My wife feels that this is a daily occurrence after I take a shower anyway. Not having access to a sauna nearby, I decided to recreate one of my own. Which meant that I couldn’t strap it to a metal pole or bury it in the hot desert sand. Temperatures were over 100☏ back then, but winter had already shown its face to us here by the time this card arrived in the mail. Firstly because those tests were done when it was still fairly warm in Dubai. I thought I’d change things up a bit for the Lexar Professional CFexpress card this time. Over a year ago, we did similar extreme tests with a PNY Pro Elite card. Although it took a few seconds longer than usual to appear in my Finder window, all the files were intact. Still chilly to the touch after this, I held my breath again as I plugged the card into the reader. It sat here alongside my Indian filter coffee powder for 60 minutes while I caught up on some writing. But could I have said the same for the Lexar? Not wanting to give it a temperature shock, after 8 hours of freeze time, I quickly moved it over to the refrigerator. I expected something to fall out like it usually does, but this time my toes went unscathed. I may have felt slightly selfish as I made a hot cup of coffee and sipped from it to check on the card first thing in the morning. As I closed the door, I wondered how people in the Arctic regions keep their memory cards safe from the ice there… Thankfully, she managed to grudgingly stuff the Lexar Professional CFexpress into a tiny space. My better half always complains there’s never enough space in there for everything. Test 2 involved an overnighter inside my sub-zero freezer, which was super crammed with meat, bread, and cheese. Soon after, I grinned as I saw the image and video files still on the card. Almost immediately, the macOS notification popped up asking if I wanted to grant access to the reader. After waiting for it to cool down a bit, I plugged it into the card reader, and I hoped for the best. At this point, I felt I’d already toasted the card in just the first test. I didn’t realize that I’d set the water temperature to 50☌/120☏. “Should I have left this test for the end,” I murmured inside my head as I quiveringly opened the washing machine’s door. I can’t honestly say that I wasn’t worried when I heard those. There was the odd clattering at times, which could just have been the buttons on my jeans. These I washed on a 30-minute cycle that was topped off with a 5-minute spin at 1000rpm. I tossed it in with a full load of my denim. This was taped with some 3M Scotch tape to avoid it from spilling its guts as it was being spun around. The online product spec booklet stated nothing about being water resistant, so the Lexar Professional CFexpress card we received stayed inside its plastic protective case. The closest thing you have to create a vortex inside your home – your washing machine. The 320GB card comes in at a whopping $699.99įirst up, a common scenario, one that I think I’ve done twice with an SD card before (once unintentionally).If you live in Germany, according to the product page, your lifetime limited warranty is limited to 10 years only.Max speeds weren’t getting achieved in multiple tests.Lexar’s reps did offer to replace the card for me, but I haven’t heard back from them since I responded in the mid of December last year. This did cause some stress with my client but nothing significant. A handful of video files couldn’t even be recovered by Lexar’s own recovery software.
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