, I cannot find the way to do it. When I insert the card in…
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Corrupt SD cards asking to format?

I'm an avid photographer and used bunch of cameras and memory cards that didn't given me any problem like this. Yesterday night when i was transferring files from the SD card to my Laptop, the power supply goes down accidentally and since then, I…
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New sdcard: 94mb of 98GB corrupted

I just bought a new sdcard. Before leaving the shop I ran a test. The test failed at 19GB. I tried to return it, met a lot of resistance and finally agreed that if they can show me it storing more than 30GB I'd accept it. They managed to do that…
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SD cards - I keep receiving a message saying there's a problem with my SD card, but it's brand new!

It started, bizarrely, with my CANON 650D freezing for a while. I tried turning it off and it wouldn't - I suspect I did this too soon after taking a photo and the card was still saving the data. Now when I try using my camera it flashes a message…
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