Spent 6 months chasing a ghost on my dashcam footage till I changed the SD card type

Kept getting corrupted files. Replaced the camera, rewired it, even bought a new power supply. Nothing worked. A guy at a camera shop noticed I was using a regular SD card. Swapped to a high endurance card meant for constant overwriting. 3 months now, zero corruptions. Anyone else run into this with dashcams?

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skylerg171mo ago

Have you considered that the problem might not be the card type at all? I've been running standard SanDisk cards in my dashcam for over two years without a single issue, and I live somewhere with extreme temperature swings. It could be that your particular camera model has a faulty card slot or voltage regulator that spikes during writes, and the high endurance card is just better at handling that bad behavior. Maybe try a different brand of regular card before declaring victory.

abby_king221mo agoTop Commenter

Wait, has anyone actually tried testing their dashcam with a cheapo brand card just to see what happens? I used a no-name card from Amazon for like a month in mine and it worked fine, but then I switched back to a Sandisk and it started glitching on me. That's what made me think my camera slot might be the issue, not the card. Honestly I think some cams are just picky about certain brands or even manufacturing batches, not just endurance ratings. I've had good luck with PNY cards in my older dashcam too, so maybe it's worth swapping brands before shelling out for high endurance ones.