Guest debully Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 Just formatted the storage card that came with the e200 - the one that says 8Mb on it....SP Task Manager still only reports 6.44M left. I know there's some blurring of the edges when it comes to data storage but not over 1.5 meg surely? TIA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest debully Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 14 views and no replies? Come on! :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cyrilthefish Posted November 24, 2003 Report Share Posted November 24, 2003 thats about right i'm afraid :shock: *Beware, probably dodgy maths ahead* The first part of it is due to memory card manufacturers counting 1MB as being 1000kb not 1024kb. this means the actual physical storage available on a SD card is not 8192kb (8mb) but in fact 7812.5kb (~7.62MB) A lot of the remaining 'missing' space will be taken up by the FAT file system itself. i also remember reading somewhere (though i can't for the life of me remember where) that SD cards have a special secure area on the card for copy-protection and so on (which is why a MMC card has slightly more space than a SD card) which takes up up to 900kb if i remember correctly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deanrh Posted November 25, 2003 Report Share Posted November 25, 2003 plus some memory is used 4 the file system, like on HDDs, u lose about 8MB i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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