Very informative. I searched all over the net and couldn't find the answers I was looking for in regards to how much expandable memory my phone could expand to until I watched this video .
10:01 No, what's happening is that those phones are able to format a drive using an out of (strict) spec FAT32, not exFAT (also called FAT64). FAT32 is limited to 32GB by MS for practicality reasons (and also to push NTFS), but it can actually access a drive up to 2TB using 512KB (yes, kilobyte) sectors or 16TB using 4MB (yes, megabyte) sectors, which is fine for large files, but then any file smaller than the sector size will always take up an entire sector EACH (until you defrag the partition). Also, any file which takes up a full sector, plus 1 byte, will take up 2 full sectors. so, if you have a 4MB (4,194,304 bytes) sector size, and you have a file which is 4,194,305 bytes, it will physically take up 8MB of space. MS is limited to 4096byte sectors to limit that fragmentation. Any device which correctly supports FAT32 will read the out of spec format just fine, including Windows XP machines (not older, though), you just need a formatter which will create an out of spec partition.
Really informative video, but a simple illustration or table or graph that says what format works and what doesn't work will be much easier for people to grasp, instead of pure listening. I watched twice to fully understand this video.
Jason K I agree with you.A table would be much better, although I understood what he said the first time. Maybe because of my previous knowledge of this subject.
No Name In short: All cards work, though in some phones/devices you’ll have to format them as FAT32 and consequently won’t be able to store files larger than 4GB.
Off topic slightly here but isn't it amazing how much flash memory fits on something as small as a microSD card the literal size of my fingernail and how cheap it is (256gb for ~$22 in 2022).
Finally a guy who's capable of explain such an important issue in an understandable way, congratulations Gary, and looking forward to see the logical lecture: How FAT, FAT32, NTFS and ex-FAT handle the file sizes in the same pedagogical way you made this one.
This video was really informative! Been a while since the last time i saw such a straightforward, simple and valuable video in just under 15 minutes! Great work!
i study computer science and what i can tell you is that FAT32 will and should work well with sd cards up to 500gb max as what my teacher told me. just because it's called FAT32 doesnt mean it can only handle 32Gb that's a load of bull. 32 was meant for 32bit if im not mistaken and it will very well support drives higher than 32gb. limitation: -file size creation (like videos and so on that's why it's only 2 hours max in some devices for videos and so on) -the amount of sub folders that you can create within them. (i forgot how many but its not that much) -get's fragmentation problems and becomes inefficient with bigger drives (if its more than 500gb or more than 320gb stick with NTFS or extendedFAT) -security: if you have lots of data on a drive that is bigger than the said drives then you might run into some problems like lost or corrupt data. that's why microsoft made the NTFS because it's safer more efficient and is quicker.-less fragmentation on hard disks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- advantages: -compatability -simpler ---(i think)--- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -FAT32 is ideal for small drives as they need less tables to operate them from what my teacher said its great for small memory devices like sd cards and flash drives. -note: i formatted one of my extra drives with FAT32 that's a 320gb drive and it works FINE. no problems just defragment it when things start to slow down. i did it for funziez -extra note: playstation3's uses FAT32 from factory and works fine and you see those sporting 500gb these days. well this is a long comment.. *drops virtual potato* :D
I lost 3 hours of footage because I didn't know my old camera didn't recognize exFAT from my 64Gb card and kept writing over older files. Very sad, but now I am improving my knowledge about that. Going back to my 32Gb card. It should be noted that sometimes it appears to be working, but it is in fact doing something strange, like overwriting it's own data over and over, so from now on I always follow the manufacturer's advice.
Bought the same for my z5, sadly with the marshmallows update they stripped the function to adopt the SD as internal. thankfully there I was able to adopt it but it is a little complicated and officially not supported
, as of a few days ago, for less than $20 & in a non-open market country (meaning, different from america), i was still able to get a 128gb micro sd sanDisk. for $60 i'm now seeing deals for a half terabyte..
