SD Card for Palm T|X? 512mb? 1GB? 2GB?

you mean GB :p

Elusor, what do you intend to put onto the memory card?
It's pointless spending money on a card with more capacity when you may never use it.
 
Elusor, that's useful to know - although I assume you mean GB, not MB!!

Camski, I'm looking at buying a 4GB card, it'll provide more room for MP3s and MPEGs so I can use my TX as an media player.
 
Apparently Palm said that the Palm TX will support up to 32GB.


When the day comes where we'll be using 32GB memory cards, i can safely say that this - Is the next generation iPod.
 
Oh really?..but they will never produce a 'standard' 32GB SD card so it will probably be a SDHC card which at the moment, Palm TX does not support but the newer Treo 680/760(?) does, although I have a feeling that someone is working on a workable patch/ad-on for this!

Then I can have my SatNav (Europe & Nth America Maps), Pictures and Tunes on ONE card and NOT have to think about swapping!!

I hope!! :D
 
According to the Palm web site - the max that they have confirmed is 2GB on the devices listed.

32GB on a Palm SD Card slot - not likely supported by Palm until another generation device comes out......and could you image the load time to add that much data through Hot Sync - better take a two week vacation while it loads.
 
I got a cheap 4GB SD-card from 7DayShop and the TX accepts it OK as 3.6GB of formatted capacity, unlike the T3 and Zodiac which both want to reformat it - oh, and although Filez shows its size as something like -300GB!

However, I've noticed that the TX is horribly slow to power on with the 4GB card in, and if I insert the card after powering on, it takes relative ages for the apps menu to come up. Has anyone seen similar - or better yet, found a solution?
 
This "slowness" is one of the reasons that Palm doesn't officially support anything larger than a 2GB card. And I suspect if you formatted it on the Tx it might not work anymore.....how well it will play an MP3?
 
I had to reformat it on the TX as it didn't work after I (out of curiosity...) let the Zodiac format it. (-:

Plays MP3s just fine so far. I've not even half-filled it yet, though.
 
I'm using a 2GB card in a T3. I can load the card with MP3 files using a card reader and play them with on the T3 with Pocketunes. I just cannot write to the card with the Palm installer or move from the handheld to the card.

Has anyone tried putting an SDHC card in one of these PDAs to see if it will read it at all? I'd love to be able to load up 8G of music instead of just 2G. An 8GB card is not very expensive if it works, but I don't want to buy one if this has been tried before.
 
Yes, I tried an SDHC card in mine, but the TX didn't even recognise that there was a card there.

So I've gone and got myself a 2GB card - under a tenner from eBuyer. Not as much room for media files but at least the TX starts up straight away and doesn't get all confuzzled, like it does with the 4GB card in.
 
@gt3000bk:
Boy oh boy that's a question that will start a debate raging! Ha ha ha!! Perhaps a good one . . . so I'll give you my 2 cents and let the "fur fly" from others that think I'm completely nuts and will vehemently swear by the very thing I denounce.

I had 2 SanDisk cards that went bad. Quickly. I ONLY use Panasonic (and have a 256MB I've had almost 3 years with a LOT of use and no problems, despite even defragging it via my PC).

My Nikon D80 digital camera also uses Secure Digital - and in that I have several Lexar 60x 1MB cards that have been flawless. Now 2GB is lower in price ($140 down to $59, and 133x write speed) I'll step up to those in my Nikon, but will keep the Panasonic in my T3 since I only fill around 80MB of the 256MB as it is.

My "2 cents," then, would be stay away from SanDisk. I believe Lexar make certain SanDisk cards - but you can't find that out til you open the packet - and twice burned, I wouldn't buy another one and "throw the dice."

My recommendation then from personal purchasing would be either Panasonic or Lexar Hi-Speed - although as Mooseman points out its ability might bottleneck at the Palm's writing ability. I also wouldn't buy a bigger card than you can foresee using, as camski pointed out. If you plan on 300MB, then a fast 512MB should be fine; I wouldn't use a 2GB unless you're planning on using at least half of the alotted size.

Now wait . . . someone will swear by SanDisk! It's all personal, but I've made up my mind and can pass these recommenations on to you as "my experience only."
 
Thanks for the input!
Have a TX on order that will mainly be used for paperless geocaching. Not real sure how much mem that will take up but was thinking 1gb should do the job.
Plan on getting two cards and using one as a system backup in case something bad happens :(
 
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