Care and Maintenance of Compact Flash Cards at DVinfo.net

Andrew Stone · August 31st, 2011, 06:54 PM

Hello Convergent Design People,

Can you let us know if there is a routine we should be using other than a simple card reformat in the nanoFlash to keep our cards in optimal shape for high bitrate recording.

I am thinking of occurrences where one may have deleted files from the card from a device other than the nanoFlash or not performed a reformat of the cards upon reinsertion in the nanoFlash.

It has been stated numerous times that one should always reformat your Compact Flash cards on the NanoFlash once they have been used on a computer system but if people haven't been doing this religiously is there a more thorough reformatting that can be done with another application to keep running as the should?

Dan Keaton · August 31st, 2011, 07:47 PM

Dear Andrew,

That is a very interesting question.

All one needs to do is to reformat the card in the nanoFlash.

So no matter what happened before, our Format in the nanoFlash will set up the card for proper operation in the nanoFlash.

Andrew Stone · August 31st, 2011, 08:35 PM

Thanks Dan for your quick and definitive reply.

August 31st, 2011, 06:54 PM	#1
Andrew Stone Major Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 975	Care and Maintenance of Compact Flash Cards Hello Convergent Design People, Can you let us know if there is a routine we should be using other than a simple card reformat in the nanoFlash to keep our cards in optimal shape for high bitrate recording. I am thinking of occurrences where one may have deleted files from the card from a device other than the nanoFlash or not performed a reformat of the cards upon reinsertion in the nanoFlash. It has been stated numerous times that one should always reformat your Compact Flash cards on the NanoFlash once they have been used on a computer system but if people haven't been doing this religiously is there a more thorough reformatting that can be done with another application to keep running as the should?

August 31st, 2011, 07:47 PM	#2
Dan Keaton Inner Circle Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Augusta Georgia Posts: 5,421	Re: Care and Maintenance of Compact Flash Cards Dear Andrew, That is a very interesting question. All one needs to do is to reformat the card in the nanoFlash. So no matter what happened before, our Format in the nanoFlash will set up the card for proper operation in the nanoFlash. __________________ Dan Keaton Augusta Georgia

August 31st, 2011, 08:35 PM	#3
Andrew Stone Major Player Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Vancouver, Canada Posts: 975	Re: Care and Maintenance of Compact Flash Cards Thanks Dan for your quick and definitive reply.