[Q] MicroSD capacity?

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Anyone know what size AND speed MicroSD card the DInc2 supports up to?

I would love a link to somewhere that gives the specs...

And maybe even a link to a good deal on cards?

Thanks!

By claiming to support microSDHC (micro secure digital high capacity, SD 2.0), they are kinda required by specification to support any card that follows the microSDHC standard. I know this doesn't always happen, but that's the way it SHOULD be.

With that said, I have a 32gb class 4 card in my I2. 32gb is the limit to the microSDHC (rather, limit to SD 2.0) standard, so I suspect any microSDHC card will work.

There is no explicit support for microSDXC (micro secure digital extended capacity, SD 3.0 and 4.0, the standard that allows for up to 2tb capacity by its definition, though I think 128gb is the biggest available at the moment, and those are expensive and hard to find). Apparently the specifications allow for SDHC (and microSDHC) hosts to support SDXC cards at SDHC speeds as long as the host supports a filesystem that can format a volume larger than 32gb (FAT32 has some addressing and table allocation limits, which is why Microsoft stopped using it for primary volumes). Considering Android uses FAT32 and not exFAT (Microsoft updated version of FAT that is more efficient with larger volumes, doesn't have the low addressing limits, and optimized for flash media), I would not count on it properly supporting SDXC quite yet.

I found a Spec List that at least confirms your 32GB figure, but I am still in the dark about what class the DInc2 supports up to.
Anyone?
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It SHOULD (key word: should) support up to class 10. However, this may be dependent on model of card. I know the Eris would work with some class 6 cards in the higher capacities, and not others, and would only work with lower capacity class 10 cards.

Best I can suggest is to buy and try. Make sure you buy from somewhere with a good return policy so that you can return a card that doesn't work with your I2. I will say the Kingston Class 4 32gb card has no problem handling the 720p recording.

Is there a way to check what kind of data transfer rates are occurring? Or would the card be unusable/unrecognized if the class was unsupported effectively letting me know?

If the controller/device supports a higher class card, it will work with it at the highest speed possible, either limited by the card or the controller.

If the device doesn't like the card, you'll generally know pretty quickly. I've only seen one instance of a device not handling a card well and displaying that fact through data corruption and it wasn't with an Android device (it was a cheap digital camera). On the Eris, the card just wouldn't be read/would indicate it's bad.