Damn it! Something Else Breaks!

So to start off the year my oven blows up. I had to replace that (It arrives tomorrow. Can’t wait! Mmm… Ceramic cooking top…). Then as I was packing my gear for my trip down to CES this weekend, my CORSAIR 2GB SD Card breaks into pieces.

I had actually mentioned to my contact at CORSAIR when I first got the card that it had some weird fit issue. Like it never really fit properly in the slot. You can see the wear on the sticker near the front. It just seemed like it was a hair thicker than most SD cards I’ve used.

I guess eventually, after removing it enough times, the casing decided to wear out and shatter. It also seemed a bit brittle, perhaps from the heat generated inside the camera during use. The card is quite close to the battery compartment in my Panasonic FX9 digital camera. This actually happened as I was pulling it out of my card reader so I’m glad that nothing got stuck inside.

I’m going to be seeing CORSAIR in Las Vegas. Hopefully I’ll be able to have it replaced for me upon my return. I’ve actually only seen this happen once before on my parent’s digital camera. The one they had was a Transcend branded one. I wonder if both cards were made by the same manufacturer. Hopefully the manufacturer has already seen failures like this in the field and have fixed it in production. Imagine if you took a trip around the world and stored all your memories on a single SD card only to have it shatter as you remove it to have the pictures develop? That would really suck.

Good thing I have a drawer of backups. But that was my favourite and one of my fastest cards.