Re: [Simply Computers] SD Cards ReFormat

 

Formatting only writes to the MBR, not the entire drive.

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On 2011-05-30 7:01 AM, tom wrote:
> I gather that it is not a good idea to defrag SD cards but what happens every time you re format as I do when I finish downloading the one in my camera? How long would it be expected to last?
> Tom
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> --- In simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com, David Ron<david.m.ron@...> wrote:
>> Not just that, but they would also have to write over the entire drive.
>> There is circuitry to spread write operations over the entire drive so a
>> single file or folder can be rewritten far more times than that.
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>> - David
>> On May 26, 2011 11:11 AM, "Bill Aycock"<billaycock@...> wrote:
>>> Why should we worry? To do this, one would have to write 55 times a day,
>>> every day, for 5 years.
>>> Bill--W4BSG
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>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "barry"<michiguru@...>
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>>> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 11:09 AM
>>> Subject: [Simply Computers] SD Cards
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>>>> Is it true that SD cards can only be written 100K times?
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>>>> Thanks.
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