Hardware Best Cluster Size for Fat32 64GB SD card?

[shado9573]

Hello,
I want to use FAT32 on my SD Card.
Since I've faced many corruption issues using ExFat.
I want to know what's the best and optimal cluster size for my 64GB sd card?

 

[m4xw]

FAT32 always 32kb, nothing else.

 

[shado9573]

FAT32 always 32kb, nothing else.

Regardless of SD card size?

 

[lukands]

32. I made that mistake once where I had the wrong cluster size and nothing worked, took me a lot Googling to figure out that simple mistake.

 

[m4xw]

Regardless of SD card size?

Man I already marked the always big and fat and said "nothing else", what more should i say?

 

[shado9573]

There's always a specific reason to why.
Since I couldn't know why exactly the reason and google didn't help me either.

 

[m4xw]

There's always a specific reason to why.
Since I couldn't know why exactly the reason and google didn't help me either.

Causes undefined behaviour in many implementations.

 

[Supreme23]

FAT32 always 32kb, nothing else.

Can you explain why please?

 

[m4xw]

Can you explain why please?

Causes undefined behaviour in many implementations.

 

[Supreme23]

Checkpoint and Edizon have been crashing since I reformatted to fat32. I used allocation unit size 4096 bytes on my 256gb microsd. Do I need to reformat again to 32kb?

 

[m4xw]

Checkpoint and Edizon have been crashing since I reformatted to fat32. I used allocation unit size 4096 bytes on my 256gb microsd. Do I need to reformat again to 32kb?

Worth a shot.
Undefined behaviour is a bitch

 

[Supreme23]

Believe my problem was a fake samsung microsd

 

[IncredulousP]

Don't remember where, but I read that you should just use the default value that the card wants when formatting. Also, use the official sd formatter program from SD Association. I personally have not had any issues doing this, but if someone else could explain why this isn't good advice, I'd love an explanation and a source.

 

[Deleted User]

Don't remember where, but I read that you should just use the default value that the card wants when formatting. Also, use the official sd formatter program from SD Association. I personally have not had any issues doing this, but if someone else could explain why this isn't good advice, I'd love an explanation and a source.

You can't use the SD Formatter because it won't allow you to change the file system to FAT32 on larger cards.

 

[chyron8472]

use the official sd formatter program from SD Association. I personally have not had any issues doing this, but if someone else could explain why this isn't good advice, I'd love an explanation and a source.

I can not confirm, but I read on a GameFAQs thread the claim that 1) Nintendo's exFAT driver is shoddy and has the potential for corrupting data; 2) the Switch doesn't create individual files larger than 4GB anyway; and 3) (as has been said) the SD Card Formatter from sdcard.org doesn't opt to use FAT32 on larger cards.

You can format larger cards to FAT32, but you just need formatting software that will let you do so. "fat32format" or its GUI counterpart "guiformat" (just google it) will do this, and it lets you even use even enormous SD cards and HDDs on a Wii, so it should also work on a Switch.