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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I agree, there is no reason that they couldn't. But, assuming books get frequently loaded and deleted, a 4, 8, 16, whatever GB card formatted as a single 2GB partition will last longer than a 2GB card since each storage block will be written fewer times.
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I don't think so. If you create a 2GB partition on a 4 or 8GB card, the exact same amount of space will be taken up as would be on a 2GB card, starting from the beginning. The rest is just unallocated space, never to be used. It's not the case that creating a 2GB partition on an 8GB card will 'smear' the partition over the entire card.
If this had been the case, you would indeed have been right: such a '2GB' card would last longer because of spreading the write cycles around.