http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/2009/07/31/always-reformat-your-memory-card-in-between-uses/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:08:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/2009/07/31/always-reformat-your-memory-card-in-between-uses/#comment-727 me Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:29:07 +0000 http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/?p=808#comment-727 you are shortening the life of your memory cards by doing that. flash cards are only good for so many writes, and reformatting uses up lots of those cycles (yes, even allocation realignment). You won't get corrupted photos anyway, a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0 regardless of how many times it's overwritten. File corruption can only occur when the magnetic remnants are too weak to tell the difference between a one and a zero. Continuously formatting will get you there a lot faster. you are shortening the life of your memory cards by doing that. flash cards are only good for so many writes, and reformatting uses up lots of those cycles (yes, even allocation realignment). You won't get corrupted photos anyway, a 1 is a 1 and a 0 is a 0 regardless of how many times it's overwritten. File corruption can only occur when the magnetic remnants are too weak to tell the difference between a one and a zero. Continuously formatting will get you there a lot faster.

]]> http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/2009/07/31/always-reformat-your-memory-card-in-between-uses/#comment-213 John Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:33:14 +0000 http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/?p=808#comment-213 Oh, I need all the luck I can get...;) Oh, I need all the luck I can get…;)

]]> http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/2009/07/31/always-reformat-your-memory-card-in-between-uses/#comment-211 Laurie ferri Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:08:26 +0000 http://johnbatdorff.com/blog/?p=808#comment-211 Great advice. Thank you. Good luck with the fish! Great advice. Thank you. Good luck with the fish!

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