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I had no success with experimenting on my SanDisk Ultra 64GB microSDXC UHS-I (SDSQUNC-064G-GN6MA).

I tried formatting entire one to Fat, Fat32 using 3rd party software, making small Fat/Fat32 partition on PI3.

How can I make it work? What brands work with 64GB AND 128GB cards? and What partition strategies to use?

I need A LOT of disk space. What other strategies could I use?

I got PI 2, but also getting PI 3.

Solution. As author of accepted solution mentioned, the NOOBS will not run in my situation so I've installed a Rasbian directly, which solved my problem.

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At the risk of being accused of being anti NOOBS, which is poorly documented, it is supposed to be an easy installation method. It assumes a normal SD Card; I don't know what it really expects and has probably not been tested with 64GB.

I suggest you install Raspbian - this doesn't need the card to be formatted, and creates an image. I have not tried a 64GB, but see no reason why it wouldn't work.

To address the other part of your question, I use 16GB cards. When I need extra space I use an external 1TB HD, which I have formatted as ext4. You could use any other form of storage, a solid state drive or USB stick. You won't get spectacular speed, because all Pi I/O goes through the same controller.

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Despite my other comments I think you can make it work. Checking on the ELinux RPi-SDCard page it explicitly refers to the exact device mentioned and someone says "tested on Raspberry Pi 2" in December 2015. Further more I refer you to this related question and the accepted answer: Raspberry Pi 2 - Are 64GB UHS-I Class 1 SDXC cards supported?

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