Best Storage Solution for 4K movies/images...

[jongilluley]

Well I've been getting 4k movies ready for my z5p and the size of them is massive...

Worried that my current 64Gb micro sd would be full after one film I went and bought a 200Gb one direct from SanDisk (I'm not trusting anyone on eBay when it comes to memory cards)

And all I can say is its fantastic! You get about 189GB out of the box and after transferring all 34Gb of images and music off my other card I can also say it's fast!

I paid £116 Gbp for it from SanDisk direct.

 

[jongilluley]

Boxed Product

 

[Mobfigurz]

I opted for a Samsung 128gb, that was not my first choice though, I wanted the Lexar 128gb as it had a very fast read and write speed but was out of stock and coming in at around £70.
The Samsung cost me £40-£50 as a prime deal on Amazon, only reason I got it.

 

[NJ72]

I've had the 128GB SanDisk card for about a year now, since I bought an LG G4 back in April 2015 and it's been great. Moved over to the Xperia Z5P and still great. The only thing I haven't tried is recording 4K video to it on the Z5P, but the performance when recording 4K on the G4 was absolutely great.

 

[FiDra]

Boxed Product

Hi,
How can you buy it directly from Sandisk? Can you share us?

Thanks!

 

[jongilluley]

Hi,
How can you buy it directly from Sandisk? Can you share us?

Thanks!

They sell direct on Amazon so type in SanDisk 200gb micro sd and u will them as the first option I think... Should say SanDisk in the seller name.

 

[sfex3best]

I bought a 128 gb micro sd sandisk ultra on amazon lightning deals for £30

 

[TamSE3P]

I have the same 200GB Sandisk card. It's great. I benchmarked mine through my Macbook and even with the phone to ensure it has appropriate write/read speeds and capacity so I know it's a real Sandisk card. Although I do have some issues transferring large files over 100mb onto it, specifically apps. Snooping around on forums though, found it may be more an issue with the firmware because it "times-out" when the software thinks it's taking too long to transfer so it just gives an error. Actually, if any of you guys have any insight on why I can't transfer large apps, I'd be all ears.

 

[Aftashok]

question.... where are you finding your 4K content for download at? PM me if need be.... I want to take more advantage of this screen.

 

[celestialz]

can Z5P use exFAT format? anyone try?

im using Sandisk Extreme PRO UHS-I 64GB U3. want to know exFAT will be better than FAT32?

 

[KbaB.BroS]

can Z5P use exFAT format? anyone try?

im using Sandisk Extreme PRO UHS-I 64GB U3. want to know exFAT will be better than FAT32?

That's what my sdcard is formatted at, but isn't FAT32 a newer technology optimized for bigger SDs?

Sent from my Xperia Z5 Premium using XDA Labs

 

[zacharias.maladroit]

That's what my sdcard is formatted at, but isn't FAT32 a newer technology optimized for bigger SDs?

Sent from my Xperia Z5 Premium using XDA Labs

Not really,

exFAT is Microsoft's proprietary successfor to FAT32 which had several limitations (including 4 GiB max file size, file and folder name limitations, no checksumming, etc.) which made it pretty

unsuitable for nowadays needs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT )


I hope that the acquisition of Sandisk by Western Digital will be allowed, a huge stockholder is planning (or already has) vetoed on the acquisition,

My experience with Sandisk microSD cards hasn't been the best in the past - also having read about several cards breaking after a rather short time.


Anway - back to offtopic: Sandisk afaik is the only one offering 200 GiB microSD's - so I hope it lives a long life for the OP


@celestialz

with Developer mode and adb shell you could actually see whether related kernel modules are loaded for it

(texfat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction-Safe_FAT_File_System)

edit:

just checked back again:

yeah, exFAT should work

 

[celestialz]

So exFAT is better then FAT32 for Z5P?

 

[Seyren Windsor]

So exFAT is better then FAT32 for Z5P?

Yep , Because exfat can storage file capacity more than 4GB. :fingers-crossed:

 

[lotusalex2000]

for Movies:
I use a externel Harddrive with 4TB .
For the Harddrive i use exFAT.
The Z5 Premium support only externel Harddrive with 12V power supply.
I try a lidl externel Drive with only USB Power supply and the Z5 Premium think it was only a USB Power supply and don't accept it as an externel Drive.
If you use a externel Harddisk with 4 TB and 12V, you need some time at the start. The Z5Premium check the harddisk at first, this needs 5min.
Then you can use the harddisk.