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<blockquote data-quote="§am" data-source="post: 58858" data-attributes="member: 9187">Not sure the file corruption statement is true (or not!), but certainly fragmentation is a real life scenario.The advantage with having a good high speed card is though, that as your card becomes more and more fragmented, the better the write speed, the less impact you see on access to the card when taking pics (the system can write faster to the fragmented areas (once found)).Formatting resolves the fragmentation issue.A reason to format within the system you intend to use the card, is that any minor (and I mean absolute minor) discrepancies that the system introduces in the formatting is kept at the system level and in a worse case scenario, the system will still be able to read from this 'malformatted' card and allow you to copy pics off etc.If for some reason a card formatted in say your PC and then introduced to your camera, decides that the format method is bad, then there's a potential that 100s, 1000s of pics you take could potentially be corrupted (even though they apppear Ok as you take the pics), and on transfer, you encounter the corrupt pics, and well, the rest is easy to work out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="§am, post: 58858, member: 9187"] Not sure the file corruption statement is true (or not!), but certainly fragmentation is a real life scenario. The advantage with having a good high speed card is though, that as your card becomes more and more fragmented, the better the write speed, the less impact you see on access to the card when taking pics (the system can write faster to the fragmented areas (once found)). Formatting resolves the fragmentation issue. A reason to format within the system you intend to use the card, is that any minor (and I mean absolute minor) discrepancies that the system introduces in the formatting is kept at the system level and in a worse case scenario, the system will still be able to read from this 'malformatted' card and allow you to copy pics off etc. If for some reason a card formatted in say your PC and then introduced to your camera, decides that the format method is bad, then there's a potential that 100s, 1000s of pics you take could potentially be corrupted (even though they apppear Ok as you take the pics), and on transfer, you encounter the corrupt pics, and well, the rest is easy to work out. [/QUOTE]

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