Will a 250gb USB thumb drive work with my force?

I'm curious to know if there's a capacity limit on USB thumb drives? I want to get a 250gb thumb drive to get me started.

I don't really see why not.

The Force's OS is Linux-based, and Linux will cheerfully handle much larger capacities on a drive. It comes down to formatting it properly.

Thanks Koekepan i couldn't find any particular information relating to capacity and i wondered if anyone had already tried it out with one they had themselves.

Synaptic wrote:I'm curious to know if there's a capacity limit on USB thumb drives? I want to get a 250gb thumb drive to get me started.

Yes. Linux supports terabytes and terabytes of storage -you’re fine. Just format in EXFAT.

Nice, thanks enochlight i can buy one in confidence now.

Synaptic wrote:Nice, thanks enochlight i can buy one in confidence now.

No problem. Just make sure you software “eject” your thumb drive from Force (or your computer) before removing it, or you’ll eventually corrupt the drive and lose samples and other data.

Synaptic wrote:Nice, thanks enochlight i can buy one in confidence now.

You could also install a regular SATA drive into the Force-if you get a SSD, that's much faster than a thumb drive. But of course more expensive.

For file transfer you just connect the Force to your computer via the included USB cable and switch it to "computer mode".

MPCbruh wrote:

Synaptic wrote:You could also install a regular SATA drive into the Force-if you get a SSD, that's much faster than a thumb drive. But of course more expensive..

Everyone assumes this to be the case so I ran some tests and actually found the load and saving times for any form of solid state drive to be fairly similar, in fact I got the best results with a 512GB SD card. Here's my article:

https://www.mpc-tutor.com/standalone-mpc-disk-options/

Worth noting that the SATA port is actually just a SATA cable connected to the internal USB bus.

Thanks for the tips ill bare them in mind when i buy my next storage device.

MPC-Tutor wrote:https://www.mpc-tutor.com/standalone-mpc-disk-options/

Worth noting that the SATA port is actually just a SATA cable connected to the internal USB bus.

Interesting, thanks for pointing this out!