Memory Card Photo Recovery: How to Recover Pictures from an SD Card Think of your SD card as a long, sandy beach. Imagine each file living in that card is a tiny bit of metal—a wristwatch, or a coin, or a…
Updated 1/7/2019 What Makes a Good SD Card Go Bad? Good SD cards can go bad for a variety of reasons. There is a long list of potential culprits in situations like this, ranging from “you ejected the card too…
The client in this memory card recovery case study had an eight-gigabyte SanDisk SD card full of videos. Or, at least, it had been full of videos, until they reformatted it. Soon after they’d reformatted the memory card and wiped…
Formatted SD Card Recovery – Small Change, Big Consequences A reformat is a small change with big consequences. Whether you do it to a hard drive, an SSD, or an SD card, it tends to play out in the same…
What Makes Flash Different From Disks? Obviously, your memory cards do not store data the same way your hard drive does. The mechanical components necessary to store data magnetically simply cannot be miniaturized to the point where a hard drive can comfortably…
microSD cards seem almost excessively tiny. They can fit comfortably on a dime. And yet that tiny package can store dozens or hundreds of gigabytes of data. They seem to be a tiny mystery. But they are actually just the same…
If you crack open an SD card, you’ll likely be able to see the NAND flash memory chip. NAND flash has become the go-to for solid state data storage in this day and age. You can find it in not…
