Anyone tried USB SD-card reader with high-endurance SD card instead of USB-stick?
After I read some discussions about USB-stick wear-out due to continuous write to the stick, I wondered, if an USB SD-card reader plus one of these high endurance SD-cards would be a better solution. I could not find any high endurance USB sticks, but there are some brands (Kingston, SanDisk, Samsumg, Gigastone) that produce SD cards with SLC NAND-chips for e.g. video surveillance applications.
I got a cheap Kingston MobileLite Plus and a Gigastone SD-card, both work on my MAC, but when I connect it to Core One, it immediately crashes when I start the printer. When I start the printer without anything connected to the USB port and then connect the reader, it crashes as soon as it tries to read something from it.
I wonder, if anyone else has tried and was successful. Until then I will keep on using my USB stick until it breaks.
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After I read some discussions about USB-stick wear-out due to continuous write to the stick, I wondered, if an USB SD-card reader plus one of these high endurance SD-cards would be a better solution. I could not find any high endurance USB sticks, but there are some brands (Kingston, SanDisk, Samsumg, Gigastone) that produce SD cards with SLC NAND-chips for e.g. video surveillance applications.
I got a cheap Kingston MobileLite Plus and a Gigastone SD-card, both work on my MAC, but when I connect it to Core One, it immediately crashes when I start the printer. When I start the printer without anything connected to the USB port and then connect the reader, it crashes as soon as it tries to read something from it.
I wonder, if anyone else has tried and was successful. Until then I will keep on using my USB stick until it breaks.
I use a micro-SD reader with a SanDisk Ultra 64GB. I created an 8GB partition and formatted it as FAT32. Works well for me and is low profile as well. How large is the SD card? Try partitioning it like I did.
Also, I've found that certain brands of SD-card don't work. I use MacOS as well but I've been formatting with Windows because MacOS leave hidden files for indexing and the previous incarnation of my printer the MK4S couldn't deal with that for some reason. I could try formatting on MacOS and see if the latest firmware can deal with it.