4GB SD cards for RNS-E at less than £5

[chrisru]

Having accidentally washed one of my SD cards the other week I was pleasantly surprised to find that you can now buy the 4GB cards on amazon for less than £5. Search for 4GB and Transcend and you will get a variety of cards listed, ignore the SDHC which won't work. I went for the cheapest unspecified speed cards (rather than the 150x or 133x) and they seem to work at just the same speed when I copy files to them.

I understand the limit on the cards is 512 files but using 320kbs encoding on MP3 that works out just about right - I have 424 files taking 3.9GB

Chris

 

[Richardesty]

I can't get my head unit to accept 4GB memory cards?!?!?!?

Am I doing something wrong?

 

[IainP]

You're prob using the SDHC as most of the bigger cards are this format.

 

[PetrolDave]

4GB SD cards formatted to FAT32 should work fine, I use several different makes.

Any size SDHC card won't work at all.

 

[S-Line_Wales]

Yep, am using said Transcend 4gb SD cards from Amazon.com seller "Chimpology", they arrived superfast & work with no problems in my recently installed RNS-E.

 

[gaz j]

I've just bought an A4 with RNS-e in and was wondering how you put music onto the sd cards? I've got i-tunes on my pc and a card writer aswell but thats as far as i can go. Any help appreciated.

 

[Rajiya_ne_Oudi]

I have an 8gb sd card not a sdhc...it works but some of the mp3's crackle and dont play properly anyone encounter this problem or know whats wrong?

 

[BahnStormer77]

not sure if there are ANY 8Gb non-SDHC cards, but success: confirmed... these 4Gb SD cards definitely work!!

£8.50 inc delivery!

https://www.picstop.co.uk/Secure-Digital-SD/Transcend-Secure-Digital-Card---4GB

non-SDHC

Just need to keep them formatted in FAT32...

I'm using 320kbp Fraunhofer codec compression, if that helps.

 

[PetrolDave]

not sure if there are ANY 8Gb non-SDHC cards.

There isn't - the SD standard specs the maximum size at 4GB - there isn't enough address bits for any more.

<= 2GB - always SD.
>= 8GB - always SDHC.
4GB - available as both SD and SDHC.

 

[S-Line_Wales]

not sure if there are ANY 8Gb non-SDHC cards, but success: confirmed... these 4Gb SD cards definitely work!!

£8.50 inc delivery!

https://www.picstop.co.uk/Secure-Digital-SD/Transcend-Secure-Digital-Card---4GB

non-SDHC

Just need to keep them formatted in FAT32...

I'm using 320kbp Fraunhofer codec compression, if that helps.

Try amazon.co.uk for these..half the price of that site above..

 

[Rajiya_ne_Oudi]

There isn't - the SD standard specs the maximum size at 4GB - there isn't enough address bits for any more.

<= 2GB - always SD.
>= 8GB - always SDHC.
4GB - available as both SD and SDHC.

Nope cant be true I certainly have a 8gb sd card its not a sdhc it works only thing is some of the songs crackle when being playedback id say 90% of them are ok so 8gb is definatly out there:icon_thumright:

 

[PetrolDave]

Nope cant be true I certainly have a 8gb sd card its not a sdhc

Read the SD card spec for yourself http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/

 

[Cupramax]

That says the SD max capacity is 2gb so thats clearly wrong as well

 

[PetrolDave]

Try Wikipedia then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital_card

SD: 4MB to 4GB
SDHC: 4GB to 32GB
SDXC: 32+GB to 32TB

 

[Addie]

I just got some off eBay - the seller will accept a 'Best Offer' of £6.29 each including P&P. Got them next day.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140302575623

Got them yesterday and now have 8Gb worth of music in my A4

 

[sukcede]

Hi
@ Rajiya_ne_Oudi: I'm searching for a SD 8GB not SDHC, where do you buy yours?
I've found Samsung MMC Plus 8Gb on the web but i don't know where i can buy this!
Do you have a idea?
Thank you

 

[PetrolDave]

I'm searching for a SD 8GB not SDHC

You'll search forever - there is no such thing as an 8GB SD card, if it's 8GB it's SDHC, period.