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Request to change "unusually large for an SD card or USB stick" threshold

Open ras07 opened this issue 6 years ago • 6 comments

Ver. 1.4.9 warns that the device is "unusually large for an SD card or USB stick" if the device is 64 GB or larger. However 64 GB cards are increasingly common, and can currently be had on Amazon (from reliable vendors) for under $10. (It hardly even makes sense to buy a smaller card anymore, since a 32 GB card is only about $2 less.) So the "false positive" rate for this warning (when it warns you even though you have selected the intended device) is getting high.

As 64GB+ cards are rapidly becoming the norm, people will get used to ignoring this warning. This will have the inevitable result that some users will accidentally flash unintended devices, because they are used to clicking Continue when they see this warning. (I, for one, can totally see myself doing this.)

128GB cards aren't far behind at under $25 and dropping, so I would therefore propose increasing the "unusually large" threshold to 256 GB or perhaps even higher.

ras07 avatar Feb 21 '19 03:02 ras07