The death and the memory card: a 1-star Requiem on my Lexar 1000x

Actually, I was very happy with the Lexar 32GB 1000x. If necessary, I could my EOS 5D III 33 RAW frames in succession shoot away until the buffer brake came. My focus is nature photography, and as action is sometimes called for. Until the day before yesterday I still had the card given 5 star - but yesterday ...

... Came the sudden Kartentod. Located in photographing reports the 5D3 that they can not read the card. Off and on again, the battery out and back in, nothing was more. For a SanDisc exchanged, and to my relief everything worked again. So at least the camera was okay. Home again: Neither MacBook, PC are other notebooks and netbooks that lying around for professional reasons with us could recognize the card, even if all available card readers nada.

A search on the Internet revealed then that the problem in the fast Lexar occurs most often (see also some negative reviews here). Infarct risk increases probably from nine months use, my card blessed before the age of one year the temporal. Luckily I did not have anything really important plan, just a few but nice zoo snapshots. If the card would have died, for example, when I could take in Scandinavia with a lot of luck to attack a Skua on a sea eagle, that would have been truly dramatic.

I return ruefully back to my old SanDiscs. Although much slower in data transmission, but have never left me even in a snowstorm in the lurch. SanDisc's just professional quality

Conclusion: It is precisely this reliability of the professional tool lacks the Lexar "Professional" 1000x. Who is on irretrievable moments from what is indeed the essence of nature photography, should better stay away from this card. Given the blatant price-for-life imbalance is a star in fact already one too many!

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Addendum: Amazon has the Lexar corpse withdrawn without objection and refunded the price, which ran from pleasantly and smoothly. The amount I'm going to invest in a fast SanDisk that I order on Amazon.