SD card recommendations?

I have two 4 gb Micro SD cards for my Garmin 750 and they work great.

I bought mine from Amazon.com.

Mine are SanDisk. They are $9.43 each with an adapter and small case. Can't beat that price anywhere!!

Yes, the micro cards with adapter work well with nuvis. One advantage to using them (with unlocked maps like Garmin's Topo and other free maps) is that the micro card can be swapped back and forth to an eTrex or other GPS that can only use micro cards.

One thing to be careful about, especially for the larger SD cards, is to be very careful if buying on eBay. There are many reports of fake SD cards being sold there. Many of the fake cards come from Sellers in China or Hong Kong.

There is also a lot of talk on the web about the no name SD card also having a virus on them that can infect your computer. I would recommend sticking to a name brand like San Disk, Panasonic, etc. As far as micro it would work with the same speed as a larger SD card with the same read/ write speed.

I've never had any problems with SanDisk. Like the above post. There was a time viruses were pre-installed on some cards. I came across this on a USB stick once. All that preloaded software...

I bought a 16 GB SDHC house brand card from the MicroCenter - $29.99. No problems & it sure stores a hell of a lot of *.mp3's & POI's. Working for nearly a year - no problems.

Fred

I would trust pretty much any brand sold at newegg.com

Thanks for posting up this useful information

Other thread the same OP made under the same title.
It may also be a duplicate, as I have seen them before. Calling Miss POI:))

See below.

http://www.poi-factory.com/node/22491

he posts only once then gone for good.

this site needs strong rules like this one

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic124514.html <-- my favorite site by the way

I have bought several off of woot. They have never failed and usually good pricing. You just have to wait for when they come on sale.

TigerDirect

Just had a Sandisk card that would work 2GB for $1.

Not sure if they will have it starting Monday tho. Ithink it was a instore price.

I got a 2GB Kingston SD card from newegg for $7.25 shipped a few weeks ago...

the real killer for many places is shipping... usually $5-10 for shipping turns that great $2 item into $7-12

I've had great luck getting cards from Buy.com. I usually end up with Kingston cards. I end up buying mostly SD cards since they work in my cameras, also. My MP3 player has a Micro SD card but thtta's the only device I have that has one of those types. I always try and double up when I'm buying new cards and I end up buying new devices that use SD cards since I now have so many of them.

I've had good luck with both Sandisk SD cards and Lexar Micro SD with an SD Adapter. Good Luck

I agree. That's one of my pet peeves with internet shopping. Either charge the brick and mortar store price (including all the staff, occupancy and overhead costs) with no shipping, or charge a lesser internet price plus shipping. However I see most large retailers e.g. BestBuy, Futureshop etc. and even some local smaller retailers charging the same price as their retail stores and then adding shipping on top. Even with someone like Newegg I don't find many of their prices low enough compared with some of our local specialty tech retailers to offset the shipping cost.

To my mind charge brick and mortar prices or internet prices with shipping, but not brick and mortar prices plus shipping. And that's just for reputable organizations, some places charge low low prices but outrageous shipping costs.

May not apply so much on a $2 item but on items costing hundreds I think it does apply.

Heck, you guys on the mainland have it good when it comes to shipping costs. Try living in Hawaii. Talk about getting screwed.

Even when something is shipped USPS they charge us more just because we live in Hawaii!!! And forget about getting those "free shipping" offers.

I currently have a few custom poi's loadeded in my nuvi750. i like to buy a sd card and load my custom poi's to my card. can this be done.

I found a few deals recently on buy.com which I use for random stuff:

Single SanDisc 2GB microSD card, no adapter, $7.76 after shipping

http://tinyurl.com/pg6v7j

4GB SanDisc microSD with SD adapter $10.76 shipped

http://tinyurl.com/6cnxx3

2x Kingston 2GB MicroSD cards with single SD adapter $13.53 and free shipping

http://tinyurl.com/66cuoj

More can be found here:

http://tinyurl.com/otcy33

I used buy.com to get my newest laptop, a Compaq CQ60-211DX for $360 (2.16GHz Celeron 585 cpu, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HD, Intel 4500M video, 15.6" widescreen LCD, full keyboard with numpad to the right side)

I find it very, very hard to sympathize with some poor guy who lives in Hawaii. I'd like to try. Could live with an occasional loss of free shipping.
LOL

