Customer Reviews

SanDisk 64 MB Secure Digital Card

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I ordered a SanDisk SDSDB-64R 64 MB Secure Digital Card for $[money]. I used it in my Magellan Meridian Platinum GPS. I use a Zio SD Card Reader to load up to 64 MB of maps and points of interest data from Magellan's newest street mapping software (as of 5-21-02) USA Streets & Destinations. The SD card works like a charm. On a recent trip I loaded maps (with street level detail) covering an area from Richmond, VA to Boston, MA. That filled the 64MB SD card. If you have a Magellan Meridian Model GPS you DO NOT need to pay Magellan's high price for SD memory. Buy SanDisk, save some money and HAVE FUN GPSing!

64mb Sandisk will sure hold the data, but if you need speed to access the data--this will not give it to you. It takes a few seconds to 1)access the card, then 2)to pull up information from the program you desire. Example:I have a informational book on my SD card, a fellow co-worker has the text version. A question is posed to myself and my co-worker.....my co-worker ultimately accessed the information faster than I could with my palm m500
+ 64mb SD card. My technology was then the brunt of many jokes....what could I say? Of note: the launcher III 3rd party application will speed the access of the card up by ~2seconds, but information retrieval is still embarassingly slow.

It is useful for large apps, etc.

However, it does put a drain on your battery so if you were unfortunate to purchase an m505. This will add to your drain.

However, I would still get the card. I use it since I have many apps.

First off, this card is great. Its small, sturdy, and delivers the space it said it would.

Second, the price is excellent.

Third, the nature of these cards is *much* slower than your handheld.

My motivations were to expand my Palm 505 and be able to hold plenty of documents and web data on my Palm. The problem I had was the Palm didn't want to use all that space. The Palm OS VFS works rather like a fair hack. I had to find software (MSMount and a new browser LauncherX -- the latter is a shareware product) to actually mount the apps and data on the remote drive as well as Filez which allows you to perform file system operations on the card.

After all this, my 505 works great with all the extra space.

I dropped my PDA and the MMC card popped out. Realized it was gone hours later, went back, found it. It had been run over by a truck or forklift, judging from the scratches. Popped it back in, it worked fine. I'd call that durable, wouldn't you?

16 is ok, 32 is better, 64 will let you sleep night, but 128 is where it's at for Secure Digital. If you are buying an SD card for your Palm, trust me and get the biggest you can afford. it's SOO nice to back things up and still have room for a few ebooks.

I bought this card for use with my new Sharp Zaurus SL-5000D PDA and was able to use it to move files from my PC to my PDA without a hitch. SanDisk makes great products in general; always great quality and easy to use.

I just got off the line with Toshiba. Their Pocket PC's are NOT compatable with Sandisk SD cards. They work for a while, then die. I bought three at once and two are toast now. Toshiba knows about this and has yet to post a warning or contact owners of their otherwise excellent Pocket PC's. BEWARE!

Not out en mass yet so it was difficult to obtain one for my PDA (which is also new). Light, clearly a boost to memory space on my PDA, it is something you won't be able to do without if you have large programs that require lots of memory (for instance, I run a few large medically related programs on my PDA which have a huge memory burden). I was worried about backward compatibility since my PDA only recommended SD cards as large as 16 MB but it proved to be of no concern as the device I have recognizes the card and all of its memory space. Of course, expense is a concern but I'm sure that will come down in the near future as well since this media type is proving to become an industry standard. Get one! (unless you can wait for the 128 MB cards to show up).

I love San Disk Products! Their smart media cards are the best. They are very reliable and I have never received a faulty card. You can use them over and over... I like the 64MB size, it's perfect to take on trips and holds a nice amount of pictures. The price has really dropped in the last six months. I just purchased my fourth card. If your looking for smart media, stick with the brands you know and trust.