SD Card questions

p4wel · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 4:49 pm Post subject: SD Card questions

Hi,

I'm about to purchase a new system comprising IPAQ 4150 with bluetooth TomTom or CoPilot and have a few questions about SD cards:

1. Is there an advantage to buying a faster SD card? I'm thinking of SanDisk Ultra II SD.

2. Is SanDisk a good choice or are there better brands?

3. What card size should I go for, I'm thinking 512MB or 1GB? I will be mostly driving around London and South-East but want to use IPAQ for other things.

Cheers,
Pawel

kartracer · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:49 pm Post subject:

TomTom does not get on with Sandisk cards as they are too slow for it. CoPilot is not so fussy, and I happily use it with a 1GB Sandisk SD card. If you get a 1GB card then you will be able to fit the whole of the CoPilot maps for Western Europe on it. I don't know how much space the TomTom maps require, but I believe it is a bit more space due to them using less compressed files.
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tOpCaT · Posted: Wed Oct 13, 2004 9:52 pm Post subject:

TomTom requires about 103 Meg for the entire UK map, so it will fit on a 128Meg card. I've got a 256 which has some room left, but if I buy something like memory map or anquet I might want to buy a bigger one...

p4wel · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 2:07 pm Post subject:

Yes, the large size makes sense, what about the brand? Does anyone have their favourites?

sland · Regular Visitor Joined: Mar 19, 2004 Posts: 144

Dane Elec XS Series available from Expansys are good and at a good price
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Mike

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