Micro SD Card Type for Stadium

[cacibi]

Not being versed on Micro SD cards (types, formats, what the numbers on the front mean, if they are made by Keebler elves...etc), I have this to work with from the manual:
 

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Helix Stadium can utilize a microSD card with a minimum capacity of 32 GB, HC type, and U1 speed class (or higher).

 

I have two Micro SD cards at hand, photos attached, which are both XC but my pal...Google...says that XC cards should be backward compatible with HC.

 

I am assuming that, as long as I am able to successfully format a card in Maintenance Mode....it is good to go and that the worst that happens if you were to insert an incompatible card is a polite message?

 

 

[silverhead]

Be aware that the Stadium device ships with a microSD card already installed. Is that not working?

 

Is this a rhetorical question or are you actually having a problem with your own cards? Have you been able to format them using Stadium? If so, have you tried using them? 

[cacibi]

On 1/18/2026 at 10:08 AM, silverhead said:

Be aware that the Stadium device ships with a microSD card already installed. Is that not working?

 

Is this a rhetorical question or are you actually having a problem with your own cards? Have you been able to format them using Stadium? If so, have you tried using them? 

I am aware that it ships with a card but, if you are going to start utilizing the Showcase feature to import multiple tracks per song for a good number of songs, 32GB is not going to last very long. 
 

Then you start adding in loops, preset clips, samples or whatever else it will hold in future firmware.

[cacibi]

Also, my original unit is on the way back to L6 after going into an unrecoverable state while trying to import Showcase files via the Stadium App. 
 

I guess you would say I have an abundance of caution about trying this again on a non-OEM card.

 

So, non-rhetorical.