To enable exFAT support on Linux for distribution that use apt as package manager like Ubuntu you can just open a Terminal and give this command: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils Reboot the system and you're done, you now have full exFAT support on your Linux system and you're able to mount, read and write removable drives. You're welcome
Yep, the Linux foundation can't quite include exFAT and NTFS support built in for legal reasons, but of course people have reverse engineered drivers for those filesystems
What I don't understand is why the Android phone manufacturers simply didn't go with an open format such as ext4 for the larger SD cards; it would have been *free* for them to do so. Ditto for other equipment manufacturers, such as TV, photocopiers, etc. The only roadblock would have been Windows' current inability to recognize this filesystem, but AFAIK, with the right driver added, Windows should be able to recognize it as well as exFAT.
You've only done half the job here Read off and Write to these SDXC cards that have been reformatted and tell many if you get any failures. Also, do you get full storage as shown on card?
That's the most useful video I've seen in years. I couldn't read my 128gb card from my phone in my win XP PC. This explains everything. I hate the fact that everyone has to pay Microsoft though.
"... Compression wrecks performance." Depends which CPU you use. Input-Output is faster; smaller file sizes. Using a fast, multi-threaded CPU, makes things faster again.
Great Video and information, I agree with Jason K about how a graph would certainly expedite the knowledge crystallization. I have never had any issues with swapping in higher capacity cards in my Motorola Droid2,, Droid4 and Wifeys SG5. Until I upgrade my phone again I have been granted a temporary reprieve with the Droid Turbo (64GB and sans MicroSD slot).
It is best to format micro sd card in FAT32 format before using. I current having problem when I transferred videos/pictures from internal storage in my phone to the external micro sd card.Some of the videos/pictures are corrupted. Do you know why? It is because I dont format the SD card correctly?
but did you test if those phones with 32GB limit will write any data when the that limit is reached despite the card being formatted has more capacity. i remember vaguely an mp3 player, back when mp3 players were a thing, when i bought a higher capacity storage it just never read the songs beyond that or when it did get to a song that just passed the threshold, the player just crashed. it was a phillips or sandisk player.
formatting my external 8tb hdd to exfat, made my 2015 Samsung JS8500 4k tv to fully recognize it. I thought my tv can't recognize anything past 2TB or less. I'm so happy I don't have to shop for another tv for a very long time.
I bought a 32gb microsdhc. for my camcorder made a video but when I install it into my phone there's no sound but sound when I play it on the camcorder I have a android Samsung prime so I can't send it anywhere cause no sound could you help me
No, it's not just not to confuse customers. Samsung actually restricts the size of the cards you can put into their phones for some reason. My last phone could read a 256 GB card but not a 400 GB card. Which is incidentally the limit of my current phone, even though 512 GB cards were already a thing when I bought it.
MY Samsung MicroSD 256 GB does not take large files. For instance, instead of copying a large music file from my PC to micro SD with many albums in it, I had to do one album at a time. Even then, many times the PC would show that the files were being copied to the MicroSD, but when I opened it, the file was empty. It's very frustrating and time consuming.
this is highly relatable with me encountering problems a 128GB micro SD card working on my new nintendo 3ds portable. had to do some research on this and look for a workaround to format the sd card with fat32 :I
Can you help? Why does my Samsung SkyPro wipe the micro SD card when I power down EVEN when the card has been unmounted first? Have not been able to find answer on Google.
I'd like to see an informative video about sd speeds too. How important it actually is on a smartphone if i am going to use it only for photos and music or if its going to be used for apps too. do the apps run slower in a slower sd etc .
So, you can only format it to FAT32 on a phone? I got the gyst of it early on, was waiting for you to show a link on were I can format the ExFAT to a FAT 32.
Is the writing speed the most important factor when looking for my first SD card for my smartphone (Nokia 7+) I want it for saving video files, ie from the camera app. Currently it seems the maximum film(s) I can save is about 30-40 minutes only .... Perhaps made up from 10 short clips. If I am near home I can easily transfer these to my computer then start filming again, but if I am further away I'll need more memory. Have you are preferred card for early 2020 please ? Thanks !
Why does the SD association define what filesystem I can put on my sdcard? Am I forbidden to put my own onto it? Do they license filesystems as "SD card compatible"?
I'm just a bit confused. If FAT32 functions with max file sizes of 4GB then how can you use a 128GB USB? That is beyond the working range of FAT32. Shouldn't any device formatted in FAT32 be read as 4GB storages?
