SD Card and Best Format Setup

[lydiachris]

I don't know if anyone is interested but I have done extensive testing on my XDAIIi with my Kingston Elite Pro 512MB SD Card.

Using Spb Benchmark

http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/benchmark/?en

and softwinter's storage tools

http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html

I have tried formatting my SD Card withmany various differnt set-ups.

I.e. differnt cluster sizes, FAT 16 and FAT 32, back-up FAT or not.

And by using the 'storage card' benchmark option on SPB Benchmark I have found that my Kingston Elte Pro card functions best and fastest by formatting it like this...

FAT16
512 byte Sector Size
64KB Cluster Size
Backup FAT - NO.

Hope this helps some people, maybe other people can try with their makes of storage card and post their results.

The next 'best' format was with..

FAT32
512 byte Sector Size
32KB Cluster Size
Backup FAT - NO

Also another observation I made was if you format the card using the first set up but have

Backup FAT - YES

There is a significant decrease in speed operation.

As I said above I format my cards in my XDAIIi or through my laptops media card reader.

Hope this helps!!
Happy testing

Cheers,
lydiachris

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