We've been having issues with SD cards recently. Our (I mean Mel's) new camera uses SD cards rather than CompactFlash which our previous camera used. So we had just started using the two cards that we had a lot more regularly (one had been in the video camera, the other in our netbook). After having a card reader fail on us (seems like every card reader has dodgy design which lets it get bent pins unless you put the card in very very carefully...), I'd bought a $2 card reader off ebay... which had been working fine. Until a couple of weeks ago.
Our larger card seemed to go bad, but then was working fine again after formatting. We hadn't lost any photos though. And then the other day, the smaller card suddenly went horribly bad in the camera - the camera couldn't access it at all. And we had lost some photos. Our $2 card reader is now completely dead... I suspect that it's the culprit.
Some recovery software (RescuePro and PhotoRec) has managed to retrieve some of the photos that were on it, but not all (I haven't processed any yet, which is part of the reason why our flickr uploading has been a little slow recently!). So we don't have as many photos of Christmas Day as we would have liked. After 7 years of using CompactFlash and never having any issues, I've decided I don't like SD cards.
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Sounds like you've had some bad luck. We have always used SD cards (& Tom actually prefers them) with no trouble at all. The card reader we use Tom has had since before 2004 & it still works fine.
Tom says that he would agree with you that the culprit was the cheap card reader. He says that where SD card & readers are concerned it is better to spend the bit extra & get a good one.
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