Actually The original SD could support up to 4GB as well As there being SDHC 4GB cards. The SDHC format phased out the SD format while the 4GB SD theoretical maximum was reached. Also SDHC has a naturally higher transfer speed VS SD so that was another factor why you almost only saw 4GB SDHC cards.
I used a 256gb card in my HTC One M9 Plus and it corrupted all mi picture and videos. They all went blank and unreadable by anything like other phones and computers. Whether I used the camera or download media files, once I start to view them they get corrupt.
Am I right in assuming that even though a FAT32 card has a 4GB limit on the size of a file stored on it - if a file that you want saved is larger than that size the card will still save the data, but it will store it in multiple files?
Sometimes, for new sdcard can be format type is FAT32 because old or new phone can read for FAT32 only. For old phone only said up to 32GB and new phone said up to 64/128/256/512GB or more. For old smartphone user, you can use more than 32GB with format to FAT32. Example for my phone is HUAWEI Y3II, manufacture sdcard up to 32GB. But i put my 128GB sdcard to my phone, and suprising it read it.
Yes, and it does when you select "expand internal storage" in the phone's storage settings (note that doing this deletes all data currently on the card), well, either ext4 or f2fs by default. Sadly there is no option to just normally use ext4 without rooting (at least wasn't on Android 8.1.0 where I tested), even if you would know you would never need to use the card in Windows. I think it's stupid that Android artificially limits what file systems you can use, even when there is support for a whole host of them in Android.
Nice video. I thought I'd share my experience. Now I have no idea if this works for exfat but I had a usb drive formated in ntfs. While android didn't show it as recognized, I was able to read and write to it using es file explorer.
I once plugged in a normal USB hub connected to a power bank (just to power the HDD), a 2 TB NTFS HDD, mouse and keyboard and it all worked on the stock ROM of my S4. Though the screen broke later, so I sold it. I also just used Paragon for it. Now I have an S9+ with
+Gary Sims yeah! it is available. very expensive though. Will the pricing be by the same norm? I mean will 200gb become cheap when there is 400gb available in the market?
When I connect my Action Cam's Micro SD card to my Galaxy S7 using an OTG cable and reader, somehow different files get added to the Micro SD card automatically. Seems like some Android files or something. What are they? and can I stop them being added automatically?
you seems like a teacher and I wish all teachers were like you..... great video man
Same🙈
+ziad ahmed I wish my teacher will never be like him, He should get a real job, that old hag
Majsner _ what does that have to do with anything at all??? you must be a democrat...........
Amazing professor, rare indeed
You mean seem
Hearing this guy talk about FAT made my night lol
Your intelligence is really shining here
Tuco Salamanca LoL.
Wow, this is the best.. incredible......Jarryd Hayne, Bill Gates.. Batman....Breaking Bad. Goku
You're still a child.
my favourite youtube lecturer
same
+martinus krisma My 2nd fav
+Dhruv Agarwal Who is 1st?
He's an Indian youtuber living in Dubai.
Gets around 300 subs perday
Channel Name - Technical Guruji
Dhruv Agarwal Ahh hes pretty good
Bloody brilliant explanation! Made it easier to understand for non-techies.
Very informative. I searched all over the net and couldn't find the answers I was looking for in regards to how much expandable memory my phone could expand to until I watched this video .
10:01 No, what's happening is that those phones are able to format a drive using an out of (strict) spec FAT32, not exFAT (also called FAT64). FAT32 is limited to 32GB by MS for practicality reasons (and also to push NTFS), but it can actually access a drive up to 2TB using 512KB (yes, kilobyte) sectors or 16TB using 4MB (yes, megabyte) sectors, which is fine for large files, but then any file smaller than the sector size will always take up an entire sector EACH (until you defrag the partition). Also, any file which takes up a full sector, plus 1 byte, will take up 2 full sectors. so, if you have a 4MB (4,194,304 bytes) sector size, and you have a file which is 4,194,305 bytes, it will physically take up 8MB of space. MS is limited to 4096byte sectors to limit that fragmentation.
