Sd cards lifespan with Lakka

Libretro Lakka
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Hello friends, This will be a long message… First of all my configuration: i have an odroid xu4, 8gb emmc (with lakka installed), 64gb micro sdcard (with all 8/16 bit systems supported + FBa + Mame) and a 320gb usb3 hdd almost filled with psp and psx isos. Two days ago my 64gb micro sdcard died… It was 1 year old, sandisk ultra. I writed on it 4 times: First time i filled it with all roms uncompressed + fba 0.2.97.36 Second time i formatted it and rewrited all roms Third time i updated fba to 0.2.97.38 Fourth time i started to load it with mame 2003 roms. During the filecopy of mame 2003 i noticed something strange, fba folder icon was the classic empty folder icon, i tried yo open it but access was denied because of some error… I canceled filecopy of mame 2003, inside the mame2003 folder there was many files and directories with garbaged filenames! Tried to run chkdsk usuccessfully, so i decided to transfer all roms back to my pc for a sdcard format. I wasn’t able to copy some files back because of errors on sdcard access… I formatted and the sdcard didn’t format to ntfs… I formatted to fat32 and it formatted successfully, then i started to copy back rom files, the copy went ok but sdcard shows garbaged filenames and directories, now i’m able to format it ONLY exFAT filesystem but it doesn’t accept any files, windows tell the partition is RAW… Now the question, i noticed blue led of odroid xu4 is continuosly blinking… Is that some sort of data access led? What happen when a game si loaded? Is it uncompressed in ram? Or into sdcard? (Or maybe emmc) is there some sort of continuos data read/write to sdcard or was i simply unlucky with that micro sdcard :slight_smile: ? Can i put all to hdd? Including lakka system? Thanks to all! Juri

#2

Hi, my sugestion is, use other computer to format the sdcard because that is odd behavior from OS,each folder shouldnt have more than 500 files our the OS will do silly things

#3

thank you @jcam79, i tried with 2 pc and a smartphone, no way to format it in ntfs and smartphone was able to format it in Fat32, however after moving some files directory screw up… i throw it in the bin! i didn’t know about the 500 files inside a folder… err… i moved all roms to the usb3 hdd and placed a 16gb sdcar with thumbnails (ntfs formatted). fortunately the 16gb accomadated all snapshots pictures :slight_smile: thanks again