Xm2 Sd Card Capacity at DVinfo.net

Mario Lauria · June 10th, 2003, 01:16 PM

Hi all,

when the XM2 is connected to the PC it is "seen" as a disk drive by the system.

Taking a look at the properties of this "drive" I noted that the capacity shown is much less than the card's.

For example the 8 megs supplied with the cam is reported as a
6,39 MB and a 64 megs as a 59,3 MB.

Has somebody noted the same thing?

What do you think about?

Ciao
M. Lauria

Alex Knappenberger · June 10th, 2003, 01:21 PM

It's because of windows...

Just like how when you get a 60GB HDD, it's really only like 56GB..

Mario Lauria · June 10th, 2003, 02:40 PM

I agree with you for Windows problems....

If your 60 GB drive is reported as 56 GB there's a 6.6 % loss over capacity.

In the case of the 64 MB card the loss is almost the same (7.3%)
In the case of the 8 MB card the loss is more than 20%.

Somebody told me that Multimedia cards have a different behaviour.

For example a 8MB Multimedia is reported as 7.55 Mb.

Anyway all this, is not a problem.

This place is wonderful to talk everything about camcorders.

My 64 MB SD card makes almost 100 pictures at full resolution, that's enough.

Ciao

June 10th, 2003, 01:16 PM	#1
Mario Lauria New Boot Join Date: May 2003 Location: Taranto Italy Posts: 14	Xm2 Sd Card Capacity Hi all, when the XM2 is connected to the PC it is "seen" as a disk drive by the system. Taking a look at the properties of this "drive" I noted that the capacity shown is much less than the card's. For example the 8 megs supplied with the cam is reported as a 6,39 MB and a 64 megs as a 59,3 MB. Has somebody noted the same thing? What do you think about? Ciao M. Lauria

June 10th, 2003, 02:40 PM	#3
Mario Lauria New Boot Join Date: May 2003 Location: Taranto Italy Posts: 14	Alex I agree with you for Windows problems.... If your 60 GB drive is reported as 56 GB there's a 6.6 % loss over capacity. In the case of the 64 MB card the loss is almost the same (7.3%) In the case of the 8 MB card the loss is more than 20%. Somebody told me that Multimedia cards have a different behaviour. For example a 8MB Multimedia is reported as 7.55 Mb. Anyway all this, is not a problem. This place is wonderful to talk everything about camcorders. My 64 MB SD card makes almost 100 pictures at full resolution, that's enough. Ciao

June 10th, 2003, 01:21 PM	#2
Alex Knappenberger High School Student Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Canton, Ohio, USA Posts: 609	It's because of windows... Just like how when you get a 60GB HDD, it's really only like 56GB..