gbarry42
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During some unrelated web surfing, I happened across the Wikipedia article for SD cards. There's a reference there to some "questionable" cards, and leading thence to the go-to guy for all your electronics industry eyebrow raising, Andrew "Bunnie" Huang. This is fairly technical, but anyone who knows "bunnie's blog" knows they're in for a treat. Basically, there is a lot of counterfeit, bad, and just plain shady hardware out there, and the name-brand companies can't easily protect you from it.
It hadn't occurred to me that errors on a flash system didn't just return an read/write error. They can corrupt the file system as well. We can't know for sure what the problem with the Blink SD cards was, but it's sure consistent with the "replace with another of apparently the same type" kind of thing that went on. And we see that Blink wasn't the only company affected.
It hadn't occurred to me that errors on a flash system didn't just return an read/write error. They can corrupt the file system as well. We can't know for sure what the problem with the Blink SD cards was, but it's sure consistent with the "replace with another of apparently the same type" kind of thing that went on. And we see that Blink wasn't the only company affected.