Trying to recover images is made very difficult if the card is
fragmented by erasure. I would think very large cards would also incur
some performance problems if they were used to the point that they were
trying to recover space made available by erasure. FAT is extremely
efficient for sequential access when everything is put at the end of the
used space/beginning of free space. It's very inefficient if the free
space is fragmented. Apart from that I don't know of usage problems
that might be occasioned by fragmentation... except for the possibility
of encountering bugs in the seldom used code handling fragmented free space.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> This one bothers me somewhat - do people here have much history of
> card failure?
> At the risk of putting the curse on myself, I've never had a card die
> on me in use. I only use Sandisk and Lexar (and a Transcend worked
> fine) and I rarely erase while shooting - IFF I've forgotten a spare.
> I don't connect my camera to the computer (damn Oly for their useless
> upgrade routine) preferring to keep devices quarantined.
> And I format the card in the camera before reuse.
> Only problem I've ever had was with a brand new Kingston SD that
> wouldn't even start and a Tomato SD that the Leica dealer gave me but
> now won't work in anything.
> Are most problems due to fragmentation that I simply avoid by constant
> reformatting?
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 08/01/2010, at 5:14 AM, AS wrote:
>
>> http://store.lexar.com/imagerescue3/
>>
>>
>
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