For christmas I was looking into getting a 128 gb micro sd card for my brother and a sd card converter. His laptop is kinda old I think but it has windows 10 on it. It has a SD card slot on it so I'm hoping it can accept the card via converter. His laptop only has 30 gb hard drive on it so that's why I wanna get him a sd card. He bought himself a 8 gb one so I wanna upgrade it for him. The reason I don't get a usb drive or external hard drive is he had a external hard drive that had a wire that got worn out cause he moved around alot and it had a bit of wear and tear. It's kinda a nuisance really. I figure usb drives wouldn't be any cheaper anyway and would just be in the way.
How old are we talking? Anything past 2008, 2009 or so should support SDHC. Otherwise you're limited to 2GB cards.
If I'm not mistaken, with 128GB cards we've moved out of SDHC and into SDXC (sp?) territory. But in the end it's all in the software, so it depends on what OS you're running. Win 10 should be OK.
As long as it support SDHC that is, but you're right my bad about SDXC. SDHC requires the proper hardware.
I won't know how old it is till he stops by later tonight. I plan on using a converter that fits in the SD card slot. So since it supports 8 GB cards it has to be SDHC tho.
If you format it as fat32 i believe it doesnt matter at that point. But then you are limited to 4gb file sizes.
It really doesn't matter since its all software side, You say its running W10? then it will have no problem reading it. As tofumonsterman said you could always format it into fat32 but that comes with file size limitations so IDK maybe go NTFS if all else fails.
The default for SDXC is ExFAT, which is a fs specifically aimed at flash media (unlike NTFS & FAT32). I'd recommend just sticking with that, unless you need to also read the card on some older PC. Mind you, that would mean one that understands SDXC but not ExFAT, which you need to go out of your way to find - eg some WinXP machine with third-party SDXC drivers.
