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  • #121595
    charco
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    Planning on upgrading to a Pi 3 and Retropie 3.6 and was considering a bigger SD card, will a 128GB card work?

    #121598
    InsecureSpike
    Participant

    i’d suggest a smaller gb sd card say 4gb – 8gb (x2) then get your self a 128gb usb drive, as using such a large sd card could run into issues if corrupted, then all your roms will be lost,
    with a usb drive you can keep all the retropie system bits on the sd card and have your roms on the usb drive, separate & safe

    these are what i use, the SD cards seem to take lots of rewriting too,

    4gb Kingston SD card

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/221391598329?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

    128gb Kingston USB drive

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371052738512?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

    #121599
    shoothere
    Participant

    I would second InsecureSpike’s advice. Also if an update goes boink you don’t have to copy all the roms/saves/scrapes again, just a new SD card and go go go!

    It is much cheaper as well and USB sticks are not very big so size shouldn’t be a problem either.

    #121613
    charco
    Participant

    Great advice, thanks guys! I hadn’t thought of a USB pen drive as I thought roms couldn’t be loaded off them. Maybe there were issues with an older version of RetroPie that have since been resolved.

    With the Pi 3 having wifi and bluetooth that frees up USB ports too. I’ll look into a new high capacity pen drive so :)

    #121643
    jsawhi
    Participant

    I can attest to 128G SD cards working fine. I have 2 of them, one in my pi2 and one in my pi3… Both work great, although I can appreciate not having to copy all the roms over every time I rebuild the SD card…

    #121645
    InsecureSpike
    Participant

    there nothing wrong with using 128gb cards, but this is what i’m trying to say, what happens if your card corrupts? or god forbid, an update fails or encounters a problem?

    #121653
    charco
    Participant

    Yeah that makes sense, I have put off upgrading for a while now due to having to transfer all of my roms again.

    #121815
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Has anyone thought of getting – or has gotten already – one of the 314GB PiDrive hard drives.

    Been looking into these over the last couple of days and been thinking it might be a good option. Faster than a USB drive, and ooodles of storage.

    #121819
    InsecureSpike
    Participant

    should be good, just format it to ext4

    #122051
    Anonymous
    Inactive

    Can I just jump in here and ask what you have to do to get the Roms to copy and save to the stick? I use a usb drive to copy Roms to the Pie, but I was unaware that you could launch them off of it.

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