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Low level formatting of an SD card
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 1659947" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>I don't know if there's any truth to what you're reading or not (I agree…sounds like BS).<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>What I can says is…if you "talk" to enough "various people"…you can get just about any possible answer to just about any possible question. Which of course means MANY of those answers will be wrong…and only a few (or one) answer will be correct.</p><p></p><p>What I can tell you is this. If you start (for example) with a bare unformatted 32gig SD card…format it…and let's say it formats to 30gig. Now you have 30gig of storage space on this SD card.</p><p></p><p>Now let's say you use this SD card for a while. Saving & deleting files over & over again. And you decide you want to reformat the SD card again. If you reformat the SD card…and again it formats to 30gig (same as it did the first time)…what is the concern?</p><p></p><p>If the SD card (the 2nd time around) only formatted to say 28gig (instead of 30gig). Then I can see having a concern. Since there's a 2gig difference. But I'm guessing this isn't happening.</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 1659947, member: 56379"] I don't know if there's any truth to what you're reading or not (I agree…sounds like BS).;) What I can says is…if you "talk" to enough "various people"…you can get just about any possible answer to just about any possible question. Which of course means MANY of those answers will be wrong…and only a few (or one) answer will be correct. What I can tell you is this. If you start (for example) with a bare unformatted 32gig SD card…format it…and let's say it formats to 30gig. Now you have 30gig of storage space on this SD card. Now let's say you use this SD card for a while. Saving & deleting files over & over again. And you decide you want to reformat the SD card again. If you reformat the SD card…and again it formats to 30gig (same as it did the first time)…what is the concern? If the SD card (the 2nd time around) only formatted to say 28gig (instead of 30gig). Then I can see having a concern. Since there's a 2gig difference. But I'm guessing this isn't happening. - Nick [/QUOTE]
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