Sd card capacity

Carb63 · Jul 26, 2019

Hello everyone....! TGIF!
Quick question, what should I see on 16 gig /64 gig /128 gig display on the sd card when the sd card has been formatted, In other words, max capacity for each ?

msinger · Jul 26, 2019

It depends on your photo/videos settings. To see the available capacity, format the memory card and then look at the available photos/time at the top, right of DJI GO.

Carb63 · Jul 26, 2019

msinger said:
It depends on your photo/videos settings. To see the available capacity, format the memory card and then look at the available photos/time at the top, right of DJI GO.

Thx Msinger. I just transferred over data to-laptop inserted the card and it reads 3340 in Raw. 64g ...I’m guessing it changes as you switch from 720, 1080, 4K ? Or that doesn’t matter ? Thanks again for your input. ?

msinger · Jul 26, 2019

Carb63 said:
I’m guessing it changes as you switch from 720, 1080, 4K ?

You got it.

Mossiback · Jul 26, 2019

Carb63 said:
...Quick question, what should I see on 16 gig /64 gig /128 gig display on the sd card when the sd card has been formatted, In other words, max capacity for each ?

Unfortunately, there are two accepted definitions of gigabyte size. Card manufactures use the International System of Units (SI) where 1GB = 1000 megabytes (MB) or the binary measurement system (what your computer uses) where 1GB on the label = 954MB available to the computer. So, where the card shows 8, 16, 32, 64, or 128 GB on the label, the computer will show 7.45, 14.9, 29.8, 59.6, or 119.2GB available.

DanMan32 · Jul 26, 2019

Actually I think you have it backwards. 1GB = 1024MB.
There is space consumed to keep track and organize where your data is within the storage. FAT stands for File Allocation Table. That table (2 copies) takes up space, as well as the root directory.
Subdirectories are themselves special files.

ProPlatinum · Jul 28, 2019

My understanding was that the Mavics (at least MPP) can’t handle 128gig ?? I use a 64g but if it will handle a 128g I’d rather.

What is the group think on 128g

msinger · Jul 28, 2019

ProPlatinum said:
My understanding was that the Mavics (at least MPP) can’t handle 128gig ?? I use a 64g but if it will handle a 128g I’d rather.

The Mavic Pro Specs state 128 GB is the max supported memory card size.

Mossiback · Jul 29, 2019

DanMan32 said:
Actually I think you have it backwards. 1GB = 1024MB...

You are right, in that 1GB=1024MB in the binary system but I was comparing binary to SI by illustrating what is shown on the label and what is available to a computer.

I definitely could have written it in a less confusing manor and have edited my post.

RicardoFaria · Aug 4, 2019

I am using 128GB without any problem.

ProPlatinum said:
My understanding was that the Mavics (at least MPP) can’t handle 128gig ?? I use a 64g but if it will handle a 128g I’d rather.

What is the group think on 128g

passedpawn · Aug 5, 2019

I used a 256GB card in my M2P. I noticed screen said. 6 hrs video available. Can’t remember video setting - whatever default was.

linux_guy · Feb 8, 2020

ProPlatinum said:
My understanding was that the Mavics (at least MPP) can’t handle 128gig ?? I use a 64g but if it will handle a 128g I’d rather.

What is the group think on 128g

I understood from dji.com the mavic 2 pro supports 128Gig, but regardless of a 128G or 64G, when I format, it's no different, shows 60G usable.
Anyone ?

Mossiback · Feb 8, 2020

Are you formatting using Go 4 with the card in your Mavic?

linux_guy · Feb 8, 2020

Mossiback said:
Are you formatting using Go 4 with the card in your Mavic?

yes formatting with the dji app on my phone.

I know the card is not a fake, I put it in an SD card reader and then into my laptop, it shows it's a 128G card. SO I'm really confused because some people are saying they put in 128's and it shows as a 128. One guy even said he put in a 256G in the mavic 2 pro. Weird.

Mossiback · Feb 8, 2020

Does it also show only 60GB usable when in your computer? How do you know the card is not fake (or faulty)?

linux_guy · Feb 8, 2020

Mossiback said:
Does it also show only 60GB usable when in your computer? How do you know the card is not fake (or faulty)?

It's a 128 GB card in my computer (on a linux computer), I haven't tried it on windows or mac, but if linux thinks it's 128G then I'm pretty confident it's legit, I also wrote to it from linux and it's Ok. I am going to try to format it on my linux and put it in the drone to see what happens, but I shouldn't have to do that.

I should also mention the firmware on the drone is up to date.

linux_guy · Feb 9, 2020

Update on this issue: I took the 128Gig sd card and wiped every partition , re-partitioned it for one partition occupying the entire sd card and created a FAT32 filesystem, then put in the mavic, and now the mavic sees the full capacity of the sd card, then, re-formated it with the format utility of the dji APP, and again it sees the full size of the sd Card (actually it's 121 billion), So I don't know why the first time I did it this didn't work. In summary, if you're not seeing in the DJI app what you think you should be seeing, try putting the sd card into your computer and wipe it clean (MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE RIGHT DRIVE please).

thanks to those who offered help.