XDAIIi & Best SD Card

[lydiachris]

Hi.

I have many questions which have been skimmed across on quite a few other topics in this forum, I wish to ask more in depth questions for all you IT Brainiacs which I lookup to greatly 8)

I own a XDAIIi and a 512MB Kingston SD Card.

Using 'Storage Tools' by softwinter...
http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html

The SD Card is formatted:

FAT 16 (Backup FAT)
Cluster Size (The Largest Size)

I also use TomTom Navigator 3.07 with GPS 3.07.
I experience frequent lockups whilst driving.

What I am asking you guys is what is THE BEST AND ULTIMATE SD CARD to use in my XDAIIi with TomTom.
I know about all the Sandisk Ultra II/Extreme III but pocketgpsworld.com...

http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/storage-card-compatibility.php

Do not advise using Sandisk cards due to their poor performance.

Do any of you guys recommened how to tweak my SD card but increasing/decreasing the cluster size or formatting the card with FAT32 !? Or are there any REG Hacks that people know of how to increase the stability of the XDAIIi using the SD Card slot.

Also are there any solid specs of HOW fast the XDAIIi SD Slot can Read/Write to SD Cards?!

Sorry to ask such harsh, to-the-point questions but I have learnt so much from your forum :D

Thanks in advance,
lydiachris

[xda]

Out of numerous SD Cards I have tried the one I found to be the best was a Panasonic that I use. Its fast enough to run the Wave files from for the speed related Pocketgpsworld camera database.
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Graham.
TT Go720, App:9.510(1234792.1) OS:842337
GPS: V1.20, Boot: 5.5279, Home: V2.9.5.3093
Map: Europe V910.4892
Map: Europe_Truck V870.3421, Kingston 8GB SD
Nokia 925 Windows 8

[lydiachris]

Yes thankyou. Although my current Kingston Elite Pro SD is actually made by panasonic!!!

Any more help with formatting the card to the correct FAT and Cluster Size??

Cheers

[xda]

As regards formating I use the Panasonic SDFormater V1.1 which I think is available from the Panasonic site, and format at it's default setting. As to fragmenting it I use a commercial program called Diskeeper Enterprise Server which gives the following for the SD Card. It looks like it is set to a cluster size of 16 KB.

Volume (F)
Volume size = 243 MB
Cluster size = 16 KB
Used space = 153 MB
Free space = 92,080 KB
Percent free space = 36 %
Defragmentation method = Max Disk Performance

Fragmentation percentage
Volume fragmentation = 0 %
Data fragmentation = 0 %

File fragmentation
Total files = 104
Average file size = 1,504 KB
Total fragmented files = 0
Total excess fragments = 0
Average fragments per file = 1.00
Files with performance loss = 0
Paging file fragmentation
Paging/Swap file size = 0 bytes
Total fragments = 0

Directory fragmentation
Total directories = 4
Fragmented directories = 0
Excess directory fragments = 0

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Graham.
TT Go720, App:9.510(1234792.1) OS:842337
GPS: V1.20, Boot: 5.5279, Home: V2.9.5.3093
Map: Europe V910.4892
Map: Europe_Truck V870.3421, Kingston 8GB SD
Nokia 925 Windows 8

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