How Long Should Smcs Last?

[TelcoLou]

I just bought 2 128 SMCs form some online store who claims "over 100,000 re-writes"

I think that's a bit of wishful thinking.

I've been using a Sandisc SMC since I had my first GP32 FLU, over a year ago, and it's getting glitchy as of late; Genesis ROMS vanished, and Windups randomly loses its config file, leaving me booting up into an icon-less desktop. :angry:

Is there, from anyone's experience, a definitive 'lifespan' for these things?

* adds another thing to the checklist of "things that piss TelcoLou off" *

 

[catmince]

it'd have to be at least 1000 writes/Rewrites. 10,000 Would be plausable.

 

[TelcoLou]

Hmmm .... well then, are they super-delicate? I don't think I've re-written over the same sector(s) (is my terminology accurate?) anywhere near 1000 times .... maybe a couple of hundred ...

Anyhow, I've destroyed the corrupted SMC, and found the smallest wires ever connecting the contacts to the media itself!!

One down, three to go :lol:

 

[Hooka]

Technically if you write to a SMC once and put it in a time capsule it should still be good 250 years from now or more with actual Samsung ones

 

[Blah]

How good do the generic ones hold up? Like PQI ones.
I read somewhere that if you completely rewrote your smc
1 time per day for 30 years it would still work. Doubts it.

 

[TelcoLou]

I suggest you all make a back-up folder for each of your SMCs ... it just saved me hours of searching for all the stuff I've accumulated the past few months :lol:

 

[toxibunny]

actually I've been noticing things getting a bit glitchy on my original SMC (1.5 yrs old maybe)... I never really thought about why...

I've read that a format can Identify bad areas and mark them 'don't use', so maybe you were a bit hasty in destroying yours, Telco...

 

[catmince]

Supposedly the Format is the most reliable out of any Memory card format.

This may be old but what the hey InterestingTest

 

[TelcoLou]

actually I've been noticing things getting a bit glitchy on my original SMC (1.5 yrs old maybe)... I never really thought about why...

I've read that a format can Identify bad areas and mark them 'don't use', so maybe you were a bit hasty in destroying yours, Telco...

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Nope. I've re-formatted it 3 or 4 times now ... thru the PC-link/GP Manager app thingy (I've read that formatting it via windows thru a card reader can cause issues).

It had been getting worse over the past 2 weeks ... random things vanishing, or being inaccessable ... I'm playing around with a new SMC now, and so far so good ...

 

[catmince]

Still for a year and a half of use it's done pretty well. R.I.P little smartmedia card

 

[Blah]

Supposedly the Format is the most reliable out of any Memory card format.

This may be old but what the hey InterestingTest

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Yeah, but what about the continous formatting,file copying, moving, and deleting
that us Gp32 users do.

 

[dr.no]

I've got 3 SMCs (of different brands each) and they have got that random file lockup syndrome too. But they have hardly been used at all.
And if you put them in some HQ digicam (although it has to be an old one, because who needs SMCs anymore), they work perfectly.

 

[kknd_cf]

I suggest you all make a back-up folder for each of your SMCs ... it just saved me hours of searching for all the stuff I've accumulated the past few months :lol:

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lol I've been doing that from the very beginning. Darn, I;'m really starting to miss my gp32 now
EDIT: OH well, soon I'll have a FLU!