March 14, 2009   1 note
pauliophonic: Why does my SD card’s capacity seem to get lower and lower over time? Is this a normal thing that I’m just noticing now? I used to be able to fit nearly 130 highest quality RAW files on my Canon Xsi with my two gig card. Now with a low level format, it says I only have room for 107. What is happening here? You may want to try a disk format from a PC first to write zeroes to the drive. This should basically make it a clean slate with no formatting, then try the low-level again. If that doesn’t work, my only other guess would be that since it’s a solid state drive, they do only have a finite number of writes, so it could be that the capacitors are wearing out and unwritable.

pauliophonic:

Why does my SD card’s capacity seem to get lower and lower over time? Is this a normal thing that I’m just noticing now?

I used to be able to fit nearly 130 highest quality RAW files on my Canon Xsi with my two gig card. Now with a low level format, it says I only have room for 107.

What is happening here?

You may want to try a disk format from a PC first to write zeroes to the drive. This should basically make it a clean slate with no formatting, then try the low-level again. If that doesn’t work, my only other guess would be that since it’s a solid state drive, they do only have a finite number of writes, so it could be that the capacitors are wearing out and unwritable.

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    disk format from a PC first...the drive. This should basically make it a clean slate
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