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J-J
Joined: May 10, 2004
Posts: 268
From: Nottingham, UK
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I bought a Sony 512mb M2 card off ebay, i checked with the seller first and he confirmed it was genuine.
It arrived but when i put it in my phone, even after reformatting it, it is only showing 455mb as available.
I contacted the seller about this and he said it was down to "they don't have the full capacity as specified, they have archives and there own floder"
Is this right? it struck me as strange that a 512mb card would be missing such a large percentage of its memory (about 10%) as standard? |
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BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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From: Kamino (wish it would be Lund)
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yeah 455 mb is ok, u dont get the full mb free. format it, then maybe u get a bit more mb
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Sammy_boy
Joined: Mar 31, 2004
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From: Staffordshire, United Kingdom
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It's farly normal I'm afraid, I recently bought a couple of 1Gb Sandisk Ultra-II mem sticks, and with nothing on them it stated there was 969Mb free, so some is taken up with system files etc.
"All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke
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BobaFett
Joined: Jan 06, 2004
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there must be free space for the card sw and next to it, backup is stored twice on every card, so that takes space too
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tranced
Joined: Jan 19, 2006
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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it is ok. even with the Hard Disks. i have a 1gb mspd and it shows 949mb 
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masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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card software? backup stored twice? never heard of those (ever) but anyway...
this question is answered in the Memory Stick FAQ
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Posted: 2007-04-27 13:28
jay0726 | 
