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I have never had problems with my SD cards in the past. I have had Sony SD cards, SANDisk etc… I have run them for years in my phones, cameras, MP3 players, PDAs. It is one of those things you just take for granted, there isn’t much to them they should just work.

Well for Christmas I got a digital picture frame and needed an SD card to have it read the pictures from. I went to Walmart and bought the cheapest one I could find, I mean come on it is just an SD card right? Well I bought a 1GB Lexar SD card for like $15. Everything worked fine for a while, of late I have been noticing that some of my pictures were turning weird colors, getting lines through them. Not all of them so I knew it wasn’t the frame’s screen or anything, but since rebooting the frame and reinserting the card didn’t help I thought maybe the files were getting corrupt. I came in this morning and there was just a ? on the screen. I put the SD card in my laptop’s SD card reader and it won’t read it anymore.

Can you believe that crap? 1 month and the thing burns out. Junk! I guess I won’t go for the Lexar brand anymore. Anyone else have experiences with SD cards burning out like that?