Which SD card to choose ?!?!?!?

cdelecole · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 05, 2005 Posts: 185

Hi there !

I'm planning to to buy an SD card to put more maps on it (Benelux, France, ...)

I have the choice between a 512 MB, or a 1GB card.
Between Kingston (Elite Pro) or SanDisk (Ultra 2) ...

Do you have any comments or suggestions to make about speed and quality of those memory cards ?

Thanks !

nich · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:56 pm Post subject:

I have just bought a kingston 512mb card. It works fine.

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

If you are going to put lots of maps on, the 512 may be too small.

I have the UK map (about 100Mb) and the Major Roads of Europe (82Mb) the postcode and speed camera PoIs - Total 233Mb

The France map is a lot bigger than the UK map - extra 133 Mb and Benelux will add more.....

There's a list of the map sizes on one of the forums - mytomtomgo, I think.

sgould · Frequent Visitor Joined: Oct 05, 2004 Posts: 1320

Here you are. A straight lift from the FAQ on www.mytomtomgo.com

United Kingdom: 105 Mb;
Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg): 60 Mb;
France: 235 Mb;
Italy: 190 Mb;
Germany: 230 Mb;
Austria: 45 Mb;
Switzerland: 25 Mb;
Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland): 115 Mb;
Spain: 120 Mb;
Major Roads of Europe: 85 Mb;

stix · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 9:47 am Post subject:

I use a 1GB Sandisk card..... no problems at all.

Stephen7372 · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 07, 2005 Posts: 29

Does it make any difference how fast the card is ?

http://www.davoom.com/products/index.php?boxaction=main&categoryId=12#2000

Podie · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject:

I found the faster cards to be of benefit when…

1) Planning long routes (eg Scotland to Devon, or throuogh France or Spain).
2) When reading / writing data via the PC (note that I use a USB2 card reader)

tomtomgone · Occasional Visitor Joined: Feb 10, 2005 Posts: 29

Frazzle has used both faster cards and slower cards and says he didnt notice a difference in the TTG, but yet it would be faster when plugged into the PC I suppose.

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