We use two BBB's here, and both use 16GB class 10 cards. I've heard that 32GB works too, but no hands on.
AS john said first you want more space( unused, or free space ) on your sd card to help facilitate wear leveling, *AND* if you're going to be doing lots of writing for development purposes. Move your rootfs to an NFS share. On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 3:05 AM, William Pretty Security < bill.pre...@xplornet.com> wrote: > Thanks John J > > > > > http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book > > > > *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com] > *On Behalf Of *John Syn > *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 11:48 PM > > *To:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB > > > > > > *From: *William Pretty Security <bill.pre...@xplornet.com> > *Reply-To: *"beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > *Date: *Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 7:58 PM > *To: *"beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > *Subject: *RE: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB > > > > Actually John, I’ve been having that exact problem ! > > > > How does ‘wear leveling’ work ? > > I have been using an external USB key as temp storage. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_leveling > > > > For development purposes, don’t use SDCards. Rather use NFS to mount a > rootfs on your desktop. > > > > In the field, use a read only rootfs and create a separate partition for > storage. Flash has to erase a block before writing a byte. If you have a > logging application, create a buffer in ram which is the size of your flash > erase block and write data to buffer and only write the buffer to disk when > the buffer is full. Alternatively, use a power fail detection circuitry and > only write to SDCard on power failure. There are a lot of techniques like > this that prolong the life of flash. > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > Bill > > > > > http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book > > > > *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com > <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>] *On Behalf Of *John Syn > *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 10:32 PM > *To:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB > > > > > > *From: *William Pretty Security <bill.pre...@xplornet.com> > *Reply-To: *"beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > *Date: *Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 6:51 PM > *To: *"beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > *Subject: *RE: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB > > > > Quite right, but given that Ubuntu with GUI is about 3GB, isn’t the other > 13 kind of a waste ?? > > Flash has a finite number of writes so with wear leveling, you want to > have a much free space as possible to prevent flash failure. If it is the > same price, always get the bigger one ;-) > > > > Regards, > > John > > > > > http://www.packtpub.com/building-a-home-security-system-with-beaglebone/book > > > > *From:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com [mailto:beagleboard@googlegroups.com > <beagleboard@googlegroups.com>] *On Behalf Of *John Syn > *Sent:* Thursday, July 17, 2014 8:32 PM > *To:* beagleboard@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB > > > > > > *From: *William Pretty Security <bill.pre...@xplornet.com> > *Reply-To: *"beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > *Date: *Thursday, July 17, 2014 at 4:14 PM > *To: *"beagleboard@googlegroups.com" <beagleboard@googlegroups.com> > *Subject: *RE: [beagleboard] Maximum SD card size for BBB > > > > You probably want about 8GB class 10 for sure. > > I don’t know if there is a maximum size of uSD card. > > 16GB is about the same price as 8GB. 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