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Memory Card Advice and Best PracticeData Recovery

by Rocket on October 19, 2011 with 0 comment

Look after your memory cards and they will look after you. 1. Life Span of Cards. Although memory cards don’t have a mechanical lifespan due to the absence of moving parts, they are subject to wear and abuse like any other piece of gear. We recommend retiring a card after 2 years of use. Retiring …

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What to do if you can’t find your Photos or VideoData Recovery

by Rocket on October 19, 2011 with 0 comment

Step One – Don’t Panic. For various reasons this will occasionally happen. In the vast majority of cases, images and video can be successfully recovered with little or no loss of data. Step Two – Stop What You’re Doing. The best thing to do if you are in this position and not 100% sure of …

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Fake Memory CardsDigital Tech

by Rocket on October 8, 2011 with 0 comment

Don’t get caught out with a counterfeit card. We are seeing a large increase in the number of fake memory cards coming in for our data recovery service. Fake cards come out of China in industrial quantities (an estimated 100 Million in 2010) and are often very difficult to spot. Due to how they are …

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Memory Cards in Washing MachinesDigital Tech

by Rocket on October 8, 2011 with 0 comment

Maisie. Please don’t leave memory cards in your jeans next time you put them in the wash.   If you have a water damaged card and the images on them are not showing up, there is a strong likely hood that the data can be recovered. The process takes some time but can often recover …

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CF cards shouldn’t rattle. EverDigital Tech

by Rocket on June 3, 2011 with 0 comment

Compact Flash memory cards shouldn’t make a sound. Turn round time to recover images from a damaged card varies. Is this a hassle you (and your client) wants to put up with? [divider_padding] It might be that one of the plastic pegs inside came lose while it was being manufactured, or another foreign object found …

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Memory Cards – RecommendationsDigital Tech

by Rocket on February 6, 2011 with 0 comment

Here at Rocket we only recommend two manufacturers of Memory cards – Sandisk and Lexar. The vast majority of problems we see with corrupted files originate not from the camera but from the memory card. Both Sandisk and Lexar have (from our experience) much better quality control over what comes off the production line. That is not …

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Nikon D7000 – Approved Memory CardsCamera News

by Rocket on January 30, 2011 with 0 comment

A list of memory cards have been tested for use in the D7000. It is always good to go get official information direct from the manufacturer on what they recommend. The following are all the tested and approved memory cards for the Nikon D7000. You will notice Kingston is absent from the list. The camera uses …

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Memory Cards – TipsDigital Tech

by Rocket on December 8, 2010 with 0 comment

Five Good Pieces Of Advice 1. Life Span of Cards. Although memory cards don’t have a mechanical lifespan due to the absence of moving parts, they are subject to wear and abuse like any other piece of gear. We recommend retiring a card after 2 years of use. Retiring the card can mean using it …

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