Android and the 64 billion bytes question.

[geoffrey mendelson]

On 10/10/2013 8:50 AM, Ira Abramov wrote:
> I also thought splitting the card into two 32G partitions could save me
> from loosing more than one partition at once, if anything bad happens.

Unless it is a software error, it is unlikely that if one partition goes
on the card, the other will survive. Remember that memory cards are not
like disk drives. Data is not stored sequentially, but randomly and the
hardware keeps track of the location of it. This is so that sectors that
are often written such as the FAT (or the equivalent in that particular
file system) do not die quickly from being written to too often.

Geoff.

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