I have formatted an SD card with a fat32 system twice in an hour for first time since I purchased it.?

Question

Do this formatting pose any damage to the life or health of the memory card??

Answer 1

All formatting does it write data to the SD card, just like normal usage does.



A 'quick format' just erases the table of data that tells the computer where stuff is, so it looks blank to the computer but the data can still be recovered with something like Recuva.



A 'full format' writes a 0 to the entire drive.



SD cards do have a limited number of 'writes' before they wear it, but it's well over 100 thousand and you'll never hit the limit unless you're constantly writing data all day every day.

Answer 2

You can format SD card with AOMEI Partition Assistant. It is a great partition manger that can help you deal with many problems with your hard drive, flash drive, SD card, or other memory card.

Answer 3

Always perform a quick format (format Z: /FS:Fat32 /Q).  A full format attempts to read every sector in an effort to identify bad sectors.  Because the memory card controller performs transparent fault management, bad sectors are never found by error checking programs.

Answer 4

Probably. I have a raspberry pi 2, I still use the 16GB SD card I purchased with it 2 years ago. Pretty much every few weeks I format it at least 2 or 3 times. I have never noticed much performance hit even for the age of the card.

Answer 5

I'd even suggest you "deep format" it instead of just "fast formatting" it. Deep formatting checks and rechecks the several memory blocks on the card and excludes probably damaged ones from the file system, so that's the even safer way to format a memory card, and that's what I usually do before using a new card.



After that, you can use "fast formatting" or "erase all", which is basically the same on a used card.

Answer 6

not so's you could notice, no

Answer 7

No, you can do that several hundred - if not several thousand - times before there will be issues.