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Recommended USB drive for dashcam
- Thread starter Shygar
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Got this on sale for 24.99, faster than SanDisk and doesn't seem to have the overheating problem.
Samsung 128GB FIT Plus USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 300MB/s (MUF-128AB/AM)
Are you a human?
Samsung 128GB FIT Plus USB 3.1 Flash Drive, Speed Up to 300MB/s (MUF-128AB/AM)
Are you a human?
Knightshade
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Again- all the ports on the car are USB 2.0.
"faster" is irrelevant. The car can't talk to devices anywhere near that fast. USB2 max speed is 60 MB/s...and even that is way faster than the drive needs to actually write to handle the current dashcam video speed reported.
I got the same Samsung USB drive. For me the reason was not the 3.1 drive but the rugged specs of the drive being able to tolerates much higher and lower temperature extremes beyond most other USB drives I looked at.
Knightshade
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I mean, technically... yes.. but given how tiny the files are (we're talking a few hundred megs for a 10 minute clip) you're talking a difference of like 1-2 seconds at most.
By all means buy based on reliability of a brand- but speed is utterly irrelevant for this purpose.
I have been using relatively cheap USB 2.0 Kingston 16GB drives (bought a bunch of them when they were on sales) on both our X and 3. They seems to work perfectly so far.
https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-Digital-DataTraveler-DTSE9H-16GBZ/dp/B006W8U2WU/
Eno Deb
Active Member
I purchased a couple of these compact 32GB drives from Samsung:
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MUF-32AB-AM-Plus-32GB/dp/B07D7SX9NS
They are currently on sale for $10, don't stick out a lot and are rated for very low and very high temperatures.
https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-MUF-32AB-AM-Plus-32GB/dp/B07D7SX9NS
They are currently on sale for $10, don't stick out a lot and are rated for very low and very high temperatures.
Edgewood Dome
Member
Are we certain it does not do Audio Playback if it is also being used for the Dashcam? Has anyone tried? I don't remember reading that it cannot in the Tesla documents, so I'd like to know where this comes from.
Eno Deb
Active Member
You can create two partitions on the USB drive and use one for TeslaCam and the other for music.
insaneoctane
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This product has a rechargeable battery and doesn't read/write AND wifi at the same time. Bummer. Any other suggestion here?
GPinzone
Member
BTW, Windows 7 only can read the first partition of a flash drive unless that flash drive has its "removable bit" turned off. There's a utility from Lexar that might be able to switch it. Windows 10 with the latest updates can handle multiple partitions just fine no matter the kind of USB flash drive you have. I partitioned mine and can read both partitions just fine on my Windows 10 PC. My old Windows 7 laptop does not. You can install alternative drivers for Windows 7 to get around this issue, too.
KentuckyX
Member
Not sure what's going on but when I attempt to watch the dashcam vids, There are plenty of files showing but when I hit the play button, they are like a millisecond long. I'm using a Mac and formatting as instructed. ???
NinjaVece
Member
Question for all. Since the V9 software requires the USB to be a FAT32 device, what is the largest storage anyone has proven to work with the Dashcam software? And has that USB been required to be reformatted as FAT32 prior to usage? The largest FAT32 device normally created is 32gig and I would like to go higher.
Please let me know your experiences!
Please let me know your experiences!
Knightshade
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You can format up to at least 2TB in FAT32- you just need a 3rd party utility (in windows anyway) to do it.
My music is also on a FAT32 drive since the Car Of the Future apparently can't read any file system from this century...it's a 256GB one and works fine.
My music is also on a FAT32 drive since the Car Of the Future apparently can't read any file system from this century...it's a 256GB one and works fine.
I got this one and no errors.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007YX9O9O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007YX9O9O/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
FYI, I got the SanDisk Wireless Connect one, the one that has a built in WiFi. Seems like you can't use the app if the USB stick isn't formatted as exfat. I haven't tried to see if there's an easy way for me to pull it from my Raspberry Pi, but so far that feature doesn't seem to work at least as described. Also, there's a button on the side to turn on and off WiFi, so I think if you just turn it on and leave it plugged in, it will have the wifi available until the battery in the USB stick is drained.
Here's a video I took this past weekend driving to Mt. Shasta:
When you save a video, it saves 10 one minute clips with the last clip being one minute or less. I thought it was a single 10 minute video but it's not. Also it's in the mp4 format. One other thing I noticed is the drive got corrupted when I pulled it out once, had to put it back into a windows machine and run the disk checker on it, and it fixed it again. I did split this 64 GB drive into two FAT32 drives (one for music, one for dashcam). Seems to work fine like that.
Here's a video I took this past weekend driving to Mt. Shasta:
When you save a video, it saves 10 one minute clips with the last clip being one minute or less. I thought it was a single 10 minute video but it's not. Also it's in the mp4 format. One other thing I noticed is the drive got corrupted when I pulled it out once, had to put it back into a windows machine and run the disk checker on it, and it fixed it again. I did split this 64 GB drive into two FAT32 drives (one for music, one for dashcam). Seems to work fine like that.
Are these drives still working properly for you? I tried one and have had corrupted files even when I disable the device on the display whenever unplugging the drive.
I keep getting my drive corrupted too. I think they need to do something at the software level to fix this.
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