64GB Memory Card
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(04-20-2016, 06:00 AM)jl_678 Wrote: @tkaiser, thank you for Raspberry Pi memory card clarification.  I never understood why larger cards were problematic and now I do!

Well, in fact the description was too simplified since when you burn any 'normal' OS image to an SD card every sort of formatting done before is lost anyway (since the image contains already a new partition table and whole filesystems).

The instructions to use 'SD Formatter' (and directly after specialiced tools that allow to again format media larger 32 GB with FAT32) is only necessary when you want to use NOOBS on Rasperry Pi (a multi OS booting solution that will then be the first "OS" that's loaded by RPi's VideoCore GPU and let you then select specific OS installations to be chosen from).

But since the RPi foundation seems to their customers are dumb as hell and don't like to have too much support issues they simply tell everyone to specially format their cards even if it's plain useless since the next step (burning a regular image) will completely wipe out the partitioning and creation of a filesystem before.
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64GB Memory Card - by jl_678 - 03-17-2016, 11:26 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tllim - 03-17-2016, 12:09 PM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by jl_678 - 03-17-2016, 12:10 PM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by dav3yb - 04-18-2016, 06:04 PM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tllim - 04-19-2016, 06:22 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by peterb - 04-19-2016, 08:41 PM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tkaiser - 04-20-2016, 01:15 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by SkimMilk - 04-20-2016, 02:49 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tkaiser - 04-20-2016, 03:04 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by jl_678 - 04-20-2016, 06:00 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tkaiser - 04-20-2016, 06:54 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by jl_678 - 04-20-2016, 07:13 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tkaiser - 04-20-2016, 08:14 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by jl_678 - 04-20-2016, 08:26 AM
RE: 64GB Memory Card - by tkaiser - 04-20-2016, 08:34 AM

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