Best size, best price for Micro SD for a 60CSX?

[canuck travellers]

Looking at buying a Micro SD for my 60CSX, Buy.com looks like good prices, I want to load at least part of V8 Navigator & US TOPO, anyone do that & if so what size did you chose?

 

I am thinking probably one 1Gig as it will load eastern US & maybe leave some storage for the US TOPO or maybe should think about 2Gig.

 

Also has anyone put a protector like a peel on/off plastic on the display, I would think that it may get scratched eventually, I see another thread on a case at Amazon with see-thru plastic, the only thing is I had a cell phone with one of these & the plastic scratched the display.

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

Thanks....Ernie

[kb1exp]

I have basically the same question.

 

I just purchased a 60csx and want to purchase software for it. I want to use the reciever for the road, on the trail and with my kayak. I was thinking of purchasing a 2 Gig microSD card that will fit all of the software listed below on the unit. But I too, don't know whether it's possible.

 

US Inland Lakes

US TOPO East

US TOPO 24K national parks east

Blue Chart America

US Recreational Lakes

 

I'm pretty sure that City Navigator NT v.8 is about 900 mgs. If you have a 2 gig microSD card, which I also understand will work inthe 60csx, you have about 1.1 gigs of space left for other programs. However, I've also heard that there may be a question about how much space you can use.

 

Hopefully, we will get some good answers to our questions.

[+AdmSteck]

Something to keep in mind. From the Garmin Website:

Q. What is the largest size microSD card that I can use in my X-series GPS unit?

A. At this time, 1 GB cards are the largest microSD cards that can be used for X-series products.

http://www.garmin.com/products/faq.jsp?product=010-00422-00

[canuck travellers]

I have basically the same question.

 

I just purchased a 60csx and want to purchase software for it. I want to use the reciever for the road, on the trail and with my kayak. I was thinking of purchasing a 2 Gig microSD card that will fit all of the software listed below on the unit. But I too, don't know whether it's possible.

 

US Inland Lakes

US TOPO East

US TOPO 24K national parks east

Blue Chart America

US Recreational Lakes

 

I'm pretty sure that City Navigator NT v.8 is about 900 mgs. If you have a 2 gig microSD card, which I also understand will work inthe 60csx, you have about 1.1 gigs of space left for other programs. However, I've also heard that there may be a question about how much space you can use.

 

Hopefully, we will get some good answers to our questions.

 

Hi kb1exp

I did get the Navigator v8 & US TOPO with the unit , I only loaded Florida in from the Navigator as I already have a Garmin 2620 Auto GPS, the great thing about Navigator is you can load as much or little as you want depending on the capacity of your card and where you want to go, most of Florida was 56Meg and I think the TOPO is not very storage intensive, I also want to get and load the Canada TOPO when I go back up north.

I think a lot of the 2610 users just use a 1 Gig card to load 1/2 US or use 2Gig to load all North America.

Hope we get lots of ideas on the best options.

....Ernie

[canuck travellers]

Something to keep in mind. From the Garmin Website:

Q. What is the largest size microSD card that I can use in my X-series GPS unit?

A. At this time, 1 GB cards are the largest microSD cards that can be used for X-series products.

http://www.garmin.com/products/faq.jsp?product=010-00422-00

 

Thanks for the reply, I also see that this Canadian site has this added in, so now I begin to wonder what is right, maybe best idea is a 2-1 Gig cards but I hate to have to swap them.

Canadian site with this text in the 60CSX info they are selling.

http://www.gpscentral.ca/products/garmin/60csx.htm

 

"microSD card slot allows for storage of optional MapSource detail (64 MB microSD included) [NB (From Garmin Tech Support): Any size, any brand of microSD card can be used.]"

[Barrikady]

Looking at buying a Micro SD for my 60CSX, Buy.com looks like good prices, I want to load at least part of V8 Navigator & US TOPO, anyone do that & if so what size did you chose?

 

I am thinking probably one 1Gig as it will load eastern US & maybe leave some storage for the US TOPO or maybe should think about 2Gig.

 

Also has anyone put a protector like a peel on/off plastic on the display, I would think that it may get scratched eventually, I see another thread on a case at Amazon with see-thru plastic, the only thing is I had a cell phone with one of these & the plastic scratched the display.

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

Thanks....Ernie

 

I have a 60Cx. I purchased a 1gb Micro SD for the device and I loaded CN8, Topo and 24K Nat Parks Topo. It all works well, but be advised, the maps load slower with the 1 GB Micro SD card pretty much filled up.

