8GB SDHC card in Garmin 780

 

One of the major electronics retailers is running a special this week on an 8GB SanDisk Ultra II SDHC card. SDHC is a "Secure Digital High Capacity" card, and fits in any "traditional" SD card slot. The packaging for this product warns that SDHC cards will only work in products that support them.

To that end, I tested the card in my old HP ipaq PDA and it did not work properly, nor did a USB card reader that I had used for many years.

The Garmin nuvi 780 however, had no trouble. Simply connect a USB cable to the 780 and your SDHC will show-up as an additional drive on Windows explorer.

I used my to store mp3s and use my 780 as a media player.

I noticed that there was some confusion on this elsewhere on the Web and wanted to share my experiences to hopefully push back this confusion.

Transcend and 765T

I bought a Transcend 8GB SDHC Class 6 card for my 765T and use it for mp3's as well.

Great on a trip...I have several playlists created in winamp for music, comedy, old time radio shows, archived CoastToCoastAM radio programs, podcasts and audiobooks.

When I want music, I just choose a playlist that includes every song on the SD card, and use the shuffle mode on the 765T's player...since I don't know what the next track will be, and the 8GB capacity gives me tons of tracks, in effect I have the poor man's satellite radio...but I am the DJ! cool

Last week, I created a playlist that is about 80% music, and 20% comedy...when I open it in the nuvi player, and choose shuffle, I generally get several tunes in a row, with the occasional short comedy break. mrgreen

And all the while Jill can gently interrupt when needed to keep me on track. wink

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— (Garmin nuvi 765T) — "people who say money can't buy happiness, don't know where to shop"

Good to know that

Thanks for the info. I was thinking to buy 4GB SDHC card, but wondering if that could be read by NUVI. 4GB is enough for driving from DC to CA, but why not to get 8GB if the price is good...