SD Card

Arjerram · Mar 22, 2021

When taking photos, if the SD card fills, how do you know? We're going on a long vacation, won't have the ability to download the cards.

Meta4 · Mar 22, 2021

Arjerram said:
When taking photos, if the SD card fills, how do you know? We're going on a long vacation, won't have the ability to download the cards.

The information is there on screen.
It will show video/stills capacity for whichever you are using at the time.
If using DJI Fly, it's down near the bottom left:

If your drone uses DJI Go 4, look toward the top of the screen, a bit right of the centre:

THE CYBORG · Mar 22, 2021

Ever thought of getting another card or two ?
If you only have one for the full holiday and it gets corrupted it would be a big loss.

SkyPath Studios · Mar 22, 2021

Like what Meta 4 said. You can see the GB in the status bar after clicking that. If it is dji fly at the bottom there is internal and sd card. That will give the exact GBs.

Arjerram · Mar 22, 2021

THE CYBORG said:
Ever thought of getting another card or two ?
If you only have one for the full holiday and it gets corrupted it would be a big loss.

I said "cards". I intend to have more than one. But I still needed a solution.

Arjerram · Mar 22, 2021

Meta4 said:
The information is there on screen.
It will show video/stills capacity for whichever you are using at the time.
If using DJI Fly, it's down near the bottom left:

If your drone uses DJI Go 4, look toward the top of the screen, a bit right of the centre:

Thank you so much. I hope to stop at Costco tomorrow and get my Mavic Mini even though the weather won't be good till Fri or so.

Yeunglings · Mar 23, 2021

I second the idea of having multiple cards. You can get quality SanDisk or Samsung 32 or 64gb cards relatively cheap on Amazon and rotate them out daily, every flight or what have you. If your only card gets corrupted or ejected then the whole trip is lost but if you have 2, 3 or more cards the chances of saving most of your trip improve greatly. You could also look in to getting a card reader to plug directly in to your phone through the USB or lightning port to store your photos/ videos there as backup.

Guido Cangelosi · Mar 23, 2021

Arjerram said:
When taking photos, if the SD card fills, how do you know? We're going on a long vacation, won't have the ability to download the cards.

Hello, on most of my drones (MA1, MA2, YTH+, PEG and PEGX) the free space on the SD is displayed - on the MA2 i can also toggle between Time left or free space. --- usually on the top right of the screen.

THE CYBORG · Mar 23, 2021

Arjerram said:
I said "cards". I intend to have more than one. But I still needed a solution.

Didn't spot the end part where you say cards

You can get External Hard Drive’s that have a built in card reader, could be worth investigating

Thomas B · Mar 23, 2021

THE CYBORG said:
Didn't spot the end part where you say cards
You can get External Hard Drive’s that have a built in card reader, could be worth investigating

Or just a simple reader.

Arjerram · Mar 23, 2021

Yeunglings said:
I second the idea of having multiple cards. You can get quality SanDisk or Samsung 32 or 64gb cards relatively cheap on Amazon and rotate them out daily, every flight or what have you. If your only card gets corrupted or ejected then the whole trip is lost but if you have 2, 3 or more cards the chances of saving most of your trip improve greatly. You could also look in to getting a card reader to plug directly in to your phone through the USB or lightning port to store your photos/ videos there as backup.

I NEVER thought about an. SD card reader for the phone. Duh!!

ddnslc · Mar 23, 2021

Arjerram said:
I NEVER thought about an. SD card reader for the phone. Duh!!

This is probably the best solution. Once attached to your phone, you should be able to upload to a cloud service like Onedrive or something. You can get a ton of storage for very cheap these days.

tlswift58 · Mar 23, 2021

Yeunglings said:
I second the idea of having multiple cards. You can get quality SanDisk or Samsung 32 or 64gb cards relatively cheap on Amazon and rotate them out daily, every flight or what have you. If your only card gets corrupted or ejected then the whole trip is lost but if you have 2, 3 or more cards the chances of saving most of your trip improve greatly. You could also look in to getting a card reader to plug directly in to your phone through the USB or lightning port to store your photos/ videos there as backup.

Why even play with low data sized cards? 64 would be the lowest I'd ever use and prefer the 128. Not that I even come close to filling one up.

tlswift58 · Mar 23, 2021

When traveling, I ALWAYS have my small laptop with me. I then transfer my days recordings to the laptop or a USB Flash Drive to clear the data on the drone card - which is a 128GB. Much easier to edit if I have the time and upload to the Internet.

No idea on how long your vaca is, but 128GB's is a lot of data - even videoing at 4k and shooting in RAW / 48MP. Several SD cards of that size also takes care of the issue too.

Yeunglings · Mar 24, 2021

tlswift58 said:
Why even play with low data sized cards? 64 would be the lowest I'd ever use and prefer the 128. Not that I even come close to filling one up.

You can grab a bunch of quality 64gb cards fairly cheaply( about $15us right now) and that would be my first choice after having had a few 256 and an expensive at the time 512 either self-eject over land or become corrupted I now prefer to not have all my eggs in one basket and out a good chunk of change. But when you can sometimes find a 32gb Sandisk extreme on sale for $7 I'd say go for it because 32gb is normally good for 1 full battery on an M2P or MA2. I carry a credit card sized microsd card holder in each bag that holds 10 cards and adaptor. Not all slots are full but as sales happen I have room to grow?