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With the sd cards, Can You safely store waypoints, recordings, snapshots and do updates on one card with no corruption of the card? If corruption is an issue, How do You deal with it? Especially corruption of updates? don't want to have to send my unit back to HB because I scrambled its brains. Is it safer to use one card for updates and another for all the other normal functions or can I get by fine with just one which is what I would prefer to do? Thanks. CF
I use one sd card to put my waypoints on so I can look at them on google earth and another sd card to update my unit. One card should be sufficient to do both though.
I forgot, I use the card I upgrade my unit with for the snapshots and recordings, I like to keep my waypoints seperate from everything else. I use a 2 gb card. Good luck.
Necessary to keep SD card data separate..??....probably not...
More to keep up with with separate cards..??...yup...
SD cards are cheap...(compared to the HB service charge)..
Why risk "scrambling the unit's brains"....??
I keep 5 SD cards with my unit at all times..
1 for curent version of software....
1 for previous version of software...
1 for backed up waypoints...
1 with saved snapshots and recordings...
1 blank for today's snapshots and recordings...
Your choice whether you keep your stuff separate...
I like the comfort of knowing there is nothing on the software SDs that could possibly lock up my unit...
But then again, I am OCD...:)...
Rickie
I'm a little worse than you Rickie...I'm CDO..that's like OCD except all the letters are in correct order. Rofl
HB Service fee for my 1197.... $338.95 Humminbird Repair FeesQuote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
Again... SD cards are cheap (compared to the HB service charge)...
Rickie
I use one card for all of it. On update day, I download my waypoints (to update my laptop file), download my update from HB, leave card in the unit for next time.
will any SD card work on these?
While I have heard many reports on successful SD card brands... HB recommends the Sandisk Extreme III SD (or SDHC)....Quote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
Rickie
Perfect---what would be the optimal size (gb wise) I have a 8gb sandisk sdhc nowQuote:
Originally Posted by rnvinc
Have heard 4 gb will hold many hours of recordings. I think 8 gb would be a gracious plenty.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
Great--thanks. Also for updates--it doesn't have to be all that big does it?Quote:
Originally Posted by crappiefarmer
read 1 or 2 gb would hold updates just fine. That would be the way to go if You are going to buy separate cards for different things. If you are planning to use just one card, then go higher than the 8. I think You can go as high as 32.CFQuote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
Thanks a bunch for your helpQuote:
Originally Posted by crappiefarmer
HB claims their units will accept up to the 32Gb cards...Quote:
Originally Posted by KDAVID1
Optimal size would be more of a SD card cost factor...(higher Gb cost more)..
I would suggest at least a 2Gb if you are going to use the recording feature of the HB unit...
Recordings should be kept to less than 30 minutes each....especially if you plan on viewing recordings in Humviewer... There is a LOT of GPS data that has to be loaded into the Humviewer program to view...
You can get several 30 minute recordings on a 2Gb card....
Software updates are small in comparison to recordings... So card size for updating your unit is not really important...I think even a small 128mB card would probably work for updating software...
Rickie
The largest software update that I have seen was less than 20MB in size so even an old 32MB MMC memory card could be used. Future software updates may be larger though so I would look for a larger memory card than that. I don’t think that you could easily find anything smaller than a 2GB SD memory card now, so this should not be a worry.
Thank you sir--I appreciate it. Do you mind if I PM you with questons--from time to time? Just got the 597 and am very new to the GPS DI stuff.Quote:
Originally Posted by Humminbird_Greg
I don’t have a problem with PMs but since I do not always have the time to get onto CC you should send me a direct email instead (see below for email addy).