Misc Nintendo Switch Oled Rawnand.bin Size?

[wisnumurti]

Hello Guys, I want to know what the general size of Rawnand.bin for Switch Oled.
I just dump for the first time and the size around 58,2 GB (62.537.072.640 bytes), is it normal?
This is because as far as I know previous switch version Rawnand.bind size around 29-32 GB.

I hope anyone can give opinion on this, thanks.

 

[Donnie-Burger]

Hello Guys, I want to know what the general size of Rawnand.bin for Switch Oled.
I just dump for the first time and the size around 58,2 GB (62.537.072.640 bytes), is it normal?
This is because as far as I know previous switch version Rawnand.bind size around 29-32 GB.

I hope anyone can give opinion on this, thanks.

Correct since oleds are 64gb.

 

[wisnumurti]

Correct since oleds are 64gb.

So Rawnand.bin size equal to the size of Switch internal storage? Not the size of the actual HOS (Switch operating system). Thanks for the information @Donnie-Burger .

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[Neofromxda]

So Rawnand.bin size equal to the size of Switch internal storage? Not the size of the actual HOS (Switch operating system). Thanks for the information @Donnie-Burger .

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Yessir. RAW Nand is littlerally the whole emmc. it can be shrunk afaik

 

[Snomannen_kalle]

Yessir. RAW Nand is littlerally the whole emmc. it can be shrunk afaik

Correct; if the eMMC is mostly empty, it could easily be compressed to one tenth of the size. One of my v1 Switch backups is roughly 3.5GB compressed with WinRAR, even with a couple of games installed on internal memory

 

[Hayato213]

Hello Guys, I want to know what the general size of Rawnand.bin for Switch Oled.
I just dump for the first time and the size around 58,2 GB (62.537.072.640 bytes), is it normal?
This is because as far as I know previous switch version Rawnand.bind size around 29-32 GB.

I hope anyone can give opinion on this, thanks.

The OLED has 64GB internal memory.

 

[mspy]

Can someone confirm if we use a tool like 7zip to compress the rawnand.bin file BEFORE installing any games that uses lots of space on the internal memory we would end up with a file with just a few GB in size since pretty much the bulk of the rawnand.bin file is just zeros corresponding to the never before used empty space of the memory?

 

[wisnumurti]

Can someone confirm if we use a tool like 7zip to compress the rawnand.bin file BEFORE installing any games that uses lots of space on the internal memory we would end up with a file with just a few GB in size since pretty much the bulk of the rawnand.bin file is just zeros corresponding to the never before used empty space of the memory?

I will try with my rawnand.bin, I backup before install any game. I will give the result after I finished.

 

[wisnumurti]

After I try comrpess it into 7z format with the highest setting I get my 7z file around 595 MB (624.615.424 bytes) Size on disk and 602 MB (631.877.516 bytes) Size.

 

[mspy]

After I try comrpess it into 7z format with the highest setting I get my 7z file around 595 MB (624.615.424 bytes) Size on disk and 602 MB (631.877.516 bytes) Size.

As I suspected! Pretty good option to save some space.
Thou I don't think you will get that sort of downsize if you happen to have installed games on the internal memory of your Switch to the point that it is almost full and do the backup after that (even if you uninstall the games before doing the backup).