Re: card failures. While Sandisk is one of the reputable and quality card suppliers out there, they do fail... I've used about a dozen brands over the past 10 years including Ridata, Kingston, Sandisk, Transcend, Patriot, PNY, Wintech, etc. Interestingly the only 2 cards that have ever failed on me (not due to user error) were Sandisk cards. Go figure. Statistics. Anecdotes. I'll still buy them, though - I usually try to buy on price and high review count and medium to medium high speeds for a given era of cards. No sensible reason to write off a specific brand or type based on N=1 samples. Now, if there is a trend, that's another story...