Quick question about upgrading my SD card

[BlueCrosser]

Everything's updated to the current versions.

So I just format my new 128 GB card to Fat32 with a cluster size of 32kb and transfer everything over to it?

 

[godreborn]

Cluster size of 64KB for that size.

 

[CoolMe]

Everything's updated to the current versions.

So I just format my new 128 GB card to Fat32 with a cluster size of 32kb and transfer everything over to it?

You might want to check the new sd card with h2testw to see if it's faulty and/or fake,but it's up to you, i Highly recommend you do so as it'll saves you from any corruption related hassles in the long run. And yes, copy and paste everything that is on the old sdcard to the new one.

 

[BlueCrosser]

You might want to check the new sd card with h2testw to see if it's faulty and/or fake,but it's up to you, i Highly recommend you do so as it'll saves you from any corruption related hassles in the long run. And yes, copy and paste everything that is on the old sdcard to the new one.

Ah ok, better to be safe. Thanks

 

[CoolMe]

Ah ok, better to be safe. Thanks

It'll take some time, but not awfully long. Check both read & write not just write.

 

[BlueCrosser]

You might want to check the new sd card with h2testw to see if it's faulty and/or fake,but it's up to you, i Highly recommend you do so as it'll saves you from any corruption related hassles in the long run. And yes, copy and paste everything that is on the old sdcard to the new one.

This is within reason right?

The media is likely to be defective.
119.0 GByte OK (249641904 sectors)
552 KByte DATA LOST (1104 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
552 KByte corrupted (1104 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000087efd400
Expected: 0x0000000087efd400
Found: 0x0000000000000000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 32.2 MByte/s
Reading speed: 76.2 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

 

[lone_wolf323]

This is within reason right?

The media is likely to be defective.
119.0 GByte OK (249641904 sectors)
552 KByte DATA LOST (1104 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
552 KByte corrupted (1104 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000087efd400
Expected: 0x0000000087efd400
Found: 0x0000000000000000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 32.2 MByte/s
Reading speed: 76.2 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

Was the card fully empty yes? Any results where it says the card is likely to be defective is a bad thing.

 

[BlueCrosser]

Was the card fully empty yes? Any results where it says the card is likely to be defective is a bad thing.

It was brand new from Amazon. I formatted it to Fat32 and a cluster of 64kb. Is there a certain brand I should get? I bought a SanDisk Ultra.

 

[Kwyjor]

Depending on the vendor you purchased the card from, it could conceivably be a fake with SanDisk's name on it.

 

[BlueCrosser]

Depending on the vendor you purchased the card from, it could conceivably be a fake with SanDisk's name on it.

I don't think so, it was Amazons Choice. From what I've seen the fakes are 2GB drives disguised as 14GB. Stuff Like that. My SD card was 128GB and showed in my PC as 120GB which is normal. The test came up 119GB were good and some issues with half a megabyte.

119.0 GByte OK (249641904 sectors)
552 KByte DATA LOST (1104 sectors)

 

[lone_wolf323]

I don't think so, it was Amazons Choice. From what I've seen the fakes are 2GB drives disguised as 14GB. Stuff Like that. My SD card was 128GB and showed in my PC as 120GB which is normal. The test came up 119GB were good and some issues with half a megabyte.

119.0 GByte OK (249641904 sectors)
552 KByte DATA LOST (1104 sectors)

which means the cards starting to go bad. ive seen way more of the 64gb and 128gb plus for cards thats are fakes. I dont really care if its amazons choice. fakes do work their way into supplies. and it seems you found one.

 

[BlueCrosser]

which means the cards starting to go bad. ive seen way more of the 64gb and 128gb plus for cards thats are fakes. I dont really care if its amazons choice. fakes do work their way into supplies. and it seems you found one.

Ok, any suggestions for brand of SD Card?

The main reason I got a new card was because my 64GB card wasn't installing certain 3ds games. But after transferring everything to the 128GB those games are still not installing.

 

[Kwyjor]

my 64GB card wasn't installing certain 3ds games.

So does that mean you were getting an error message, or what?

Were you installing these games from your own carts? Because there is absolutely untrustworthy stuff on the Internet.

 

[CoolMe]

This is within reason right?

The media is likely to be defective.
119.0 GByte OK (249641904 sectors)
552 KByte DATA LOST (1104 sectors)
Details:0 KByte overwritten (0 sectors)
0 KByte slightly changed (< 8 bit/sector, 0 sectors)
552 KByte corrupted (1104 sectors)
0 KByte aliased memory (0 sectors)
First error at offset: 0x0000000087efd400
Expected: 0x0000000087efd400
Found: 0x0000000000000000
H2testw version 1.3
Writing speed: 32.2 MByte/s
Reading speed: 76.2 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4

It may seem small but since it has some defective sectors you can't know if it'll spread even more to other sectors, that'll cause corruption to the files stored in the sdcard, and it'll do once it reaches (and tries to either read or write) that sector, sooner or later.
I would get a replacement, Samsung ones are good, but there's a lot of counterfeit/fakes out there even on Amazon and the like, once you have a visual inspection you can look for faults (you can Google Samsung sdcard fake vs genuine to get an idea) in the sd card to see if it's a fake or genuine, if you can get it from an electronic store that sells them instead if you don't wanna deal with online stuff. And even then you still need to test it with the program.