Difference between SD and SDHC Cards

[wzix]

Hi,

Im about to buy a camcorder, it says its capable of recording onto either SD or SDHC memory cards, anyone here know what the difference is?

Thanks

[TAKTAK]

SDHC are high capacity SD cards (4gb+ IIRC), some older devices cannot use them.

it's basically a newer standard sort of thing

but it's not back compat with older devices AFAIK

[wzix]

oh right so the only difference is that there bigger ?

[TAKTAK]

and they use a different filesystem, they use fat32 as opposed to fat16, but appart from that...

i'll try and find a link that explains better than i can

edit:
HERE you go

[Mithrandir]

oh right so the only difference is that there bigger ?

Yes one of the things but also as mentioned about filesystem type.
Standard SD cards are only available up to 2gb.
SDHC start from 4gb.


You cannot read a SDHC card in older devices that only support SD.

[wzix]

ah right thanks for the help,

One thing is the Camera Spec which I imagine was written around September last year, lists max storage 8GB SDHC(not supplied), however Ive seen 16GB SDHC cards available, is it that the camera will only recognise upto 8GB, or that at the time of publication the larger 16gb ones werent available and that it will infact be able to use it all?

cheers

[Mithrandir]

ah right thanks for the help,

One thing is the Camera Spec which I imagine was written around September last year, lists max storage 8GB SDHC(not supplied), however Ive seen 16GB SDHC cards available, is it that the camera will only recognise upto 8GB, or that at the time of publication the larger 16gb ones werent available and that it will infact be able to use it all?

cheers

Its probably because of the time it was written and only 8gb was the highest.

I'm pretty sure it'll support 16gb.

[wzix]

yeah that was I think, one of the sites is offering with a 16GB bundle.

Cheers up for the help

Ill put some exciting photo's up of the SD card when it comes :