SD Card surprise

[Ray-uk]

Over the years I have accumulated a lot of old SD cards, today I decided to have a sort out of the ones I was never going to use.  I was running them through a card speedtest program when I found one that wouldn't even show up on the PC and seemed to be completely dead. Before I put it in the bin I decided to take it apart (I tend to do things like that !) and was very surprised at what I found.

This was a normal looking cheapie full sized SD card.

Inside was a micro SD card, this was not an adaptor, the micro SD was sealed inside and not even soldered in position.

Just out of interest I put the micro SD into a card reader and it worked so it was all down to poor connections inside the larger case.

I wonder how many of the fake re-labelled cards are built in this way.

This what a proper full sized SD card looks like inside.

[rs-eos]

Nice find!

Over the years I've used exactly two brands of SD cards.  Those from Canon (still have a 16 MB one for sentimental sake) and SanDisk.

Yep, do only purchase reputable brands and then only from reputable dealers.  e.g. Amazon is known to to have fake cards.

[BurnUnit]

That's hysterical!  Sure wasn't expecting to see that inside.

I thought maybe there would be a couple of tiny hamsters running in an exercise wheel. Or  maybe some Sea-monkeys.

[normadel]

I wondered for a long time how the lock "switch" on an SD card worked. Finally broke one open to see the "switch". 

That's how I learned the actual switch is in the card slot of the camera.

I now wonder why SD cards(full-size ones) even have to have a lock switch. No other memory card types do.