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ronaldh

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I have just started a holiday in Japan, immediately prior to which I bought (on Amazon) a Sandisk Extreme Pro95mb/s 64gb card and formatted it on SD formatter (not sure if that is the correct name of the freeware , with a full overwrite asrecommended by Overgaard and others.

 

It appears to work and replays normally in camera, but when I tried to back it up on my Hyperdrive it shows an error message " memory card isn't FAT16/FAT32 (ERRID FF05)".

 

Does this just mean that the Hyperdrive does not accept a 64gb card or is there a problem with the card?

 

Thanks

 

Ronnie

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Your diagnosis is probably right. It may well be that your Hyperdrive does not accept SDHX cards.

However many complaints in this forum arise from these huge cards.

I am really puzzled what the need is. Not only do they appear to be wobbly technology, what happens if the card fails/is lost/is eaten by the dog/cut to pieces by a samurai before you have come around to backing it up?

It is so much safer to use a number of smaller cards.

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I use SanDisk 16GB cards, and am happy with them, they fit enough picture and to be honest, I never get them full... as so it feels. I don't 'machine gun' with my Leica M, so even a 8GB card would suffice for normal shooting... with the M6 I have to change 'cards' every 36so pictures... so changing every 400 images is okay for me. I actually have to change the battery around that time to so its great! :)

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I just bought 10 16 gig San Disk Extreme from B & H as they are relatively cheap. I found I had too many cameras to feed and ended up leaving the house with not enough memory on me. My wife would agree to that :D I previously bought the same card in 8 gig which are getting harder to find.

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I have 2 Sandisk Extreme 64G cards (45mb/s) (Class 10) SDXC that read fine in a Hyperdrive Colorspace. One is used on M240 and the other in a D800e. Both formatted with SDFormatter. I would see if you can read the card in a computer. If yes, there is obviously an issue with the Hyperdrive. If no, then I would stop using the card.

 

BTW, I know there are risks with larger cards, but there are also risks in getting close to the card capacity. The 64G cards habe been reliable for me (knock wood) and I never get close to filling them before they get reformatted.

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Thanks Alan. Do you have the original Hyperdrive (which I have) or V2? I don't have a computer with me but to be on the safe side have switched to a smaller card.

 

Ronnie

I have Colorspace UDMA 2. Hope you can resolve but going to a smaller card is smart in the circumstances.

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