[OT] Testing an SD card

W Scott Lockwood III vladinator at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 16:37:36 UTC 2016


On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 17 August 2016 at 16:31, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I have an SD card for my smartphone which I suspect to be defect. Is there a
>> command to test this? (I can copy it with dd to a file, so far it works.)
>
> If you suspect it to be faulty (which presumably means it has done
> something odd) then just chuck it and get a new one. Even if it
> appears to be ok then if it has failed in some way once then it will
> fail again. Get a good make, it is false economy to get cheap ones. I
> generally use Sandisk.


This for sure. Sandisk SD's are awesome. There are programs that can
be used to check one, but they're so inexpensive now, why take a
chance with data you might care about?

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W. Scott Lockwood III




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