 

I also have a clear plastic protector on the display. I bought "screen guards," by Micro writeguards. Part # TSC930CQ (google it). A pack of 12 guards was about $8 at Fry's. The guards are larger than the 60Cx display, and you have to cut the guard to size. The guards are made for iPaq PDA's

Edited November 24, 2006 by Barrikady

[canuck travellers]

Thanks Barrikady, for the info on the screen protector, appreciate that, exactly the info I wanted.....Ernie

 

Looking at buying a Micro SD for my 60CSX, Buy.com looks like good prices, I want to load at least part of V8 Navigator & US TOPO, anyone do that & if so what size did you chose?

 

I am thinking probably one 1Gig as it will load eastern US & maybe leave some storage for the US TOPO or maybe should think about 2Gig.

 

Also has anyone put a protector like a peel on/off plastic on the display, I would think that it may get scratched eventually, I see another thread on a case at Amazon with see-thru plastic, the only thing is I had a cell phone with one of these & the plastic scratched the display.

 

Any help will be appreciated.

 

Thanks....Ernie

 

I have a 60Cx. I purchased a 1gb Micro SD for the device and I loaded CN8, Topo and 24K Nat Parks Topo. It all works well, but be advised, the maps load slower with the 1 GB Micro SD card pretty much filled up.

 

I also have a clear plastic protector on the display. I bought "screen guards," by Micro writeguards. Part # TSC930CQ (google it). A pack of 12 guards was about $8 at Fry's. The guards are larger than the 60Cx display, and you have to cut the guard to size. The guards are made for iPaq PDA's

[+Red90]

OK...

 

2 GB cards work fine.

 

Do NOT buy the store bought screen protectors. They stink. Get an "Invisible Shield", http://www.shieldzone.com/

 

If you have not bought City Navigator, get City Navigator NT as the map file sizes are smaller.

[+DocDiTTo]

Looking at buying a Micro SD for my 60CSX, Buy.com looks like good prices, I want to load at least part of V8 Navigator & US TOPO, anyone do that & if so what size did you chose?

 

I bought this 1 GB Kingston card and City Navigator North America 8 NT. I found the 1 GB card to be overkill for my needs, as it would hold the whole USA with room for some TOPO maps and POIs left over. I didn't need the whole US on one card, because I rarely leave Pennsylvania, let alone the eastern half of the US. I put the 1 GB card into my PDA and now have a 512 MB card in my 60CSx. I still have street maps loaded from Maine down to North Carolina and Kentucky, and the topo maps for most of that area as well, with room for POIs left over.

 

The key to this is making sure you get the NT version of City Navigator, as the maps contain the same data as the non-NT version but are compressed better, and therefore require less storage space.

 

A 1 GB card should be plenty if you're running CityNav 8 NT with Topo maps. My 1 GB card was $30 when I bought it, looks like it's $33 now. A 512 MB card is going for $15 at the site I linked above, and is probably more than enough unless you do frequent travel across many states. You can always take 5 or 10 minutes to reload the card if you're going to travel, it's not a big deal to do that.

[+rstickle]

Again, not to be mean, doing a search will get you more answers than you can use.

 

The current real limit is map segments. You can only load 2025, no matter what size memory card you are using.

 

I'm currently using a (Sandisk) 2GB card with all of CN8 and some selected topo maps on it. If you are loading a whole bunch of topo maps go with a 512 or 1 GB since you will run up against the map segment limit long before reaching a actual memory limit.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Rick

[canuck travellers]

Thanks to all who answered, really appreciate your replies.....Ernie

 

Looking at buying a Micro SD for my 60CSX, Buy.com looks like good prices, I want to load at least part of V8 Navigator & US TOPO, anyone do that & if so what size did you chose?

 

I bought this 1 GB Kingston card and City Navigator North America 8 NT. I found the 1 GB card to be overkill for my needs, as it would hold the whole USA with room for some TOPO maps and POIs left over. I didn't need the whole US on one card, because I rarely leave Pennsylvania, let alone the eastern half of the US. I put the 1 GB card into my PDA and now have a 512 MB card in my 60CSx. I still have street maps loaded from Maine down to North Carolina and Kentucky, and the topo maps for most of that area as well, with room for POIs left over.

 

The key to this is making sure you get the NT version of City Navigator, as the maps contain the same data as the non-NT version but are compressed better, and therefore require less storage space.

 

A 1 GB card should be plenty if you're running CityNav 8 NT with Topo maps. My 1 GB card was $30 when I bought it, looks like it's $33 now. A 512 MB card is going for $15 at the site I linked above, and is probably more than enough unless you do frequent travel across many states. You can always take 5 or 10 minutes to reload the card if you're going to travel, it's not a big deal to do that.