4gb SD cards

harley-noj · Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 8:48 pm Post subject: 4gb SD cards

HI All
If anyone is interested Amazon have 4gb SD cards in stock price £7.10 not HDHC but real SD . Don't know how good they are but I've just ordered one for my TT Rider. IF its OK it will be nice not to have to use map zones (I hope!!!) Noj

nibor · Lifetime Member Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Posts: 66

Try http://www.7dayshop.com

Antoeknee · Lifetime Member Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Posts: 267

Play is always worth a look

For example Sandisk 4GB SDHC £5

http://www.play.com/Electronics/Electronics/-/3184/2451/-/4949648/SanDisk-4GB-SD-SDHC-Memory-Card/Product.html?ob=4&cpage=1

mikealder · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:49 am Post subject:

The Rider can't use SDHC type cards, but £7:10 for a 4GB SD only syle card is cheap as they were/ are getting difficult to locate - Mike

harley-noj · Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:51 pm Post subject:

Hi All just an update. The 4gb card has come and its an SD card. All content of my 2gb card copied across, map then deleted and full Western Europe downloaded. Normal copying of favourites file etc..
All seems well and the Rider does read it and operate correctly, just needs a road test as well now, but all looks OK.
As Mike said its getting hard to find 4gb SD cards but these seem ok.
Noj

nwatson · Occasional Visitor Joined: Sep 10, 2006 Posts: 13

sorry I cannot find them on amazon, any chance of a link to the item?

thanks

Oldboy · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:02 pm Post subject:

Andy_P · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:18 pm Post subject:

nibor and Antoeknee, I think you missed the point.....

There are many older TomTom models that cannot reliably use SDHC cards, hence the point of this topic.

Genuine SD cards over 2GB are very hard to find (Transcend and TopRam being two makers that USED to do them).
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harley-noj · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:41 pm Post subject:

When I got mine they were £7.10 there now £8.69.
Do you think anyone from Amazon reads these posts and put the price up?
Or is it paranoia??

M8TJT · Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:10 pm Post subject:

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harley-noj · Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 5:50 pm Post subject:

Just an update if any one is interested. The card works fine and not noticed any issues. I now found that if you want one of these cards you can get them from IvoryEgg.com at £4.39 so if you like me use older TomTom's that can only take SD and not SDHC its a good price.

philce · Occasional Visitor Joined: Mar 02, 2005 Posts: 29

layingback · Regular Visitor Joined: Feb 12, 2009 Posts: 124

Many, many thanks to the OP for posting this.

I bought 1 (of the Amazon Platinum ones) and besides giving me an SD card large enough for the map/software AND the music files etc, it it has TRANSFORMED my 720!

Let me explain: mine is a 720 Refurb from a couple of years ago. It has always taken a while to load, much longer to boot and sometimes failed to boot at all. And a reset will most times need a reset before it actually boots to a running rather than frozen screen. It has always been like that, and was probably the reason it was a refurb. Only recently has it got frequent enough to differentiate it from TT's usual s/w issues, so that I noticed a pattern to this behaviour - when the unit was warm either from v. recent use or one of those rare hot days in UK. So I suspected RAM memory read errors.

Copied everything from memory to new SD (using Linux) and the 720 is sooooo much faster both turning on and booting. And it always boots to a running system. So anyone else with similar symptoms might want to give this a try - of course YMMV.

(I may even get back to sorting out the road numbers on Loquendo now I can reboot the thing - I think I've sussed the cause of the "semi-colon" on W.Europe map ;-)
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MaFt · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 4:21 pm Post subject:

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