FAT32 or NTFS

stevest220 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 12:52 pm Post subject: FAT32 or NTFS

I will soon be buying a new ds card for my RAC SatNav 100 so that I have bigger memory and can download speedcam database and more poi's. The current sd card is FAT32 format, should I format me new card as FAT32, or will it operate better formated as NTFS?

Tks

Steve

tonys66 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:04 pm Post subject:

I would say leave it the same

kartracer · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject:

Leave it as it comes. If you do want to reformat it then use Panasonic SDFormatter, a free download.
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stevest220 · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:20 pm Post subject: tks

tks for the info

Steve

tanda · Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 2:47 pm Post subject:

If you are going to get a new, bigger SD card, get a "FAST READ", or whatever its called. When I bought my bigger card, I bought a normal one, and when the speed camera icons are displayed, and the alerts are on, the sat nav runs slow, it says "TAKE THE NEXT TURNING ON THE RIGHT", JUST AS i HAVE GONE PAST THE TURNING, so I have to turn the icons off and just have the audible alerts on. When I get round to it, I will copy my SD card again onto a faster card.
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aj2052 · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:46 am Post subject:

I always thought memory cards had to be formatted at fat16, I have just checked the properties of my sd and the memory card just shows Fat wereas a second hdd i have shows Fat32 correctly, I have not seen any different information and I am quite happy to be corrected if neccesary

kartracer · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:

It doesn't matter whether you use FAT16 or FAT32 on an SD card. What may matter, depending upon how you use the card, is the cluster size. A few years ago when using TomTom 3 on an iPaq I found that larger cluster sizes dramatically improved the performance of the application. To-day, with more, larger and faster SD cards, I either format a card in the device in which it will be used, or use SDFormatter which formats it according to agreed SD card standards.
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philpugh · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:50 pm Post subject:

aj2052 · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

After doing quick search on internet, It would appear that some cards may not accept Fat32 some will. and from a personal experience I upgraded from a standard 2gb to a unknown x133 2gb card on my Mio168 and did find it was better and slightly quicker specifically it stopped Sharon Stuttering, perhaps reducing POIs may have helped also who knows, Probably case of "you pays your money then see"

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stevest220 · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject: Once again tks

Once again

Tks for all you help

I think I will get a 2gb card with a speed of x133. I will carefully choose my poi's that are shown on the map/alerts.

I will use the spare space to download some mp3's as the unit is capab;e of playing them.

Steve

kartracer · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 12:40 am Post subject:

MaxRider · Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject:

I bought a sandisk extreme 3 card from my memory and it loads visibly quicker than the tom tom stock card.

stevest220 · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 3:21 pm Post subject: sd card

The Sandisk is one of the cards I have looked at, think that's what I'll buy when I find a good price - must check 'pricerunner'.

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