I think that is a great price for the SanDisk 4GB microSDHC Memory Card w/Adapter. I may have to order one for my Garmin Nuvi 500. Thanks for the URL.

the best brand is Kingston they have life time warranty. and one suggestion dont buy a 4G I had many problems with those memories.
and more with the micro Sd.
good luck

As far as I am concerned the far and away best place to get SD memory cards (and lots of other stuff too) is:

www.supermediastore.com

• The prices are the best I can find (and I am cheap, so I look everywhere)
• I have NEVER had an issue with them in terms of price/performance issues
• They ship quickly and often for free
• They have many different brands, so if you have a favorite, you can often get it there

Check them out!

nüMaps lifetime

Another +1 for Kingston

I couldn't help myself and I bought a 16 GB RiData Class 6 Lightning Series SDHC card from supermediastore.com.

This thing is amazing! It holds about a zillion cd's and is very fast. There is almost no lag time for the MP3 files to load and to date have had no fail to load issues.

The only problem is that I have spent way to much time ripping mp3 files in the futile attempt to fill this sucker!

I use Sandisk and Kingston. I have not had any problems with either brand.

Title says it all.

Lexar and Sandisk work very well (watch out for clones)

Another question,,,are there any better SD card readers then others? or they all about the same??

i only use sandisk and never had a prob.

Add me to that list.

Yes you can. I also have a 750 and loaded poi from this site. All I did was create a folder (My POI) under Documents in my computer and downloaded pois into it. Inserted the sd card into my computer. Then using POI loader copied them onto the card. (I created a folder on the card "My POI" first so there'd be a folder for them before you download.) Hope this helps. Actually, I didn't know how until I asked on this site. Was directied to Mama something (sorry) and she had it shown pretty good. I'm new to this site and haven't gotten the discussion thread thing too good. Oh - look for the new POI under EXTRAS.

^^^????

They are all about the same.

I have a micro sd card with adapter 4gb and it works just fine.

I use a PNY OPTIMA SDHC 8GB in my Garmin 680. No problems.

have had very good service at tiger direct

thanks..

Also what s the diff between a 4gig sd and a 4gig sdhc,can my 350 use a HC card?

I believe SD cards larger than 2GB are all called HC (high capacity) but I may be wrong.

you may be righ because i'm trying to find a 4gig for my 350 and all i can find is HC cards..

Newegg has good items. You can trust most of their brands they sell, especially their SD cards.

I have a SanDisk 4GB SDHC card in my 660 and it works perfectly.

try to avoid A-Data.. i had 2 fail already in a 2 month span...

That is because the maximum (reliable/stable) size for standard SD cards is 2GB due to technical limitations (there were some over 2GB but they were not reliable). The HC in SDHC means high capacity.

More info here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card#SDHC

thanks for the link,so if it recognizes SDHC memory cards i can use it no problem then.

I've tried a few different ones and the sandisk readers seem to hold up the best for me.

My wife and I were driving in the car and having our Nuvi 765 navigate us to a desitnation. She was driving and I was looking out the window, when all of the sudden we heard something hit the dash and fall through the defroster vent. My wife said "something just fell off the back of the GPS and went down one of the holes on top of the dash". I was like "what the heck could have fallen off the GPS?

When we got to our desitination, I unmounted it from the window and looked the unit, mounting arm and cradle over really good, but couldn't see anything missing. Then I happened to notice that the SD card was missing from its slot! The goofy thing popped out on its own, hit the dashboard and fell down the defroster vent. Luckily I only had some pictures and a few MP3s on it; nothing too important. So if I want it back I would have to take apart the dash, which isn't happening. So now I will have to go and pick up another one and hope that this one will stay in like its supposed to!

Not a bad idea.
BTW:
I have used Kingston, Sundisk and PNY all good.
If you look around you can find then cheap these days. Why buy a cheap no name product to put in a devise you paid hundreds of dollars for?

" One advantage to using them (with unlocked maps like Garmin's Topo and other free maps) is that the micro card can be swapped back and forth to an eTrex or other GPS that can only use micro cards."

CraigW
How do you unlock Topo?
What other free maps?

wow not good,can't see how that would happen,i'd be in trouble with my 320 then mapping is on the SD card loose that and the GPS is useless,better put a piece of tape across it.

They are less expensive and you don't need the performance of a full sized SD card.
Jen