RPi SD cards e. Linux. SD cards. The SD card is a key part of the Raspberry Pi it provides the initial storage for the Operating System and files. Storage can be extended through many types of USB connected peripherals. When the Raspberry Pi is switched on, i. SD card that is used to start up the Raspberry Pi. If there is no SD card inserted, it will not start. Do NOT push in or pull out an SD card while the Raspberry Pi is connected to the power, as this is likely to corrupt the SD card data you might get away with it, but it is best not to. The SD card must be formatted, or written to, in a special way that means the Raspberry Pi can read the data it needs to start properly. If you are new to this check the instructions, or buy a pre formatted SD card. Tomorrows Technology. Next generation Spyder technology comes with a compact, portable and protected colorimeter. Weve redesigned Spyders patented 7. Ares AEG L22A1 4 x Full Metal SUSAT Included As best to the real thing where it goes in the AEG range Metal Body and Carry Handle. Spyder 4 Elite Serial Number' title='Spyder 4 Elite Serial Number' />One advantage to using an SD card like this is that you can have several SD cards, each with a different operating system, or a different purpose. Simply power off, switch cards, and reconnect the power. You have a different computer to play with. Please bear in mind that the maximum throughput of the card reader of the Raspberry Pi is 2. MBs and that most likely read and write speed wont exceed 2. MBs. Which SD card SD cards come in three physical sizes see picture. The Raspberry Pi A and B use the largest one the mini. SD card and the Micro. SD card can be used in those models, but you will need an adapter holder to fit it. The Raspberry Pi B and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B second generation require the smallest one, the Micro. SD. SD cards come in a range of storage sizes. You will likely need more than 2 GB. There are other properties of SD cards that are not covered here. Read the Wikipedia article for those details. Other SD card content. See the following links for other information. Preinstalled SD cards. You might like to consider buying a preinstalled card a wide range of branded SD cards preinstalled with operating systems are available. If you dont buy a preinstalled card, you will have to create one yourself. Check the SD Card setup page to help you make this decision. That page also shows where these cards can be bought from. Verification. Users have listed working and non working cards here. The SD Card Association suggests there are more than 4. These are just a few. Is this reliableUnfortunately there is little scope for analysis of the failures given below. There are several reasons why a card may not work. You will notice that the same card may be shown as working and not working the model numbers on cards do seem to be confusing. Raspberry Pi boards had a problem with Class 1. This has been fixed. Linux distributions have been improved since the initial release the Raspberry Pi can suffer from performance problems if peripherals are drawing too much power from the power supply one of the consequences is errors from the SD card unless using a preinstalled card, users have to copy a distribution image to the SD card. This might be considered more technical than the user has previously experienced, resulting in a faulty SD card there are many cheap Chinese copies of brand name SD Cards on the market, in addition they are often mislabelled as having greater capacity than they really have, see San. Disk counterfeit cards. Technical Information. Note that manufacturers change their designs over time, even as the specs stay the same. E. g. an ACME 8 GB class 4 card manufactured in 2. For this reason, please specify product numbers in the lists below, when possible. You can also attach the following fields from your cards CID. Working Non working SD cards. The table can be sorted using the triangles in the top row. Please add entries in the correct location, so that the initial sort is by Manufacturer, Type, Size and Class. Keep separate entries for working and non working. Put your user name and date in the final column, so people can judge if the problem is still likely to occur. SD0. 