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by simbolit 902 days ago
* There is microSD from 1999, max capacity is 2GB.

* Then there is the 2006 update microSDHC, max capacity was 32GB.

* And since 2009 we use microSDXC, max capacity is 2TB.

* In 2019, the next update came out, microSDUC, max capacity is 128TB. As far as I know there are no actual products yet.

You need a reader of the same type of your card or higher. Otherwise, it might not work at all, or you can only read the first x gb of your larger card.

I am not knowledgeable, but I know how to use Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_card#microSD

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The thing is that for instance my Moto-G https://www.motorola.com/us/smartphones-moto-g-power-5g/p?sk... says it's supports up to 1TB, which is... none of those standards. So is this a situation where they're using 1TB because that's what currently exists as-of time of that website being written or is this a situation where no one actually bothers to implement the whole standard?

That's why I was asking.

When the Nokia N900 was the new thing, it was specced to support 16 GB MicroSD cards, which is, again, none of the standards. They did it because, at that time, there were no actual 32 GB cards on the market, so they could not test the support. De-facto, 32 GB cards worked.
I really don't know, but I _suspect_ it will accept 2TB cards.

I had the same with a _much_ older device, which accepted 2gb, even tho it said otherwise.