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Are Sandisk SD cards from Argos always genuine?
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SD cards aren't forever. I found out after backing up a bunch of files to the card in my android, ready to move onto a new phone. Those writes were enough to kill the card - not even read only, I had to run recovery software to salvage files. My card was about 4 years old like yours. After that, I've paid the extra for high endurance cards even for normal usage.
Yeah I know, but I've had microSDs in my other devices for a lot longer. The one in my android 2 has been there more than 10 years at this point, my acekard one even longer (it corrupts, which is apparently normal for acekard, but doesn't die. I just put it through the formatter and it's fine again).
Those two cards barely lasted 2 years each.