It's what I suspect tho' I have no more than anecdotal evidence.
The average P&S user just deletes singly or in groups and never
formats. In fact, the format command can be hard to find on many low
end cameras. Or they delete from their computer or even do deletions
in a card reader. Bad behaviour5.
At the school where I work, the instructions for a student using a
Nikon D40x read - "Insert SD card - format it." We don't seem to have
problems there either.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 08/01/2010, at 12:41 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> 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.
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