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Hi Guys
We are starting to see SD card fails starting to be more common as they get older. We have tried previously to put other brands of SD card into the processors but obviously this does not work.
Does anybody know what is required to use another SD card other than one provided by Samsung?
Thanks
Jay

The issue is gonna be Samsung's proprietary formatting. We've never had any luck putting another brand SD card in an OS7000 switch.

No problem using. Transcend card as long as it's 2gb. Never seen this proprietary format being an issue

I've been successful cloning the SD card. I use Macrium Reflect and have 2 SD card drives. I put an original Samsung drive in one and clone to a new SD card in the second. The size of the drive doesn't seem to matter much; the last ones I did were SanDisk MicroSD 32GB (with the SD Adapter). Once you clone it'll be the same size as the original. I've used these already in 2 systems where the original SD card failed.

I clone it with the software still on it and then replace the software later with whatever version I require. Use whatever SD card is the least expensive as you'll lose the extra space after the clone.