Hello, I got a question about how much SD card capacity does the Librem 5 will support? Because since nowadays storage is pretty damn cheap I’d like to throw in a ginormous 512GB SD card in my Librem 5 that way I can have everything I would like to have on my computers in my pocket and not be bothered by storage management.
BTW another question but not very important (as I think that the answer will be “Yes you can”), will I be able to compress and decompress 7z/LZMA2 archives? Because for the matter of saving space that’s what I’m used to use
I also purchased specifically to be able to actually have a computer in my pocket and agree large storage capacity would be awesome. Hopefully we get some updates after the Chinese New Year business.
In general it works like this: The officially supported maximum size is typically what was available when the specs for the device (the reader) were written. But all that means is that nobody tested a bigger one. If the protocol stays the same, a bigger one should still work.
For example, my Galxy S3 officially supports 64GB, but has no problem with my 128GB card.
So, no matter what the official spec will say, just try a bigger one
(And of course, all standard compression stuff will work on the Librem 5. Just not sure if there will be good UI from the start. Also keep in mind that 7z uses a LOT of CPU to get the good compression rates it gets…)
