How to lose 16GB of your digital life, Just like that!

Posted by BA on Sep 11, 2009 in Uncategorized | 6 comments

I’ve been using a 16GB Micro SDHC card in my Nokia N82 and it’s been less than a year yet. I have been very happy with the performance and obviously the capacity. Then it started behaving a little weird. The read and write times were taking way more than normal and when listening to music, I could hear the music hanging every now and then.

I thought I’ve not formatted my phone for a long time and so many software and data on the phone, its being over loaded. I never realized that my beloved memory card is misbehaving. One fine evening I was taking a macro-closeup of a crawling insect that my phone actually clogged, hanged and got stuck right after the photo was taken. I waited several minutes but the phone did not come back. Only thing I could do was to pull the battery and boot it again.

To my highly unpleasant surprise, the phone worked just fine but the memory card never came back. I’ve tried all the card readers, phones, converters, jackets and means to try to get it back up and running but no luck so far.

What did I lose?

I have been so confident about these memory cards that I take backups only when they get filled up. And filling up a Sandisk’s 16GB Micro SDHC for a smart phone is not that common. As a result, not only I lost the card but I lost my past 6 months of photos, videos and other stuff like music and video collection that I used to carry on my phone all the time. Alas!

Lesson learnt:

Always take backups

Moreover, despite my efforts the card never came back and I had to end up downgrading to my 8GB card that continues to work fine so far.

Another Lesson Learnt
Always keep a backup storage medium. If you primary storage fails, you are up and running on the backup.

Yet another lesson learnt
Whenever you find your storage media or related devices working unusually slow or even differently, at least take a backup of your data!

I’ve learnt these lessons the hard way. I hope you learn them from my experience!

Miniature Memory, Miniature Reader

Posted by BA on Nov 12, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

Memory sizes have been reducing since their inception. All types of memory devices including hard disks, removable drives, memor cards, usb drives, all have been getting smaller and smaller. That is how they have been increasing their capacities in the same casing. Micor SD is an example of such miniaturization.

Today I’m goign to talk about a miniature memory card reader that I just got my hands onto. This card is almost as small as the memory card itself. More interesting part is, it looks as if its all plastic and gets inserted into a normal USB slot and works just fine. See for yourself:

You can see how small it is. And very interestingly, its not metal from outside.

Simply insert the card and you are ready to go.

Goodies

Posted by BA on Oct 26, 2008 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

I have received a pack of toys that I’ll be playing with from now on. I will keep posting about these on my blog. First to be metioned is a Class-2 Micro-SDHC Card with 16 GB capacity. I’ll be using it to boost-up my phone’s memory capacity.

Stay tuned.