Any device which correctly supports FAT32 will read the out of spec format just fine, including Windows XP machines (not older, though), you just need a formatter which will create an out of spec partition.
Really informative video, but a simple illustration or table or graph that says what format works and what doesn't work will be much easier for people to grasp, instead of pure listening.
I watched twice to fully understand this video.
Jason K I agree with you.A table would be much better, although I understood what he said the first time. Maybe because of my previous knowledge of this subject.
This is all so confusing, fat that works and fat that doesn't work. Instructions unclear, going on fasting diet to lose all fat.
No Name In short:
All cards work, though in some phones/devices you’ll have to format them as FAT32 and consequently won’t be able to store files larger than 4GB.
I got it the first time through and found the details interesting.
I thought it was fine, but maybe I'm too well versed in formatting and filesystems.
I really like Gary's clear, concise teaching style. I hope he keeps adding content.
watching this 10 months later and it made me learn new info, thats when you know how good the video is.
It's good to see you again, Sir. I always learn something useful from your videos. Thank you.
I use exFAT on all my internal and external hard drive, simply because NTFS Security/Permission screwing up when standard user vs admin user profile.
Your videos are brilliant Gary, you teach me with patronising me or me losing interested.
interest *
and he makes me feel emotionally secure
Off topic slightly here but isn't it amazing how much flash memory fits on something as small as a microSD card the literal size of my fingernail and how cheap it is (256gb for ~$22 in 2022).
Finally a guy who's capable of explain such an important issue in an understandable way, congratulations Gary, and looking forward to see the logical lecture: How FAT, FAT32, NTFS and ex-FAT handle the file sizes in the same pedagogical way you made this one.
i love this man ! he is awesome, the best in android authority team 👍
You just clearly answered several questions I have been asking for 10+ years. I thank you sir it means alot
I can't get enough of these videos. Keep it up Gary!
This video was really informative! Been a while since the last time i saw such a straightforward, simple and valuable video in just under 15 minutes! Great work!
your explanation is more clear and easy to understand than my computer science professors.. And it was actually interesting :)
Congratulations, this is the best explanation I've seen on the subject. Great video!
gary and juan (from pocketnow) are the 2 best techies imo
Agreed.
Very hard to argue with that.
Agree :)
Agree!
Yes they are, but you missed Captain2Phones ;-)
i study computer science and what i can tell you is that FAT32 will and should work well with sd cards up to 500gb max as what my teacher told me. just because it's called FAT32 doesnt mean it can only handle 32Gb that's a load of bull. 32 was meant for 32bit if im not mistaken and it will very well support drives higher than 32gb.
limitation:
-file size creation (like videos and so on that's why it's only 2 hours max in some devices for videos and so on)
-the amount of sub folders that you can create within them. (i forgot how many but its not that much)
-get's fragmentation problems and becomes inefficient with bigger drives (if its more than 500gb or more than 320gb stick with NTFS or extendedFAT)
-security: if you have lots of data on a drive that is bigger than the said drives then you might run into some problems like lost or corrupt data. that's why microsoft made the NTFS because it's safer more efficient and is quicker.-less fragmentation on hard disks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
advantages:
-compatability
-simpler ---(i think)---
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-FAT32 is ideal for small drives as they need less tables to operate them from what my teacher said its great for small memory devices like sd cards and flash drives.
-note: i formatted one of my extra drives with FAT32 that's a 320gb drive and it works FINE. no problems just defragment it when things start to slow down. i did it for funziez
-extra note: playstation3's uses FAT32 from factory and works fine and you see those sporting 500gb these days.
well this is a long comment.. *drops virtual potato* :D
he didnt say that . dont waste potatoes real or virtual.
I lost 3 hours of footage because I didn't know my old camera didn't recognize exFAT from my 64Gb card and kept writing over older files. Very sad, but now I am improving my knowledge about that. Going back to my 32Gb card. It should be noted that sometimes it appears to be working, but it is in fact doing something strange, like overwriting it's own data over and over, so from now on I always follow the manufacturer's advice.
You know it's a good video when the opening line is... It's simple, but it's not... Love it
You're simply the best Gary.. I'm watching all your videos as if I'm in a lecture.. (y)
This guy Gary, does some of the best android rewies. Awesome!
