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Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: Omicron on August 05, 2004, 06:25:24 pm: Help me out, What card are you usinbg with your C860 (or CX00 for that matter) and would you recommend it.

Even items that you would STAY AWAY FROM will help me narrow the field.

I haven't decided on 512MB or 1GB, as it really depends on price I find once I decide on a brand.

Is there anything that could be too fast for a C860 ?? Or should I go for faster card on the market?

Thanks in Advance.
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: Ling on August 05, 2004, 06:56:42 pm: I currently am using my second Sandisk 512MB. The first one was in a digital camera and puked. Sandisk replaced it. I would not buy another one. If I were to upgrade to a 1GB card today, I would buy the 45X Transcend card. They are going for a decent price on eBay. Good luck.
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: mikew on August 06, 2004, 03:46:46 am: I have a 512mb Dane-Elec SD card which has worked well for 6 months, just ordered a 1gb unbranded card from Expansys for Â£127, should arrive early next week.

Mike
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: vinc17 on August 06, 2004, 08:33:35 pm: I had a 1GB SD card from eXpansys (sold as an eXpansys SD card, but it was an ATP), and it didn't work at all (lots of I/O errors, whether in vfat or in ext2). I had to send it back a few days ago.

I'm now using a 1GB Sandisk SD card, without any problem, but I didn't try to reformat it.
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: SteelMyst on August 07, 2004, 06:08:47 am: I've had my 512MB SanDisk since November and it works fine.
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: mikew on August 09, 2004, 03:32:15 am: I purchased a 1gb SD card from Expansys, it is marked KINGMAX Platinum.

Transferred all 500meg of data from old card & been using it for 3 days without any problem, reasonable speed compared with my Dane-Elec card as reading data from Dane-Elec was about twice as fast as writing to new card, all of which was done via USB with the card in the Zaurus.

Mike
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: vinc17 on August 09, 2004, 05:04:41 am: Have you tried ext2 or do you use it in vfat? Various users said that their Kingmax cards didn't work in ext2.
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: mikew on August 09, 2004, 08:09:06 am: Vinc17

I use plain FAT, did not even reformat it.

Mike
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: rgrep on August 10, 2004, 01:10:34 am: I have a 512MB Kingston SD card (after returning a very troublesome SanDisk 256MB card). No matter which card you end up buying, be sure to do a full badblock scan (read-only should be fine) before you start using it!
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: cgrieves on August 10, 2004, 09:05:22 am: I've been using a 512Mb simpletech ProX on my C860 for about a month now, and no problems so far. Speed when copying to the Zaurus is pretty good (haven't run the benchmarks yet) but when using a USB flash reader on the PC it's impressively quick.
Title: Looking for Best 512MB/1GB SD Card for C860
Post by: Omicron on August 11, 2004, 03:14:13 am: Quote
I have a 512MB Kingston SD card (after returning a very troublesome SanDisk 256MB card). No matter which card you end up buying, be sure to do a full badblock scan (read-only should be fine) before you start using it!

How i that done?