SDS100/SDS200: Memory card size

[noaim]

Any reason to upgrade the 8gb card in the sds100?


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[hiegtx]

Any reason to upgrade the 8gb card in the sds100?

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Not unless you plan to do a lot of recording. The largest size that Uniden says is 'supported' is a 32mb card. However, some people are using a 64mb card, and no problems using that size.

 

[randybcd396t]

Not unless you plan to do a lot of recording. The largest size that Uniden says is 'supported' is a 32mb card. However, some people are using a 64mb card, and no problems using that size.

I use a 64gb card with no problem. The key is formatting it for FAT32. The recommended card formatter only formats to FAT32 if 32gb or less.

 

[troymail]

As Steve said - the normal data on the SD card really doesn't take up all that much room - unless something drastically changes/has changed over the x36 models.

Recordings can take up alot over time (depending upon how busy the system are that you are monitoring) but on the x36 models, the radio/firmware results in a crash/reboot (disabling recording) once you get to/over 2Gb of recordings.... this then disables future recording without manually intervention by the user. But that's the x36 models....

The SDS-100 appears to have improved RECording such that (at least) the RECording setting is now "sticky" - that is, the radio remembers that you enabled recording when the radio is power cycled. I'm running full time recording on my loaner SDS-100 to see if the radio still crashes like the x36... I'm currently at just over 1 Gb (17,000 recordings) and the card is still reporting 6.2 Gb available....

 

[Ubbe]

SD cards have a "natural" max size of 32GB and when you go above that you have to do some kind of memory page flipping that are done differently with different brands and sizes in the cards own interface, so that some devices can't handle big SD cards at all and others have problem with certain cards. If you want to play it safe you should restrict yourself to max 32GB SD cards.

/Ubbe

 

[noaim]

Thanks!!


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