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Soul Surfer
Cancervivor, tech geek & musician
I've got a 2021 (late year) and all the USB-C ports are data enabled. I've found it to be sort of hit n' miss when I've tried using multiple thumb drives and/or partitioned SSD's. Please keep us informed. Many inquiring minds here 
Formatting on a Mac has not changed in a long time, so you should be good to go. It's actually pretty simple and straightforward using Disc Utility on your computer. I actually have my 1TB T7 partitioned into two separate drives: one for Music (about 700GB) and one for TeslaCam (the rest)
Let us know if you still need help/guidance.
BTW: I have almost 13,000 tracks, many being FLAC and I am nowhere near to filling the 700GB, so you may just want to opt for the 1TB. YMMV
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
By default it only records in a 1 hour loop, deleting older footage as it goes- this takes up roughly 7.4 GB (4 cameras at roughly 1.8GB each for an hour of footage)
Only for sentry clips or manually saved footage does it keep anything else... each of those recordings is roughly 1.2 GB (4 cameras at 300MB each for 10 minutes of footage)
So you could hold roughly 100 sentry or saved clips in addition to the 1 hour recent loop on a 128GB stick.
Note it WILL delete the oldest sentry clips when it needs space and you are below 5% free space. It will NOT delete saved clips though so you can potentially totally fill the drive that way.
CharleyBC
Active Member
It does? Didn't five years ago. Do you know what model they use? The one we've been using for most of those five years seems to have given up finally, so I'm in the market...
stopcrazypp
Well-Known Member
This is the branded one new Teslas now come with:
Which appears to be a rebrand of this Samsung Drive:
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
And that's also the exact drive I bought (before Tesla began using em- I'm a trendsetter!) for my 2018 Model 3.
Thanks for all this. Conservatively, it sounds like an SSD is the safest. ...still a bit confused about the capacity -- does it or does it not save more video?
Knightshade
Well-Known Member
This is explained 4 posts above your question-
By default it only records in a 1 hour loop, deleting older footage as it goes- this takes up roughly 7.4 GB (4 cameras at roughly 1.8GB each for an hour of footage)
Only for sentry clips or manually saved footage does it keep anything else... each of those recordings is roughly 1.2 GB (4 cameras at 300MB each for 10 minutes of footage-- EDIT for sentry specifically it might grab the interior cam too, that'd make these 1.5GB each if so)
So you could hold roughly 80-100 sentry or saved clips in addition to the 1 hour recent loop on a 128GB stick.
Note it WILL delete the oldest sentry clips when it needs space and you are below 5% free space. It will NOT delete saved clips though so you can potentially totally fill the drive that way.
128GB is PLENTY unless you plan to record a ton of things manually and never clear the drive out.
By default it only records in a 1 hour loop, deleting older footage as it goes- this takes up roughly 7.4 GB (4 cameras at roughly 1.8GB each for an hour of footage)
Only for sentry clips or manually saved footage does it keep anything else... each of those recordings is roughly 1.2 GB (4 cameras at 300MB each for 10 minutes of footage-- EDIT for sentry specifically it might grab the interior cam too, that'd make these 1.5GB each if so)
So you could hold roughly 80-100 sentry or saved clips in addition to the 1 hour recent loop on a 128GB stick.
Note it WILL delete the oldest sentry clips when it needs space and you are below 5% free space. It will NOT delete saved clips though so you can potentially totally fill the drive that way.
128GB is PLENTY unless you plan to record a ton of things manually and never clear the drive out.
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