One other note; the drive seems to come pre-formatted (or maybe I
reformatted it in the *ist D, I can't recall for sure) FAT32 with 8 KByte
clusters. Discussion traffic on the DPreview site suggests, and my
experience with high resolution audio recording on the Pocket PC confirms,
that larger clusters lead to higher write performance (fewer FAT entries to
keep track of) at the tradeoff of slightly lower storage space usage
efficiency. But given the sizes of the files the *ist D creates, this
'downside' is a nit. I was successfully able to reformat the 4GB drive to
32KB clusters using a Pocket PC utility called Flash Format.
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