I do. My slate has an internal solid state hard drive, but it only holds 64 gig. So I’ve been using a 32 gig SD card (as a “D:” drive) for my “data” hard drive and the original hard disk for my executables — the “C:” drive, as it were. But the other day, our I.T. guy pointed out that SD cards have a known life-span. Granted it’s somewhere around 1 million writes — but think about it. That’s not one million writes for one pixel. That’s one million for the card as a whole — so, seeing as how the boot sector gets addressed all the time — Yikes.

Bottom line: Join me in backing up *often*.

Line *under* the bottom line: If your (or my) SD card gets hosed, here are some products that might help you (us) recover data. All are Win/Mac compatible.

 

Photorecovery: There’s a demo version at

 

http://www.lc-tech.com/photorecovery.htm

 

or purchase at US$39.95. Windows 2000 or higher.

 

SanDisk RescuePro: at

 

http://www.lc-tech.com/rescuepro.htm

 

Trial version. Price: US$40. Windows and Mac OSX.

 

File Rescue Plus: at

 

http://download.cnet.com/File-Rescue-Plus/3000-2248_4-10192710.html

 

Free demo. Price: US$29.95. Windows Vista, XP etc.

 

PhotoRescue: at

 

http://www.datarescue.com/photorescue

 

Trial version. Price: US$29. Windows and Mac OSX.

 

ImageRecall 2: at

 

http://www.imagerecall.com

 

demo version or US$39.95. Windows.

 

MediaRECOVER: at

 

http://www.mediarecover.com

 

Demo version. Price: US$29.95. Windows and Mac OSX.

 

Read more:

 

These and more came courtesy

 

http://www.digital-photography-school.com/memory-cards-more-on-keeping-memory-cards-healthy-and-data-recovery

 

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