I love you Gary. Not only you are excelent at explaning how technology works. You also make this very entertaining.
+NinjaAlbertoSan no homo tho
Thank You! I'm new at this, I didn't even know what format to my camera meant and I now know how easy it is to format thanks to you.
Excellent presentation. I like this guy's explanations of things. He keeps things simple.
update from the future! march 2019 the 1TB sdxc card has come out :P
Very nicely explained. Easy to understand. Now those formatting formats make some sense. Thanks Gary
I'm an electrical engineering student and I find your video really informative.. :D
I've got a SanDisk 200gb in my Galaxy s4. Works like a charm. Picked it up a few months ago on Amazon for sale price of $60.
Bought the same for my z5, sadly with the marshmallows update they stripped the function to adopt the SD as internal. thankfully there I was able to adopt it but it is a little complicated and officially not supported
, as of a few days ago, for less than $20 & in a non-open market country (meaning, different from america), i was still able to get a 128gb micro sd sanDisk.
for $60 i'm now seeing deals for a half terabyte..
To enable exFAT support on Linux for distribution that use apt as package manager like Ubuntu you can just open a Terminal and give this command:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Reboot the system and you're done, you now have full exFAT support on your Linux system and you're able to mount, read and write removable drives.
You're welcome
Yep, the Linux foundation can't quite include exFAT and NTFS support built in for legal reasons, but of course people have reverse engineered drivers for those filesystems
I seriously stayed through the whole video and now, i am a wise learned man. Peace.
F*** patents ... I wish all systems had native ext3/4 FS support at bare minimum, opensource and free, not mentioning that it is faster than exFAT.
I wish systems actually supported GUID partition maps, but legacy software is everywhere. :/
If a 128GB thumbdrive were to be formatted as exFAT, will I be able to use just 32GB or the entire 128GB of it?
Thanks Gary! Well Done! It is one thing to know this stuff, and quite another to present it in a meaningful way in a video. Awesome!
What I don't understand is why the Android phone manufacturers simply didn't go with an open format such as ext4 for the larger SD cards; it would have been *free* for them to do so. Ditto for other equipment manufacturers, such as TV, photocopiers, etc. The only roadblock would have been Windows' current inability to recognize this filesystem, but AFAIK, with the right driver added, Windows should be able to recognize it as well as exFAT.
Guru Gary does it again! Amazing video as usual.
You lost me like 20 secs into the video, but I like how you summed it up in dummy terms at the end. Thanks man!
Or just format as ext4, most Android phones use that as their filesystems by default.
Didn't hear about the command prompt format when things go really wrong with the card or usb stick by not been recognised by any os.
Great info. *Thx* !!!!
I wonder what if the card formated as ext4, as all new Android device have ext4 support.
Is this an option formatting within Android OS?
Must have Extreme to 4K ultra not read 4K sizev
You've only done half the job here
Read off and Write to these SDXC cards that have been reformatted and tell many if you get any failures.
Also, do you get full storage as shown on card?
When you insert a fast (class 10 U1) micro SDHC card into an old device (it accepts SDHC) can it complain about the card being too fast ?
Dang Gary, I practically have a man crush on you. Great video.
dafuq
No more joking on this thread.😇
Whoa!!
That's the most useful video I've seen in years. I couldn't read my 128gb card from my phone in my win XP PC. This explains everything. I hate the fact that everyone has to pay Microsoft though.
Fantastic video for the SD cards and File Systems.
but what if you pass that 32GB. does the R/W speed slows?
+orestislef Nope!
I meed in fat32...
+orestislef nope
"... Compression wrecks performance."
Depends which CPU you use. Input-Output is faster; smaller file sizes. Using a fast, multi-threaded CPU, makes things faster again.
*multi-threaded CPU*
...um...CPUs aren't "multi-threaded"...
Great Video and information, I agree with Jason K about how a graph would certainly expedite the knowledge crystallization.
I have never had any issues with swapping in higher capacity cards in my Motorola Droid2,, Droid4 and Wifeys SG5.
Until I upgrade my phone again I have been granted a temporary reprieve with the Droid Turbo (64GB and sans MicroSD slot).
so now i know that my old sd card is not broken, i just need to format it. Thanks Gary!
