Space on 8GB card? I bought two of these, and I have one on the way. (Transcend 8 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card).. My question is this- One of the ones I got has a 7.31GB capacity, the other one is 7.46GB capacity. I realize that sometimes the formatting takes up some space, I did not realize it would be different from card to card though, or take up that much space. I wonder what my third one will be?What capacity are other people seeing? Space on 8GB card? I bought two of these, and I have one on the way. (Transcend 8 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card).. My question is this- One of the ones I got has a 7.31GB capacity, the... » Read More Space on 8GB card? I bought two of these, and I have one on the way. (Transcend 8 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card).. My question is this- One of the ones I got has a 7.31GB capacity, the other one is 7.46GB capacity. I realize that sometimes the formatting takes up some space, I did not realize it would be different from card to card though, or take up that much space. I wonder what my third one will be?What capacity are other people seeing? « Show Less
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"Pawel says: just format and u get empty card "I did format (on my PC) and I got 7.31 and 7.46 GB on those cards as I said in original post. By "empty" do you mean 8GB? That's what I was wondering..
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Morlok says: "I never gave it much thought so I checked mine. I have an 8GB Kingston elite pro card which actually has a 7.49GB capacity."Yup, that makes sense. I checked out my third one and it has the same as the other one, 7.46GB- so it must just be the space needed to format. It must be like regular Fat32 HD in a PC, (or NTFS for that matter), they both take up quite a bit of space just for the format.
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that doesn't explain the difference between the two identical cards, read OP........
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Formatting a Flash Drive (like formatting a hard drive on a PC) does two things: (1) removes the index to all files and (2) removes references to bad sectors. In all likelihood, this is why one of the memory cards reports a smaller size
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You're not losing all that space to any "formatting", you're just prey to marketing and confusing computer lingo. Hard drive manufacturers dictate a 1GB as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes whereas Windows calculates 1GB it as 1,073,741,824. Technically speaking, windows version of GB really should be referred to as GiB rather than GB. A 500GB hard drive sold by Maxtor/WD/Seagate etc. will show in windows as 465.5 GB. Just as these 8GB cards show as 7.44GB. For simplifying, you can pretty much divide the stated capacity by 1.074 to see what you're actually going to get.
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I never gave it much thought so I checked mine. I have an 8GB Kingston elite pro card which actually has a 7.49GB capacity.
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i don't understand the20 mb/sec. http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdhc says class 2, 4, 6 only do 2, 4, and 6 mb/sec. the link to the sandisk card shows class 6 but does say 20mb
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It's a Transcend SDHC card, but I just noticed that they're selling the Class 6 Kingston for only $89 now... so that's pretty tempting too.
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I have a 4gb sandisk in mine, it will slow down access times of pics and songs but thats to be expected. I have never seen an 8gb card.
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Interesting. I never even knew that standard SD (not SDHC) were available up to 8 gig. I thought that they maxed out at 2 gigs. good to know. Wish the thing DID read SDHC at the card slot. Still, it's a pretty nice device.
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Hi and thanks for your question.You can use a 2, 8 or even a 16 gigabyte SD memory card. Right now I'm using a 32 gig card.
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Separate SD card. I bought a transcend 16GB through amazon for a good price and I've never had an issue with running out of space
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I also use the 4GB Transcend SD card with no problems. It doesn't look like it is supposed to work according to the specs, but it does.
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Yup, just put a 32GB one in mine. Only shows 29.something gigs, a few short of full capacity, as do all cards and flash drives I wish I knew why and it drives me kooky, hee. But yes, it works. So there you go. Update: Please take note, previously I'd answered that someone informed me the he's using a 64GB card on this unit. He's since informed me that he had mistakenly posted on the wrong thread and intended that info for another player. So I've edited my answer. That said, the info on the 32GB card still stands, as I'm personally using one in my Evo. Cheers
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Regrettably, the D50 was made before they came out with High Capacity SD cards. SDHD cards are basically any card that is over 2 GB. So a 32 GB card won't work. But I have found that 2 GB is enough. You can get lots and lots of pictures on it at standard or even high resolution. Also, most any brand of SD card is fine, and this is because you can snap pictures as fast as a film SLR. If you have a higher speed card you most likely won't notice any difference in recycle speed. I find that Sandisk cards are of excellent quality. So if you like Transcend, just find one that is 2 GB or less. Regrettably, the D50 was made before they came out with High Capacity SD cards. SDHD cards are basically any card that is over 2 GB. So a 32 GB card won't work. But I have found that 2 GB is enough. You can get lots and lots of pictures on it at standard or even high resolution. Also, most any brand of SD card is fine, and this is because you can snap pictures as fast as a film SLR. If you have a higher speed card you most likely won't notice any difference in recycle speed. I find that Sandisk cards are of excellent quality. So if you like Transcend, just find one that is 2 GB or less.
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That question is far beyond my level of expertise. I'm using the card in a 9 year old camera that can't read anything larger 8Gb and I couldn't find any 4Gb cards locally so I've put 2 8 Gb cards in the adapter. I disengage one card until I fill one and then disengage the full card and engage the second card. That works well for me. Sorry I couldn't be more help.
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this question got me thinking and looking a bit. I have 2 Contour cameras (a Roam and a Roam2) I bought a 32GB card for the Roam when I got it and just tried it in the newer camera. the card light flashed red when I turned it on. I looked through the manual to find a 32GB card is the maximum and I needed to format the card. once I did it was fine.so yeah. 32GB is the max and it'll take SDSC and SDHC cards.
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I put a two gig memory card in mine. It was kinda on accident. I bought I 1 gig on ebay and they accientally sent me a 2 gig. So I decide to try it. It works great and have no probs yet.
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When I bought my camera I bought a Transcend 32 Gb class 10 sdhc flash memory,thru Amazon for $24.00. Lots of storage and I love it. You need the 10 rating. I don't think I will ever have to buy another one. Hope this helps
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I haven't used the extra SDXC card in a while, but I have used a 32 gb SDHC and my usualy 64 gb SDXC without any problems in the past. If I remember correctly I had to go through the menu and make sure to format the cards before using them. Also, make sure you download the latest firmware from the Canon website it fixes problems with SDXC and a few other issues. I just got a 128 gb SDXC for a long trip I'll be taking and don't anticipate any problems. All my cards are Class 10 and my SDXC cards are both PNY
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I have one of the first builds off the line which is the 4gB model. As I want to use it as a portable recording machine I needed more space, so I picked up an 8 gB SDHC card fo $40 Can/US. I originally used a 2 gB thumb drive, but that fills up when recording hours of audio at 44 khz/16 bit. Also, I like the card as its like a mini-hardrive - it doesn't stick out of the side like a thumb drive. Not sure how much the 8gB model is compared to the 4Gb.. but with expandable memory so cheap..
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In case anyone reads this.... I am using this camera with a 64gb Compact Flash card with no problems. (Transcend) I have not tried with a 64gb SDHC card. However, I am using a 32gb SDHC card in at the same time with no problems.