+Delta68 Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 The Mio P550 takes SD cards up to 2GB. I presume that 2GB was just the largest capacity available when the P550 was first designed. My question is: will larger capacity cards work? I suspect that 8 and 16GB SDHC cards might not work but what about 4GB SD cards? Anyone tried using one? Would it just be a matter of a driver upgrade or something for SDHC cards to work? (I contacted Mio and they said, "We only support the use of a standard card up to 2 GB.") Thanks Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 I bought a 4gb for my MIO350 and it did not work. In fact ive still got it if anyone wants to buy it £16 ill post it for free. Does anyone know how many memory maps (os 25000) a 2gb card will hold ?. Quote Link to comment
+keehotee Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Does anyone know how many memory maps (os 25000) a 2gb card will hold ?. How long is a piece of string? I've got the whole of the south west on a my card down to 1:25000 - but the individual maps range from 21Mb to 160Mb, depending on where they are (and I suspect how many features there are visible on each). I'm only using 1Gb of my card - the rest's for games and apps - but that 1 Gb has cornwall, devon, and somerset at 1:25000, 1:50000, and 1:250000 on it Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 (edited) I bought a 4gb for my MIO350 and it did not work. Was that an SD card or SDHC? You can get non HC 4GB SD cards through ebay Edited January 25, 2008 by Delta68 Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 The answer to your Question is that the largest card which will work with your MIO P550 is 4GB, but you need the correct one. I currently use in my MIO P550 a Transcend 150x 4GB SD card, which I purchased from Memory C This card works, other SD cards might also, but SDHC will not. As the SD card bus can't address over 4GB it is highly unlikely that you will get bigger than 4GB Quote Link to comment
+Moote Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Just looked at the link on eBay, now there is an article in the eBay advice section which warns about buying SD cards from HK as many are of extreme low quality. I guess it is buyer beware, the card I have linked to above is 1 High Speed (Important for application speed) 2 Warranted for Lifetime Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted January 25, 2008 Author Share Posted January 25, 2008 Thanks for the advice Moote! Being able to put all of memorymap on one card would be handy but 'm not sure I can justify spending that much... Thanks Quote Link to comment
+L8HNB Posted January 25, 2008 Share Posted January 25, 2008 Memory C also has a similar 4gb 150x sd card by "Time" at half the price! Go on, did deep Mark H Quote Link to comment
markandlynn Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 Memory C also has a similar 4gb 150x sd card by "Time" at half the price! Go on, did deep Mark H SDHC it was this one Quote Link to comment
+L8HNB Posted January 30, 2008 Share Posted January 30, 2008 The new Mio P360/560's use SDHC cards apparently......... Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted February 22, 2008 Author Share Posted February 22, 2008 OK, so I bought a 4GB card non HC and it doesn't work in the Mio It came with a USB adapter and it seems to work in the PC ok. This one It says HC right down the bottom but I emailed them first and they confirmed that it wasn't. Quote Link to comment
+Delta68 Posted February 23, 2008 Author Share Posted February 23, 2008 I just got an email from them admitting that they are HC What a waste of time that was!! Quote Link to comment
+Wadders Posted February 23, 2008 Share Posted February 23, 2008 Sandisc ultra ii works in my p550 ok. 4gb Quote Link to comment
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