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On 28 Mar 2005 16:22:16 -0800, DW wrote:
>
>Nikki Casali wrote:
>> Your explanation makes it sound like the whole SD card is completely
>> rewritten, 1GB in total for example, even for a byte change.
>My understanding is, according to what the engineers tell me is
>the entire data on the device is re-written every time there is a save.
>
>So you get a defragmented saving every time it is written to the
>device, be it internal ROM, CF, and SD. It's the way the device saves
>the files in electronic memory.
>
>The engineers explain that cards like SD are not like the hard drive on
>your computer which need defragmenting.
>
>The source for this some enginers I know who worked companies like HP.
Right...
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On 28 Mar 2005 16:22:16 -0800, DW wrote:
>
>Nikki Casali wrote:
>> Your explanation makes it sound like the whole SD card is completely
>> rewritten, 1GB in total for example, even for a byte change.
>My understanding is, according to what the engineers tell me is
>the entire data on the device is re-written every time there is a save.
>
>So you get a defragmented saving every time it is written to the
>device, be it internal ROM, CF, and SD. It's the way the device saves
>the files in electronic memory.
>
>The engineers explain that cards like SD are not like the hard drive on
>your computer which need defragmenting.
>
>The source for this some enginers I know who worked companies like HP.
Right...
--
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal lobotomy.