In all the years I've been shooting digital, I've never had a card fail. For years I carried multiple smaller cards for fear of failure. My logic was if it failed I won't lose too many pictures. I was so fortunate that last year when I got a D7000, I splurged for 3 32 GB Sandisk SDHC Extreme Pros. The camera holds 2, so in full resolution raw I was good for about 2700 pics. I've had the camera for a year and all was good. I've taken 1000's and 1000's of pictures with no issue, well until recently.

The family and I went to Israel. I was shooting my 7000 and my wife was using the D80. After the first week I was up to 1100 pics and BAM!! you guessed it CARD FAILURE!! Despite the truly nauseated feeling, I swapped the card in slot 2 into slot one and kept shooting. I contacted Sandisk support on live chat. I explained what happened and they suggested running Recovery Software. The only problem was I didn't have my laptop, so i would have to wait a week until I got home (and until I could breathe again).

Since the recovery software I have is very old, I downloaded the recommended Rescue Pro Software. Nothing, it couldn't read the card. The good news is it knew there was a card in the slot that it couldn't read. I contacted Sandisk again and they recommended I Contact LC Technologies in Clear Water Florida. So I did. I sent my card overnight on a Thursday. It arrived Friday Morning and by Friday Afternoon James from LC was calling me with the good news, 1000 of my pics were there!!!! I could breathe again!!!!

LC's service was great. The communication, either by phone or email was great. They are competitively priced and they sent me back my card so i could get it warrantied by Sandisk.

I hope I never need LC again, but it's good to know they are out there!!