SD Cards

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 9:45 pm

Well my GP2x should be coming in a day or two, and I was looking into getting an SD Card. I was wondering if I should go for a 3rd party kind, or if I should stick with the more expensive one such as the SanDisk brand. The reason I ask this is because some cards supposively have trouble on the 2x when it comes to upgrading firmware or being compatible with the system. I have enough money for either kind, but I just wanted your opinions on this

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:04 pm

i got a 1 gig sandisk off ebay and it works fine

xxxeagle · Post by **xxxeagle** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:10 pm

I'm not sure about the 2x firmware problems but I have a 512mb pny sd card for my digital camera and it works fine it seems like a good product so I guess a pny card would be a good choice also I have pny flash drive and its treated me well so going with a third party brand may not be a bad idea.

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:13 pm

i think the 2x problems are mostly with toshiba brand cards

Post by **Triton** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 10:56 pm

which, of course, i have lol, works fine cept for updating. there are several "house" brands which are relabeled toshiba cards. get the cheapest card yu can is what i would do, you can get gig cards online for arounf 55$

Bay_Wolf · Post by **Bay_Wolf** » Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:17 pm

Lexar media is pretty good and cheap.

Regards

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 12:35 pm

Thanks for the advice guys, I ended up buying a 1gb sd card from newegg.com $36.44 plus 8 bucks with shipping and tax (Original price was $56.44 but you get a $20 rebate) Hopefully it will work well

EDIT: Here is the link

sam · Post by **sam** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 1:57 pm

minkster wrote:Thanks for the advice guys, I ended up buying a 1gb sd card from newegg.com $36.44 plus 8 bucks with shipping and tax (Original price was $56.44 but you get a $20 rebate) Hopefully it will work well

Link

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:23 pm

I found out about 20mins ago my GP2x came in! It really looks very sleek and the menu looks very nice. I don't think you can do much with it if you don't have an SD card, so I will have to wait a couple of days for the order to come in

Oh well, at least once it comes in I'm all set

Turbo Tax 1.0 · Post by **Turbo Tax 1.0** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 4:53 pm

i was real lucky my card and 2x came the same day by the same exact mail main.

make sure you buy a card reader too, i think the usb function is kinda faulty and format it to fat32 before you use the card i hear if you dont you can brick it

minkster · Post by **minkster** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 5:04 pm

Turbo Tax 1.0 wrote:i was real lucky my card and 2x came the same day by the same exact mail main.

make sure you buy a card reader too, i think the usb function is kinda faulty and format it to fat32 before you use the card i hear if you dont you can brick it

my computer actually has an SD cardreader built in. I don't know if it works though since I never tried it

Extreme_Jesus · Post by **Extreme_Jesus** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:08 pm

most things that take SD cards also take MMC cards, which are a few quid cheaper in most cases, sure its only 2 or 3 pounds but whatever