6gb/8gb micro SD cards?

e36Adz · 17 Oct 2007 at 19:18

I didn't even know these were out but has anyone got one, either a 6gb or an 8gb card, and are they compatible with most devices that use micro SD cards?

I put this in the mobile phone section because I'm thinking I might have more success in here, afew of you guys might have one in your phone. But I actually want to use it for my M3 simply DS flash card which I have for my nintendo DS lite.

Anyone used one?

I previously tried a 4gb micro SD card in the M3 simply DS and in my XDA Orbit, but it worked in neither.

hikaru452 · 17 Oct 2007 at 19:52

6gb/8gb micro sd or micro SDHC?

mightynimrod · 17 Oct 2007 at 19:53

I was going to get my son a 6gb card for his DS......are you saying it won't work.???

ps3ud0 · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:04

Nope it wont work if its a microSD and not a microSDHC device (M3 Simply is microSD; only the CycloDS is microSDHC) - beware of 4GB+ microSDs which dont follow the standard and therefore compatibility isnt confirmed (i.e. might work but only address the first 2GBs)...

AFAIK:

microSD = Native FAT16
microSDHC = Native FAT32

which is why microSD only comes in flavours upto 2GB

ps3ud0 :cool:

mightynimrod · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:13

So basically the biggest size available is only 2gb?

e36Adz · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:13

hikaru452 said:
6gb/8gb micro sd or micro SDHC?

I always thought they were the same thing!

e36Adz · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:18

mightynimrod said:
So basically the biggest size available is only 2gb?

By the looks of it, yes. I tried a 4gb card afew weeks ago which didn't work. All the 6gb and 8gb cards all seem to be micro SD-HC, so doubt they will work either.

MikeHunt79 · 17 Oct 2007 at 20:23

My M3 lite works with fat16 and fat32 filesystems - would this mean I could use a 6gb card?

Morba · 18 Oct 2007 at 00:10

microsdhc 6gb cards work in N95's, which makes me happy

amazing to think that they are planning 32gb cards, the size of them is shocking!

Raymond Lin · 18 Oct 2007 at 00:22

Morba said:
microsdhc 6gb cards work in N95's, which makes me happy

amazing to think that they are planning 32gb cards, the size of them is shocking!

Whoa !!! Cool, which brand is it? Only had my 2G for a week and i've filled 60% of it already ! :eek:

MikeHunt79 · 18 Oct 2007 at 00:52

32gb? That would be awesome!

I'll see if I can borrow a 6gb card - hopefully me m3 will agree with it.

ps3ud0 · 18 Oct 2007 at 06:21

Re-read what he said - he was referring to a 6GB microSDHC - a 4GB+ microSD may work buts its non-standard so if it does work it may not display the full size or corrupt what you store on it...

For a fact a microSD device will not be able to use a microSDHC card...

Since one of the features to make the standard is FAT32 file system upto 32GB cards will eventually become available

MikeHunt79 said:
My M3 lite works with fat16 and fat32 filesystems - would this mean I could use a 6gb card?

Interesting point - as far as Im aware its more to do what natively it supports rather what you can format it to - since its an artifical standard technically a 4GB+ FAT32 microSD (why its not a microSDHC its anyones guess - licensing/testing/should work but I dont know all the differences between microSD and microSDHC

ps3ud0 :cool:

Morba · 18 Oct 2007 at 15:28

Raymond Lin said:
Whoa !!! Cool, which brand is it? Only had my 2G for a week and i've filled 60% of it already !

sandisk

was shocked when someone said to try it, apparently the documentation for the n95 states 4gb because that was the biggest that was out at the time, not because of a soft/hard ware restriction

cheap as well :]