Player Storage
3 min
unlike many consumer electronics products, most brightsign players have minimal built in storage and typically require a separate storage device such as a microsd card usb drives are also supported including thumb drives, external hard drives, and external ssds (solid state drives) many brightsign players also support internal ssds in the common m 2 form factor (more ssd info here docid\ aedgj5b7oao861a on62 ) most users prefer using microsd cards as these are affordable, readily available, and insert neatly (no protruding cables / parts to contend with) into the player’s microsd card slot due to the continuous usage many players experience, brightsign qualified microsd cards are recommended (more info here docid 50ubavvfcicwb99nqqx8w ) storage device priority if multiple storage devices are attached, the player will use the first storage device it finds based on the following order usb connected storage microsd card m 2 / ssd flash microsd card formatting microsd cards should be formatted as exfat (recommended) or fat32 this can be done using the diskutility app on a mac or file explorer on windows (right click on the drive representing the card and click “format…”) the exfat format is preferred as it avoids the 4gb filesize limit of the fat32 filesystem cards 2gb or smaller will be fat12 (aka “fat”) and subject to its 2gb file size limit for more details on how to properly format a microsd card, see format a microsd card docid\ bi1clywdiepziovrlos0j