Maximum capacity for MicroSD cards?

[isamu99]

Hi. What is the maximum storage capacity on MicroSD cards that the shield will read? 32GB or 64GB? 128GB? I'm thinking of holding out for a 128gb Sandisk.

 

[athomas917]

64gb is the largest I've seen them come in, but I'm sure the 128gb ones are around the corner.

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[Golfdriver97]

Hi. What is the maximum storage capacity on MicroSD cards that the shield will read? 32GB or 64GB? 128GB? I'm thinking of holding out for a 128gb Sandisk.

Welcome to the forums!

SDHC SD cards are limited to 32 GB. SDXC SD cards have a theoretical limit of 2 TB, however, the largest I have seen is 64. I think 128 GB is current maximum for Sd cards, not micro.

 

[isamu99]

thanks

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

SHIELD will support 64gb cards. Any higher and I can't say for sure.

 

[Ozy311]

SHIELD will support 64gb cards. Any higher and I can't say for sure.

The Verge said that any microSD over 32GB requires being formatted NTFS via a PC. Is this true? Does this mean that the 32GB or smaller are just normal FAT32?

 

[Kevin OQuinn]

The Verge said that any microSD over 32GB requires being formatted NTFS via a PC. Is this true? Does this mean that the 32GB or smaller are just normal FAT32?

I don't have a smaller capacity here to test with, unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure that it's a limitation of the file system though, so what you said would be true. Don't quote me on that, though. I have no way to test.

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[fm123]

So it's possible to move apps to the SD card? Before I go buy a card I wanted to find out.

 

[fm123]

Well turns out with the new update you can move some apps and some data. I was able to move Asphalt 8 and Madden almost completely to SD card. The app of Bard's Tale, but not most of the data. Freed up a lot of space. This is with a 32 GB class 10 card.