Initial USB Drive for Sentry and Dashcam

[PianoAl]

I'm about to pick up our M3. Until I buy a more appropriate drive, I'd like to plug this in for sentry and dashcam recordings:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F9V72H4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

It's 256 G.

Will that work?

I also have one of these (in 32 G)

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G3X98NV/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I've formatted both in DOS (FAT32) and created a single folder called TeslaCam.

Am I good to go?

Thanks.

 

[turns2stone]

Should be good. I did mine for the first time today, using the steps you're describing. Worked as expected.

 

[Knightshade]

Both will work- but 32GB is too small for any long term use... the dashcam system writes 7.2GB an hour- meaning it'll eat through a full write cycle on a 32GB drive in less than 4.5 hours... so you're eating 2 cycles per day even if you only are using it for say an hour of driving and 8 hours parked at work.

That's gonna kill a cheap no-name drive in not much more than a year.

More like 6 months if you run it 24/7.

(and less if you save any significant amount of video for long)

The 256GB drive on the other hand, even if it was cheap quality stuff, would be good roughly 8 times longer