another sd card dead?

[alpinestars96]

The 2gb card I took from my sirius stiletto when upgrading to a 4 gb is now not working. This just happened to my other 2g kensington card, what gives? My computer acts like there is nothing there now when it didnt with it before.

[TorrentSearch]

Well they're not supposed to have a very long life. How old is the card?

[wapazoid]

What's the typical life span supposed to be?

[TorrentSearch]

I hear cheap cards have 10k cycles until errors appear.
10k sounds a lot, but it isn't - the directory data is stored at a certain offset and each time you write (or erase) data, the directory is updated; so it's only 10000 files written or deleted until the drive fails. A-Grade chips (Samsung etc.) will last much longer, probably 10-100x as many write cycles.

[wapazoid]

That is pretty short. Fortunately, I haven't had one die on me yet.