Gary Sims + Josh Vergara + Jaime Rivera from Pocketnow = Ultimate TH-cam team
Micheal Fisher (MobileNation) + Lisa (MobileTechReview) = dream team
Can confirm, been using a reformatted 64GB micro SD in an "only 32GB micro SD card" tablet with no worries for years
You can use diskpart to format SDXC as FAT32. The filesystem is the only difference between SDHC & SDXC.
It is best to format micro sd card in FAT32 format before using. I current having problem when I transferred videos/pictures from internal storage in my phone to the external micro sd card.Some of the videos/pictures are corrupted. Do you know why? It is because I dont format the SD card correctly?
right
this guy is my new best teacher in tech :))
but did you test if those phones with 32GB limit will write any data when the that limit is reached despite the card being formatted has more capacity. i remember vaguely an mp3 player, back when mp3 players were a thing, when i bought a higher capacity storage it just never read the songs beyond that or when it did get to a song that just passed the threshold, the player just crashed. it was a phillips or sandisk player.
formatting my external 8tb hdd to exfat, made my 2015 Samsung JS8500 4k tv to fully recognize it. I thought my tv can't recognize anything past 2TB or less. I'm so happy I don't have to shop for another tv for a very long time.
Love these kinds of videos. More please!
What do you mean the card worked on the Note 5? (around 9:20) There is no expandable storage on the Note5.
I bought a 32gb microsdhc. for my camcorder made a video but when I install it into my phone there's no sound but sound when I play it on the camcorder I have a android Samsung prime so I can't send it anywhere cause no sound could you help me
I was just doing research on this a week ago, so this came in at the perfect time!
No, it's not just not to confuse customers. Samsung actually restricts the size of the cards you can put into their phones for some reason. My last phone could read a 256 GB card but not a 400 GB card. Which is incidentally the limit of my current phone, even though 512 GB cards were already a thing when I bought it.
Why didn't we switch to ext4 instead of exFAT back then 🤔
MY Samsung MicroSD 256 GB does not take large files. For instance, instead of copying a large music file from my PC to micro SD with many albums in it, I had to do one album at a time. Even then, many times the PC would show that the files were being copied to the MicroSD, but when I opened it, the file was empty. It's very frustrating and time consuming.
Don't you lose a big chunk of storage space if you format the card to FAT 32?
Seriously Microsoft. Even Linux devs gets tired of this patent and loyalty shits.
patents and proprietary software in general suck
Sorry for the necro but fat32 and exfat are now free to use and open source since Microsoft joined OIN
One thing that I've noticed on my LG G3, is that the phone will recognise exFAT when it's booted up(Cloudy G3), but TWRP will only recognise FAT32.
Can you talk about the different write speeds standards of SD-Card's
this is highly relatable with me encountering problems a 128GB micro SD card working on my new nintendo 3ds portable. had to do some research on this and look for a workaround to format the sd card with fat32 :I
Can you help? Why does my Samsung SkyPro wipe the micro SD card when I power down EVEN when the card has been unmounted first? Have not been able to find answer on Google.
but formating a 64Gb to fat 32, you will lose access to some of the space right?
I'd like to see an informative video about sd speeds too. How important it actually is on a smartphone if i am going to use it only for photos and music or if its going to be used for apps too. do the apps run slower in a slower sd etc .
great video, very informative.
does formatting the 128gb sd card to fat32 reduce the 128gb usage capacity of the card?
I learned something new. Thank you Gary!
my old samsung phone only has support for 8 gb micro sd cards and when i put my 32gb cards in it it does recognize it but it says it's too big.
+Jonaz Format it using a PC and try again.
Turn off phones at night. Is it good or bad to the battery? Please explain.
So, you can only format it to FAT32 on a phone? I got the gyst of it early on, was waiting for you to show a link on were I can format the ExFAT to a FAT 32.
You can do it using built-in software in smartphones and windows.
What happens to the extra storage that is formatted in FAT32, ie., 128GB formatted in FAT32?
Is the writing speed the most important factor when looking for my first SD card for my smartphone (Nokia 7+) I want it for saving video files, ie from the camera app.
