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About SD Memory Card Formatter
SD Memory Card Formatter formats SD, SDHC, SDXC and SDUC cards in line with the SD File System Specification written by the SD Association, the industry group behind the SD standards. Formatting to the specification can give better compatibility than a general-purpose operating system format.
It is available for Windows (version 5.0.4) and Mac (version 5.0.3), and there is also a Linux build for x86-64 and arm64.
Strengths
- Formats cards to the official SD File System Specification
- Supports SD, SDHC, SDXC and SDUC cards
- Builds for Windows, Mac and Linux
Limitations
- Only handles SD-family memory cards
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree download from the SD Association.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- SD Association
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Reformatting SD cards for cameras and other devices the standard way
- Categories
- Disk tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Disk Utility
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Disk Utility is built into macOS and manages volumes and disk images on any drive, though it is not described as formatting to the SD specification.
GParted
The partition editor for Linux, usually run from its own live USB so it can resize the disk it is not booted from.
GParted is a GPL-2.0 Linux partition editor that handles many filesystems on any disk, with more complexity and no stated SD specification formatting.
ImageUSB
A free PassMark utility that writes an image to many USB flash drives at the same time.
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