A flash drive is a small and useful electronic device. It can be used as a data storage device. It also serves other purposes, such as being a bootable Windows installer. As a data storage device, flash drives have storage limitations. The capacity of flash drives varies. If you have a flash drive with a small capacity, then the storage space is limited.
If the capacity is full, you may need to delete existing files first to save new files. In addition to deleting data, you can buy another flash drive with a larger capacity to support your data storage needs. The capacity of a flash drive can be increased up to twice as much. This is possible due to the compressing block and remapping block methods. However, doubling this capacity has certain requirements. Only flash drives or other external storage with a real capacity of 8 GB can be upgraded.
How to increase Flashdisk capacity
- Prepare and install the SData Tools application.
- Connect the flash drive to your PC and open the SData Tools application.
- Select the drive to be increased in capacity (for example, Drive F) in the Choose your data to compress section.
- Give the drive a name in the Choose a next name for data section.
- Select the resulting capacity increase in the Compress to section.
- Click E-Compress NOW and wait for the process to finish.
Advantages
By increasing the capacity of a flash drive, you can use more space to store data. With more space, you can store more data.
Disadvantages
The disadvantage of increasing memory capacity is that the format system used is FAT32. This will cause single large files over 4 GB to be unable to be saved.
Flash drives may sometimes experience errors during data transfer. This is because the capacity increase is limited to adding partitions. However, some succeed without any problems. This is likely to depend on the quality of the flash drive memory. The capacity of a flash drive can be increased due to the compressing block and remapping block methods. However, this is just an addition of partitions. Even so, the resulting capacity can still be used depending on the quality of the flash drive memory
