I'm using a 32GB SD card, so yes it works.  Has anyone tried 64GB and
larger cards yet?  64 or 128GB would be insanely nice!

Eric


On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM, William Hermans <[email protected]> wrote:

> We use two BBB's here, and both use 16GB class 10 cards. I've heard that
> 32GB works too, but no hands on.
>
> AS john said first you want more space( unused, or free space ) on your sd
> card to help facilitate wear leveling, *AND* if you're going to be doing
> lots of writing for development purposes. Move your rootfs to an NFS share.
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:05 AM, William Pretty Security <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks John J
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
>> *On Behalf Of *John Syn
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:48 PM
>>
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *William Pretty Security <[email protected]>
>> *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Date: *Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 7:58 PM
>> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Subject: *RE: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>> Actually John, I've been having that exact problem !
>>
>>
>>
>> How does 'wear leveling' work ?
>>
>> I have been using an external USB key as temp storage.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling
>>
>>
>>
>> For development purposes, don't use SDCards. Rather use NFS to mount a
>> rootfs on your desktop.
>>
>>
>>
>> In the field, use a read only rootfs and create a separate partition for
>> storage. Flash has to erase a block before writing a byte. If you have a
>> logging application, create a buffer in ram which is the size of your flash
>> erase block and write data to buffer and only write the buffer to disk when
>> the buffer is full. Alternatively, use a power fail detection circuitry and
>> only write to SDCard on power failure. There are a lot of techniques like
>> this that prolong the life of flash.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
>> <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *John Syn
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:32 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *William Pretty Security <[email protected]>
>> *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Date: *Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 6:51 PM
>> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Subject: *RE: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>> Quite right, but given that Ubuntu with GUI is about 3GB, isn't the other
>> 13 kind of a waste ??
>>
>> Flash has a finite number of writes so with wear leveling, you want to
>> have a much free space as possible to prevent flash failure. If it is the
>> same price, always get the bigger one ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
>> <[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *John Syn
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:32 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From: *William Pretty Security <[email protected]>
>> *Reply-To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Date: *Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM
>> *To: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> *Subject: *RE: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>> You probably want about 8GB class 10 for sure.
>>
>> I don't know if there is a maximum size of uSD card.
>>
>> 16GB is about the same price as 8GB. At Amazon, 16GB class 10 is about $8.
>>
>>
>>
>> The class 4 uSD cards aren't very reliable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]
>> <[email protected]>]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 6:05 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB
>>
>>
>>
>> Greetings everyone,
>>
>> What is the maximum size SD or SDHC flash memory card that the
>> "BeagleBone Black" will support ?
>>
>> Also, what is the recommended speed class (e.g. Class 4, Class 10, etc.) ?
>>
>> Thank you in advance for your help :-)
>>
>> Jonmar
>>
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