Currently it seems the maximum film(s) I can save is about 30-40 minutes only .... Perhaps made up from 10 short clips.
If I am near home I can easily transfer these to my computer then start filming again, but if I am further away I'll need more memory.
Have you are preferred card for early 2020 please ?
Thanks !
Why would you use fat at all and not things like btrfs or ext.4?
Why does the SD association define what filesystem I can put on my sdcard? Am I forbidden to put my own onto it? Do they license filesystems as "SD card compatible"?
I'm just a bit confused. If FAT32 functions with max file sizes of 4GB then how can you use a 128GB USB?
That is beyond the working range of FAT32. Shouldn't any device formatted in FAT32 be read as 4GB storages?
Doesn't the maximum storage limit also depend on the processors data bus size? Or is it just for the RAM?
So in 6 years time, will my windows galaxy book tablet advertising supporting up to 256GB be able to support sd cards up to 2TB?
Cameron retason yes if SD xc is still around.
Actually The original SD could support up to 4GB as well As there being SDHC 4GB cards. The SDHC format phased out the SD format while the 4GB SD theoretical maximum was reached. Also SDHC has a naturally higher transfer speed VS SD so that was another factor why you almost only saw 4GB SDHC cards.
I used a 256gb card in my HTC One M9 Plus and it corrupted all mi picture and videos. They all went blank and unreadable by anything like other phones and computers. Whether I used the camera or download media files, once I start to view them they get corrupt.
Am I right in assuming that even though a FAT32 card has a 4GB limit on the size of a file stored on it - if a file that you want saved is larger than that size the card will still save the data, but it will store it in multiple files?
What does he mean by "Haitch"?
Shouldn't it be "Aitch"? as in HP?
Sometimes, for new sdcard can be format type is FAT32 because old or new phone can read for FAT32 only. For old phone only said up to 32GB and new phone said up to 64/128/256/512GB or more.
For old smartphone user, you can use more than 32GB with format to FAT32. Example for my phone is HUAWEI Y3II, manufacture sdcard up to 32GB. But i put my 128GB sdcard to my phone, and suprising it read it.
Gary how can your Note 5 recognise the Micro SD Card if HELLO it doesnt have a micro sd card slot?
Would it work being formatted in Ext4?
Yes, and it does when you select "expand internal storage" in the phone's storage settings (note that doing this deletes all data currently on the card), well, either ext4 or f2fs by default.
Sadly there is no option to just normally use ext4 without rooting (at least wasn't on Android 8.1.0 where I tested), even if you would know you would never need to use the card in Windows. I think it's stupid that Android artificially limits what file systems you can use, even when there is support for a whole host of them in Android.
so there no technical advantage of FAT over ext4 or journal fs on sdcard?
I have a 32G micro SD card in my android phone, but most of the apps won't load onto it, so my phone storage is running out of space.
Nice video. I thought I'd share my experience. Now I have no idea if this works for exfat but I had a usb drive formated in ntfs. While android didn't show it as recognized, I was able to read and write to it using es file explorer.
if you buy a card >32K, and format it with FAT, how much of it can you access?
My Galaxy S4 can read NTFS file system with a custom kernel😀😀😀
+Dewang Patil But Ext4 and F2FS are significantly more performant / customizable.
+landwolf00 Ya but i just wanted to tell that android supports NTFS too
I wish I was exfat 😭
I once plugged in a normal USB hub connected to a power bank (just to power the HDD), a 2 TB NTFS HDD, mouse and keyboard and it all worked on the stock ROM of my S4. Though the screen broke later, so I sold it. I also just used Paragon for it. Now I have an S9+ with
Great stuff. A question though, are there 200 gigs or more SD xc cards available in the market?
+Ankit Kothari I think you can get 200GB at the moment, but I am sure the sizes will keep going up...
+Gary Sims yeah! it is available. very expensive though. Will the pricing be by the same norm? I mean will 200gb become cheap when there is 400gb available in the market?
When I connect my Action Cam's Micro SD card to my Galaxy S7 using an OTG cable and reader, somehow different files get added to the Micro SD card automatically. Seems like some Android files or something. What are they? and can I stop them being added automatically?