Sandisk Memory stick

John King

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Having just had 2 rather elderly memory sticks fail on me I bought 2 x 64 gig SanDisk ones to replace them @£6.99 each from Sainsburys. Cheap as chips actually. (the old ones held nothing really important). These new ones are USB3 type and was surprised when I went to save images it politely told me surprisingly, though that I would have to format them first. I have never ever had to format a memory stick before - yes with CD's a long while ago, but never with memory sticks. Is this something new? Has it got something to do with them being USB 3 type?
There was also a facility to encrypt whatever I stored on them, but had to download software to do so - I declined. Probably OK for business use but I don't need the stick to be encrypted

Yes they are damn fast to store images or get them to open up, but why the formatting first?
 
Thanks Ian, but there was no explanation on the card to say why this must be done. Sorry but I failed my mind reading A level!

Is the change of Fat 32 to NTFS because of the capacity of the stick or the USB3 facility or something else?
 
Format them to NTFS and you will be fine.
Usually they come with some backup software on a separate partition but to be honest you dont need that
 
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