8G hwrev 0x. Jun 2. 01. 2. S0rce 8 Jun 2. Speedy MMAGF0. 2GWMCA NA. Oostenvr 4 Jul 2. Stevhorn 1. 4 Aug 2. Possibly a bit slow. Stiff to pull out of the PI. James. C 2. 4 Apr 2. Blutme 1. 7 Aug 2. MMB3. F0. 8GWMCA GE. Timishier 1. 0 Jun 2. MMAGR0. 8GUDCA DB. Dattaway. Florz 2. May 2. 01. 2, Dattaway 1. Jun 2. 01. 2. AUSDH8. GCL1. 0 R, P SDH8. G1. 0 EC, ASDH8. GCL1. R. Elatllat 2. Dec 2. Madcow. Jul 2. 01. Thenix 1. Jan 2. 01. SD hwrev 0x. 1 fwrev 0x. Semtex 2. 1 May 2. Jettis 5 Sep 2. 01. Nijntje 1. 8 May 2. GSDHC1. 0, ASDH1. GUICL1. 0 R. Captainralf 6 Jun 2. Jan 2. 01. 3, Copper. Head. 47. 50 2. 8 Jan 2. Tom. 3f 1. 3 Jul 2. Micro. SD w adapter. AF 1. 2 Jun 2. 01. AUSDH8. GUICL1. 0 RA1. Micro. SD w adapter. Apr 2. 01. 3,Elpadre 2. Nov1. 4. AUSDH1. GCL1. RA1. Frank. Jul 2. AUSDH1. GUICL1. 0 R. Raspberry Pi B. Aug 2. AUSDH1. GUICL1. 0 RA1. SD hwrev 0x. 0 fwrev 0x. Raspberry Pi B 2. AUSDH1. 6GUICL1. 0 RA1. Raspberry Pi 2 B 2. AUSDH1. 6GUICL1. 0 RA1. Raspberry Pi 2 B 2. OK after running update Mar 2. AUSDH1. GUICL1. 0 RA1. Raspberry Pi B 2. Mar 2. 01. 5. AUSDH1. GUICL1. 0 RA1. Raspberry Pi B 2. Mar 2. 01. 5. AUSDH3. GCL1. 0 RA1. 2. 01. AIgn. 10 6 Jun 2. May 2. 01. 3. with adapter ENAAJK1. Ma. We 1. 3 Aug 2. We have had a 5. 0 failure rate on these with file system corruption, even with write protection enabled, with Raspian. June 2. 01. 3. Reid 7 Jun 2. Tested 2. 4 Jun 2. M3ch. 4 2. 6 Jun 2. Jun 2. 01. 2. S0rce 8 Jun 2. Lrosengreen 1. 6 Aug 2. Card from Aliexpress, doesnt boot, tested on RPi B rev 2. Astarta 2. 01. 5 1. Card from Aliexpress, Tested on RPi B. Kimvais 2. 01. 5 0. Hamish 1. 3 Aug 2. AP3. 2GMCSH1. 0U1 R. NOOBS image will not extract on PI 2 1. G, but extracted ok on PI 5. Paul. K 6 Aug 2. 01. Does not boot io error from dmesg with os running from usb. Jettis 5 Sep 2. 01. Jasen 8 Jun 2. 01. Dick Jones, 2. 4 Sept 2. Uberfoo 2. 3 Jul 2. Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Riverstyxxx 7 Feb 2. GBSDHC SilverBlack label says High Capacity Card Maplins. San. Disk 4. GB Class 4 card. Ceptimus 2 Jun 2. MBs, read 2. 0. 1 MBs. Jan 2. 01. 3. CMMICROSDCL48. Amor Estranho Amor Completo Dublado Pokemon there. GB. man 0x. 00. 00. NCard hwrev 0x. 1 fwrev 0x. Dick Jones, 4 Dec 2. Error 1. 10 whilst initialising sd card. Mar 2. 01. 3. Elatllat 2. Dec 2. 01. 1. Pro 2. X DEMS1. 6GB2. 68. ENBA. Ivazquez 1. Aug 2. 01. 2. works with Fedora Beefy Miracle 1. Gersh 7 Jun 2. 01. James. C 1. 4 Apr 2. This 8. GB DSE SD S6. G1. 13. 7 works fine on latest Raspbian as at Dec 2. Sauce 3 Dec 2. 01. Churchill 1 Jun 2. Semtex 2. 1 May 2. Semtex 2. 1 May 2. SD hwrev 0x. 1 fwrev 0x. MBs read, 4. 4. MBs write on debian. Bedevere 5 Jul 2. SD0. 2G hwrev 0x. Incyi 7 Jul 2. 01. Sandisk 1. 6gb Class 1. Declension 8 Aug 2. Korban 1. 8 Aug 2. MBs read 1. 4 MBs write in dd man 0x. SMI hwrev 0x. 1 fwrev 0x. Micro. SD w adapter for Model B. Both Raspmc and Open. Elec tries to boot, but throws lots of errors. June 2. 01. 3. 2. ECMMDM3. 2GHC1. 0. SD3. 2G hwrev 0x. Jessie on Ras. Pi. F0. F0. F hwrev 0x. Fjen 1. 0 May 2. 01. SMI hwrev 0x. 1 fwrev 0x. Marked Hyperformance. Mathieu. MD 2. 9 Oct 2. NCard hwrev 0x. 1 fwrev 0x. Crashmeplease 2. 8 Jul 2. Paul 2. 6 Aug 2. 01. Sep 2. 01. 4. Genericunbranded. CRCGS0. 8GHBRT JCCBFEA 1. OJ. wont boot RP2 B. Urraca 3. 0 Nov 2. Genericunbranded. RP B. dweggg 1. Jun 2. SDC8. GHC1. 0PGRR9. MPastuszko 1. July 2. Chmurli 9 Jun 2. Mojca 2. Jun 2. Druss 5 Aug 2. FF TSDG1. 6GA C1. GKontadakis Jim Kastrinakis the toxic duet of IT 3. Aug 2. 01. 3. Flatline. May 2. 01. 2. FF TSDG3. GA C1. 0. Raspberry Pi 2 B. Turaiel 7 Apr 2. 01. Raspberry Pi v. 1 B w Retro. PIE v. 3. 0. Zev 6 Sept 2. Mikerr 5 Jul 2. 01. Bubblebobble 1. 7 May 2. Hema Dutch dept. Frankivo 2. Jun 2. Tested with Raspbian dd resize and works without issues. Sebastian. B 2. 1 Jun 2. Hema Dutch dept. Hjongste 1. Jun 2. SD0. 8G hwrev 0x. Nkt. 00. 12. 5 0. Aug 2. 01. 3. doesnt reboot during first time startup process, but restart again and fine after that. Semtex 2. 1 May 2. Harkin 2. 8 Jun 2. Curly. Mo 1 Aug 2. It boots shows Xserver. Bjorn. W 2. 6 May 2. Wieltje 1. 3 Jun 2.