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Old 01-17-2018, 05:24 PM
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Originally Posted by shoeripoff6 View Post
Flash memory isnt like a hard drive and it will depend on how the software makes the deletion. A simple image erase will often just take the file out by the usual hdd type method of deleting the first character and taking it out of the file allocation table. However flash memory is allocated into blocks which can be low level formatted by the card firmware when all bytes are physically set back to 255- all bits high. This is a proper deletion of data. A proper format MIGHT use this card firmware based method
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