1.5Tb SD card - possible?

[SteamyMeatballs]

I've tried the fix I've discovered over in another thread. Are 1.5Tb cards more common and useful now used with emunand? I'm on CFW 18.1.0 I believe.

 

[SylverReZ]

SanDisk does sell 1.5TB microSD cards but they're very expensive. 256GB is about enough for EmuNAND + games.

 

[such]

I've tried the fix I've discovered over in another thread. Are 1.5Tb cards more common and useful now used with emunand? I'm on CFW 18.1.0 I believe.

What's the question? They're around, you can get them, they work. Whether you need one... well, you need to calculate that on your own.

 

[SteamyMeatballs]

That's what I was wondering. I came upon another thread about 1.5Tb cards not being read or detected by emunand or hekate. So I set my new card up, and seeing an error upon attempting to boot into emunand from hekate. Is there another fix around for hekate or emunand to see the larger 1.5Tb cards?

 

[Blythe93]

What about buying a few external hard drives where you can store the games that you aren't playing all the time and getting yourself a 256GB or 512GB high endurance microSD card instead? Might be a bit more expensive but it's much more reliable than having one 1.5TB SD card with all the games you run into installed to it. When that SD card dies, you'll have a lot of work to do to reinstall all the games you previously had, provided by the time it dies on you you still care about having all those games.

I personally have 256GB SanDisk Extreme microSD card and it works perfectly. Not too expensive, but with enough storage for plenty of games, even more if you're into indie titles as they tend to be less in size and probably much more durable than most of the microSD cards out there.

 

[SteamyMeatballs]

Already have a 512Gb, want to upgrade to a 1.5Tb.

 

[Thorhax]

SanDisk does sell 1.5TB microSD cards but they're very expensive. 256GB is about enough for EmuNAND + games.

Lightweight

 

[l7777]

I've gone 256 -> 512 -> 1TB -> 2TB mostly Sandisk Extreme. None have failed or slowed down. Most purchased during the holiday season when they were at their least expensive. Necessary, no, but convenient. The smaller cards were also transitioned to the kid's devices. All depends on what you want to do with the space. Store all the games? Multiple Emunand partitions? Android or Linux partition? Combination of those?

 

[SteamyMeatballs]

I've gone 256 -> 512 -> 1TB -> 2TB mostly Sandisk Extreme. None have failed or slowed down. Most purchased during the holiday season when they were at their least expensive. Necessary, no, but convenient. The smaller cards were also transitioned to the kid's devices. All depends on what you want to do with the space. Store all the games? Multiple Emunand partitions? Android or Linux partition? Combination of those?

So hekate can see and read the large cards no matter what with no special fixes? Just one raw partition, 1.4Gb available or so. Suppose there is enough room to bring the Android partition back but it's not a priority.

 

[Hayato213]

h2testw your card.

 

[worm28]

That's what I was wondering. I came upon another thread about 1.5Tb cards not being read or detected by emunand or hekate. So I set my new card up, and seeing an error upon attempting to boot into emunand from hekate. Is there another fix around for hekate or emunand to see the larger 1.5Tb cards?

You need to make sure your 1.5tb sd card is formatted as MBR not GPT partition scheme you can change it with minitool partition wizard without losing your data the switch wont read GPT and most high compacity cards come as GPT.

 

[l7777]

So hekate can see and read the large cards no matter what with no special fixes? Just one raw partition, 1.4Gb available or so. Suppose there is enough room to bring the Android partition back but it's not a priority.

Been using the 2tb card since the holiday. Formatted Fat32 MBR with rufus, tested with h2testw. After verification I copied everything from the 1TB card to the 2TB and been using it ever since.

 

[SteamyMeatballs]

You need to make sure your 1.5tb sd card is formatted as MBR not GPT partition scheme you can change it with minitool partition wizard without losing your data the switch wont read GPT and most high compacity cards come as GPT.

Thanks. Will try minitool partition wizard. I made the card FAT32 to start, didn't think GPT was an option for the older file system.

Edit: That wasn't it. Card was already MBR.

 

[such]

That's what I was wondering. I came upon another thread about 1.5Tb cards not being read or detected by emunand or hekate. So I set my new card up, and seeing an error upon attempting to boot into emunand from hekate. Is there another fix around for hekate or emunand to see the larger 1.5Tb cards?

If you still have your old card, or one that is detected and working, try using HDD Raw Copy to basically duplicate it onto your 1.5Tb, then extend partition to make use of the additional space. Just note that this will take a while, so the smaller the source card the faster it'll go. When I had issues with SXOS detecting SD cards this solved them for me.

 

[JCSwitch]

Been using the 2tb card since the holiday. Formatted Fat32 MBR with rufus, tested with h2testw. After verification I copied everything from the 1TB card to the 2TB and been using it ever since.

How did you copy it, when i tried to clone it in the passed it only showed the size of the old sdcard, and i couldnt boot if i tried to change the size with partition magic

 

[l7777]

How did you copy it, when i tried to clone it in the passed it only showed the size of the old sdcard, and i couldnt boot if i tried to change the size with partition magic

I don't use an emunand so I can copy everything via drag & drop.

You can copy MOST of a partition based emunand but need to use Hekate to backup/restore the emunand and create the emunand partition. Instructions

 

[worm28]

Your card might be fake test it with this h2testw.

 

[chrisrlink]

i would say 1tb is good (especially if you have a large library of games too bad nintendo didn't keep yjrit promise to allow hdd's in dock mode (it was a feature that was scrapped my thought because of SXOS) i wonder if the switch 2 will have hdd capability while docked considering games will be 64gb and up maybe a future update will allow it

 

[Temptress Cerise]

SanDisk does sell 1.5TB microSD cards but they're very expensive. 256GB is about enough for EmuNAND + games.

I upgraded from a 1TB with EmuNAND to a 1.5TB because I was dangerously low on space lol

If I had the money I would have done a 2TB. Oh well.

 

[SylverReZ]

I upgraded from a 1TB with EmuNAND to a 1.5TB because I was dangerously low on space lol

Which capacity microSD card did you use? Previously, I had a 256GB microSD in my Switch v1 that is Kingston branded. Never had any problems so far in terms of partitioning the card or running out of space. 256GB is about the minimum requirement for EmuNAND, and it was the cheapest that I could get; however, it's best to go with something higher like 512GB or 1TB as you had mentioned if you want to install a whole lot of games.

Spoiler: Side tangent

An emuMMC/emuNAND partition is around 32GB, then a separate NAND backup as a file (which is required for restoring in-case of a brick) also 32GB, which in total uses up about 64GB of space on the card. This can be quite problematic with 128GB or lower cards which will tell you that Hekake failed to create it because of insufficient space.