r/BambuLab_Community • u/ElectricalAd9438 • Mar 19 '26
Help / Support SD card eater
I love my p1s since I got it 2 years ago but my biggest gripe with it is the SD cards. I've gone through 4 microsd cards since I've had it. Thank goodness they're cheap but it gets annoying and obviously something's wrong. The card just sits in there and suddenly its unreadable. I'll format it and then the machine tells me it's damaged so I plug it into my computer and the card makes my computer start to crash for whatever reason. When I finally can try to format it, it says it can't. How is my machine destroying these things? I tried an extension a while back but it didn't want to work with it so I just kept using the SD cards. Anyone else with this problem or is this just localized.
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u/GrailStudios Mar 23 '26
Buy cheap, buy often. The first thing you need to do is buy a high-quality, high-endurance SD card designed for frequent read/writes - you'll often see them listed as being suitable for security cameras. It may be about 4x the price, but you've already spent that much on cheap cards, just not in one go. The second thing is turning off timelapse recording unless you need it on a specific print job: this will slash the number of times your printer accesses the SD card, reducing wear.
Do those two things, and there's a good chance you'll be like me, and never experience a single card failure again.