Sandisk SD card/disk thingo

Yes mate.....might need some tuition from you when I see you next time!!!! (like LOTS of tuition; starting with how to turn it on!!!!!).hahaha

Muddy,

What's your thoughts about the sd card?

Cards like these are pretty much a commodity nowadays and there is little to go wrong with them. They MIGHT be a generic knockoff of the real SanDisk ones but then they might also be a good deal having bought bulk as opposed to the other site that only sells a few as accessories to people who can't be bothered looking for better prices.

I would look in Dick Smiths, Tandy's or Officeworks first. I am actually wanting one for mine so will have a look tomorrow at Officeworks and if they are cheap I can give you a bell.

Cheers
Muddy

Hi Muddy doe, there's a place on Morphett St Adelaide called MSY Computers, they have the 2gb SD cards for $31. they don't sell the 4gb cards at all.

The cheapest place in town for PC gear

www.msy.com.au/Parts/PARTS.pdf

Scroll down to - High "A Grade" Flash Memory

Thanks for that Skippy!

Will give it a look

Cheers
Muddy

Good call, Robin,,,,, Nothing like backup ,, especially at that price
Cheers Mate
Bucky

I found Dick Smiths SD cards far more expensive than those on e-bay. Bought a 512Mb card & reader from DS to see how these things work with my ageing laptop.
I then got a 4Gb card from E-bay, shipped from Canada, at less total cost than the 512mb card from DS.
Wanting still more storage I got an 8Gb card from the US, at only slightly more than the DS card was.
Both cards work fine, the 8Gb came with a free card reader (thumb drive style) and stores nearly all my electronic maps (the 4 gig holds the rest), freeing up much space from the 20 gig lappy harddrive.
I bought the cards 'buy now', I do not like the bidding process and am happy with what I got.
Somebody mentioned that one cannot fill the cards completely which I also found to be true. I think it has something to do with the indexing of the data. But what is a few megabytes short of 8 gig, its nowhere near as bad as some would say.
Klaus

Hi Member No 1,
I had a similar problem with an SD card for a car stereo, it is all to do with creating a folder/s and not storing or trying to store files in the root directory, once I created a folder I did get close (a few Meg short) to 1Gig of mp3's on the cards I bought when I bought the stereo.
Hope this clears it up for some people, same would apply with photos, storing in the root directory has limited indexing thus the 500 odd Mb limit.

Shane

Hi all
All 2 Gb or less use the FAT16 file system. The 4 Gb or more use the FAT32 file system. The FAT16 will work in FAT 32 systems but not the other way around. So check your system b4 you buy 4gigs !!! Even latest NextG phones only have FAT 16 system.
Ian

Worst delivery of any company last times I used them too. Lucky to get the items in three weeks. There have been a lot of things there at over retail price too, though I have occasionally found things to advantage.

In short, I have found ebay people better!

Ripped of by a chinaman!!! Genuine SanDisk 2Gb are available ex Melbourne for $21.50 plus $4.99 postage. And received in less than 1 week. 5 year warranty.
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Ian

I bought a 2.0Gb Sandisk card today at Officeworks and paid 40 bucks

A bit extra but at least I have it right here right now!

Ahh well