BCD436HP/BCD536HP: Are the Micro SD cards Interchangeable between the BCD436HP & the BCD536HP ? AND...

[rbluesky]

Hi All ANOTHER stupid question or 2 Are the Micro SD cards interchangeable between the 436HP and the 536HP, ? and would it be better to use
Sandisk HIGH endurance OR the Industrial micro sd cards and use the fastest possible cards ???
What is the BEST size to get 8gb or 16Gb ? My BCD436HP came used with a CHEAP 4 Gb I replace it with a class 10 8gb Sandisk
"Some People say" these are critical and to always buy Brand name or your data will get corrupted with the cheap knocks offs from Aliexpress

thanks !

 

[dave3825]

What is the BEST size to get 8gb or 16Gb ? My BCD436HP came used with a CHEAP 4 Gb

Unless you do a ton of recording, 4 gb is fine.

 

[RandyKuff]

The 4 Gb card is more than likely the SD card that came with the scanner when bought new...
Which for Favorite lists is more than sufficient in size... Even for doing some recording...
But recording to the card and then deleting the recordings over and over is what puts a lot of wear and tear on the SD card...
In that case (If your going to be doing alot of recording) a High Endurance card would be preferred.... Even if not doing any recording I still would get a High Endurance card... The scanner can support up to a 32 Gb SD card...

And yes the SD cards are interchangeable between the 436 and 536...

 

[Ubbe]

The Class of a memory card only says at what speed you can read and write to the card. For a Uniden scanner it will be overkill using even a Class 1 card.

If a SD card have a finite number of write cycles until it fails then a 32GB will allow one memory cell to be written while a 8GB card have written to the same cell 4 times. So a 32GB will have 4 times longer life. 32GB are probably the most cost effective size to use.

Recordings are done at a rate of 128kilobits/s. A 32Gigabyte SD card are 256Gigabits. That makes it 2 million seconds, or 33 thousand minutes, or 550 hours, or 23 days, when the whole cards memory cells have been written to once if you have recordings being done constantly from conversations 24/7. The number of max writes are usually 10.000 or more, so multiply that with 23 days and you get 630 years. No wonder that Sandisk has a lifetime warranty for its memory cells.

/Ubbe

 

[rbluesky]

Unless you do a ton of recording, 4 gb is fine.

Hi Dave, Not sure if you know this But the 4gb Micro SD cards are very hard to fine are they manufactures dropping them because of Low sales ?? And if you do fine them, there off brand names

 

[Whiskey3JMC]

Hi Dave, Not sure if you know this But the 4gb Micro SD cards are very hard to fine
And if you do fine them, there off brand names

Sure about that? SanDisk is the most well-renown name in the biz. If you search the right places you can FIND them FINE

 

[dave3825]

Or SanDisk

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=sandisk+4gb+micro+sd+card&crid=3U5Q360LFFRWP&sprefix=sandisk+4gb+micro+sd+card%2Caps%2C88&ref=nb_sb_noss_1

 

[ofd8001]

The smaller SD cards are getting harder to find. Probably due to higher capacity ones becoming less costly.

Uniden recommends the endurance type of card, particularly if you record/replay, given the on-going read/write process.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/products/Micro-SD/ci/16425?filters=fct_capacity_568%3A32gb

Your scanner can accept up to 32 GB cards and at about $11.00 its money well spent.

 

[Ubbe]

That high endurance SD card, when using its specified values "The card life of 2500 hours is based off of recording Full HD video at 26 Mb/s to one device", are 200 times more data than 128Kb/s so 200x2500 hours are 57 years of constant recordings in a Uniden scanner.

/Ubbe