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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
That sounds like your SD card may be worse than corrupted - it may be fake. I've had quite a few of those. So many in fact that the first thing I do now whenever I buy a new SD card is fill it to the brim with large files, unplugging the card (to purge any FS cache), plugging it in again and reading the files back.

Quite a few cards I've had let you write e.g. 32GB worth of files without a blink, but when you try reading them back as per above, you find that anything written beyond let's say the 8GB mark reads back as all 0 (or all FF, depending on the card).

Thanks for the advice, that could well be the case. It was a Sandisc 64GB Ultra micro SDXC Class 10, purchased through Amazon Germany directly but it came in a cardboard box, not the shiny retail flap packaging.

It is a tricky one: as it works somewhat. But the failure already starts at 3GB writing. Smart counterfeiters would allow you to write the first 16GB w/o issue I suppose?

I still have the invoice, I will try to RMA it and follow your advice to report to Sandisk help desk.



Edit: I just wanted to conclude, all is good with other SD Card, script works good.

Previous report on subjective performance with 2 x 800 MB Swaps already dropped off the screen so I post it here one more time.

so I pushed the system a little bit and experience reasonable responsability, virtually unstuttering audio stream, workable front view and modrana.

Kept SD Swap partiiton 1 active.
Untill FlowSwap info said Fresh Swap Recommended
Used 1497 MB , 196% of 763MB
Conky reported about 300- 400 MB Swap used

Swapping partitions took a while!

-Conky
-five MicroB windows
-file manager
-internet radio over bluetooth
-Orechiette
-Xournal
-Frontview (still able to scan and size an image)
-Modrana
-WifiEye
-Sketch
-Cutetube
-Image Gallery
-Phone

Last edited by ste-phan; 2014-10-22 at 17:01.