COMPACTFLASH CARD, 32GB, 400X Computers, Electronics, Office Supplies, Computing

hi my name is Chris noble i'm an independent IT consultant you're watching a video on compact flash card troubleshooting compact flash cards use solid-state memory which means they have no moving parts this makes them pretty reliable so problems that you will find with compact flash cards generally are caused by the devices that are writing to them things that can cause these problems are things like your camera running out of battery while it's trying to write a file could lead in a lead to a corruption of files on your compact flash card now things to do when you find these problems is to reformat the card and start again from scratch another common problem that people find with compact flash cards is that the read speeds are extremely slow when they're trying to read the data to their computer often the cause of this is a reader that's incompatible with the card there are some extrem