The issue is that there is no evidence that sending in your Ally for repairs resolves the issue. Plenty of people that have RMA'd have reported on Reddit that their SD cards/readers have failed shortly after being returned. Asus has never reported ...
Based on the posts on Reddit it seems that thermal constraints cannot be the only cause of the reported SD card issues. Too many people are posting that it happened in silent, performance and custom fan modes where the temps are not high enough to c...