Storage Capacity

 

I have a Garmin Nuvi 350. I store pictures, mp3's and custom POI's. Does anyone know how much space I have available to store all this. I have 33,000 POI's and 10 large megapixel photos. Am I getting close to filling it up. What is the total capacity or how do I find out? Thanks

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When you hook it to your computer do you see it?

If so right click on it, then properties, that will display size, how much space is used, etc... I am not positive this works with 3xx series...

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You may want to purchase an SD card to store your photos and mp3's. You can use any SD card, it doesn't have to be the Garmin card. They can be purchased for as little as $5.

For example, CircuitCity has a 2GB card on sale for $13 and a 4GB card on sale for $18. (I don't work for CC, it's just the first site I checked)

SD - The bigger the better

I purchased a 2GB SD and it's already stuffed with MP3 and photos. I've been kicking myself for not getting a 4GB or an 8GB. Maybe larger would be better still. No matter how big I still manage to stuff the storage to capacity.

SD card size.

palestar wrote:

I purchased a 2GB SD and it's already stuffed with MP3 and photos. I've been kicking myself for not getting a 4GB or an 8GB. Maybe larger would be better still. No matter how big I still manage to stuff the storage to capacity.

I have noticed that the larger the SD card the longer it takes to boot the GPSr. Or I should say the more data the longer the boot.

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8GB SD with more data and longer boot? Okay...

It stands to reason that the more ‘crap’ that is stored on the SD the longer the boot. The other thing to do is stick with a smaller SD card and continually switch out the MP3 files for some variety.

But then you’ll still need to store the MP3’s somewhere. Its kind of ok in the beginning because it’s a new toy and ya like playing with it and learning how to work with the files. But it gets old after a bit, so a larger sized SD and a wee bit longer load time may not be a bad trade off.

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If you break your MP3s up into folders, the unit will load more quickly.

SD size related to boot time?

does SD size and contents really affect GPS boot time? i.e. this unit searches for things like POIs, alarts stored in SD.
In that case, I would avoid put POI files in SD, making SD only stores MP3, photo folders/files. I would take out SD when boot and put it back in after map displayed.
Will that work?

I have a 350, it has 2gb

I have a 350, it has 2gb internal and will handle up to 4gb SD card.

Best practices I've found so far:
1) copy the entire 350 drive to pc folder C:\MyGPS\GPS350orig;
2) copy the entire 350 drive after map update to pc folder C:\MyGPS\GPS350update;
3) delete all laugages that you do not speak (keeping english, british and austrialian).

Now you have about 1.2gb available internal memory. Keep your splash screen image file on internal memory. Find a program to change your image files to lower pixel count, most of my 1.5gb pics are saved on my 350 at 2k.

I use microSD cards w/adapters for mp3's, bought from amazon (or was it buy.com) for $10 each and no shipping cost. The microSD cards allow me to swap them into my cell phone.

MM has a good idea using folders for albums, haven't tried that yet.

I keep both poi's and mp3's on SD card

abin wrote:

does SD size and contents really affect GPS boot time? i.e. this unit searches for things like POIs, alarts stored in SD.
In that case, I would avoid put POI files in SD, making SD only stores MP3, photo folders/files. I would take out SD when boot and put it back in after map displayed.
Will that work?

I keep both poi's and mp3's on SD card. POIs don't take up much space. I've run into a minor problem due to my setting alert radius to wide causing multiple alerts, the GPS went nuts, I had to remove the SD card to continue on.

When to GPS starts it reads the SD card looking for new POIs. It will want to transfer them (or not, your preference). Next time you start GPS it knows those files are there, start time is shorter.