paries
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how large of a microsd card does the Raspberry Pi Zero suppo

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:01 pm

hello,
i just saw the release of the new Raspberry Pi Zero
trying to find where it specifies , what is the largest microsd that it supports?

thanks

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Re: how large of a microsd card does the Raspberry Pi Zero s

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:05 pm

if you can format them using fdisk you can use them so ... up to 2TB IIRC
which you will not find yet so hwo much can you afford
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Re: how large of a microsd card does the Raspberry Pi Zero s

Tue Feb 28, 2017 3:09 pm

RaTTuS wrote:if you can format them using fdisk you can use them so ... up to 2GB IIRC
which you will not find yet so hwo much can you afford
...only 2GB RaTTuS :shock:

I think you mean 2TB :D
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Re: how large of a microsd card does the Raspberry Pi Zero s

Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:13 pm

texy wrote:
RaTTuS wrote:if you can format them using fdisk you can use them so ... up to 2GB IIRC
which you will not find yet so hwo much can you afford
...only 2GB RaTTuS :shock:

I think you mean 2TB :D
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Re: how large of a microsd card does the Raspberry Pi Zero s

Tue Feb 28, 2017 4:27 pm

paries wrote:hello,
i just saw the release of the new Raspberry Pi Zero
trying to find where it specifies , what is the largest microsd that it supports?

thanks
SD-cards up-to and including 32GB you can use as is, but 64GB and above cards normally come formatted as exFAT from which a PI cannot boot, so they have to be re-formatted to FAT32, at least if you want to use them with NOOBS, if you image them with an imaging program like DD, the formatting doesn't matter as it simply writes to the sectors of the card, and expands the Linux partitions afterwards.

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