Is there any upward limit on the size of a micro SD card that can be used on a Mavic Pro? Mine came with a 16 MB card. Can I go to 64 MB without causing any problems?
Have you heard the expression putting all your eggs in one basket?Is there any upward limit on the size of a micro SD card that can be used on a Mavic Pro? Mine came with a 16 MB card. Can I go to 64 MB without causing any problems?
The Mavic Pro specs state the upper limit is 128 GB. That's likely larger than you'll need/want though.Is there any upward limit on the size of a micro SD card that can be used on a Mavic Pro?
Honestly I have had an issue with the 64 GB and above and I’ve been tracking the issue trying to figure it out. It doesn’t happen to everybody and it doesn’t start right away. My advice would be to just get a 32GB or two 32 GB and switch when the one is getting low. It also helps managing that much data and if something happens to the Mavic it limits the amount of footage you lose.
Whatever you do, don’t get the Sandisk Extreme Plus 64 GB. I have noticed this card in particular has the most issues. Extreme Plus 32 GB works fine but not the 64 GB.
Make sure you get a card that says V30.
This memory card?I have a Sandisk Ultra Plus (not Extreme Plus) 64 GB Micro SDXC UHS-I card in my kit which is unused
I have a Sandisk Ultra Plus (not Extreme Plus) 64 GB Micro SDXC UHS-I card in my kit which is unused. Still in the wrapper. It's not marked V30. Any warnings on this one?
Just for your info @brett8883 - The Mavic 2 Pro (and Mavic Pro) has a UHS data transfer bus for interfacing the SD card to the camera system. This means that it can use the faster and more efficient 'buffer' available in the 'UHS speed class 3' data transfer specification. While both the U3 and the V30 spec' appear to state the same thing (i.e. 30 MByte/s sustained write speed), they are doing so in different interface / bus structures in the card - with the UHS bus being the newest and most effective.That isn’t an acceptable card to use with the Mavic. The V30 is the most important part which refers to the minimum write speed of the card. It’s the speed, when the card is taxed to its limit that it will still be able to write. So V30 is 30 mbps and V10 is 10mbps.
It may work for 1080P like @msinger said but I certainly would always be worried about it. If the card can’t write fast enough it will make the video look awful or make the camera restart during flight.
Just for your info @brett8883 - The Mavic 2 Pro (and Mavic Pro) has a UHS data transfer bus for interfacing the SD card to the camera system. This means that it can use the faster and more efficient 'buffer' available in the 'UHS speed class 3' data transfer specification. While both the U3 and the V30 spec' appear to state the same thing (i.e. 30 MByte/s sustained write speed), they are doing so in different interface / bus structures in the card - with the UHS bus being the newest and most effective.
For this reason, it's best to look for the U3 icon over the V30 icon - However, if you find a card with the U3 icon, it will most certainly be marked V30 as well.
We probably are saying the same thing as at the end of the day, a card with V30 on it will also have U3 ... It's just that my research shows a differentiation between earlier SD card standards that used a 'high-speed data bus' and the newer standards that use a UHS-I data bus. It is significant that DJI have made the Mavic Pro and 2 Pro compatible with the UHS-I data bus - as it would have been the cheap and easy option to remain with the 'standard' high-speed data bus.I think we are saying the same thing different ways. V30 indicates the same thing as U3 including the UHS bus. The “V” classification stands for “video” minimum write speed and is a newer classification than U3 to account for cards that are capable of V60 and V90 speeds and combines the speed class, UHS class, and new Video class into one system so it’s easier to compare a class 10 card to a U3 card to a V90 card. There’s no such thing as U6 or U9 so they had to come up with a new scale. However, U3 and V30 mean exactly the same thing.
Class 6 is now called V6
U1 is now called V10
U3 is now called V30
This way you don’t have to ask yourself “what’s better a Class 6 or a U3?” The fact that a U3 is many times faster than a class 6 is incredibly confusing. Condensing it down to one system is much more logical.
A card with U3 but not V30 just means the card was manufactured before the new specifications were put in place and therefore an older card. That’s all the difference is.
We probably are saying the same thing as at the end of the day, a card with V30 on it will also have U3 ... It's just that my research shows a differentiation between earlier SD card standards that used a 'high-speed data bus' and the newer standards that use a UHS-I data bus. It is significant that DJI have made the Mavic Pro and 2 Pro compatible with the UHS-I data bus - as it would have been the cheap and easy option to remain with the 'standard' high-speed data bus.
I think we are saying the same thing different ways.
This is also a topic of much discussion, but personally, I'd recommend that you format the SD card in the Mavic itself (using the 'Format' command in the Go4 app), and that way, you know that you'll get the card formatted in the way that the Mavic likes to use it ... The only downside of the formats that the Mavic uses, is that it has a 4GB file size limit, and therefore 'long' video recordings will be split (but that's not an issue if you are editing).Something else to consider that could be OP's problem:
Cards 32GB or less are usually formatted FAT32. Cards greater than that are formatted ExFAT. I've heard sometimes the M1 can act up, particularly with gimbal resets when using ExFAT.
It is technically possible to format cards >32GB as FAT32, but you have to use third party tools to do it. MAC and Windows won't natively do it, even when using command line tools.
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