Tandem Tom

First off I really dislike electronic gadgets! But I understand the need. So here is my question. We have a Garmin 800 and I just got the Disc for European maps. I need to load the disc on my lap top then transfer it to the micro SD card that fits in the Garmin. The slot in my computer for the SD card is much larger. What " device" do I get to make this work?
Thanks!
Oh, did I mention I dislike gadgets!!

cafzali

Tom,

On most computers, there are two slots, the one you've discovered is the SD card slot which is obviously too large for the micro SD card and another right below it into which your card will fit. Once it's in, your computer to recognize it almost instantly.

Tandem Tom

Thanks for your reply.
I looked cloesely again at my notebook and I only see the SD slot. There is nothing below it.

kenji666

Try this:
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microS...+adapter+to+sd

Tandem Tom

Thanks!!

ItsJustMe

Every MicroSD card that I've ever bought came with an SD adaptor. I've got a dozen of them just lying around. You might want to ask coworkers or something, someone may just have one you can have.

BTW, just as an unrelated point, these days I'm buying nothing but Sandisk Ultra class 10 microSD cards. They only cost a buck or two more than the cheap ones and they work a lot better. Especially in the GoPro, which in my experience is ridiculously picky about the cards it will use - I have many cards and only two of them will work in the GoPro - and once used in the GoPro, I can't use them in anything else anymore without reformatting them multiple times. Many devices claim that there isn't a card in them at all if I put in a card formatted in a GoPro.

01 CAt Man Do

I'm usually all thumbs myself when it comes to computer tech stuff but I would think that it wouldn't be necessary to load the card into a slot on the computer ( although I'm sure that's a great option). Why can't you just put the card into the Garmin and then just plug the Garmin up to the computer using the ( included ) USB to mini-USB connector?

Whenever I load routes into my Garmin 705 it is done through the standard USB to mini-USB cord. Not only that but when I upgraded my maps on my Nuvi I've done the same thing. I've never thought about taking the card out and plugging it directly into the computer although I'm sure I could do that as well ( as my computer has several types of slots ) Hope this helps.

p2templin

My other expensive hobby is photography, and card speed (aka "class") really matters there. In something like a Garmin, which has been on the market for a few years, it's not going to have the ability to take advantage of the speed enhancements. If you aren't moving the card to your computer frequently (i.e. ejecting the card physically from the Garmin and inserting it into the laptop or card reader), speed will equate to wasted money. If the card works, the card works. If the card works today, it'll probably work for years, given the small amount of data written to a map card in a Garmin bike computer. That's my opinion anyway...

ItsJustMe

Yes. And the SanDisk Ultra UHC class 1 is the top rated card on the market now for both sequential and random writes. One review that I read showed that in 4K random writes, some cards become so slow that they're worse than floppy drives (something like 15K per second. That's 15 KILOBYTES per second - about 1000x slower than the "rated" speed). The SanDisk holds up well.

njkayaker

It's more complicated than that.

Some cards work better for 4K random writes and others work better for sequential (not random) writes. For video, you probably don't care about random writes of small pages.

njkayaker

I agree with this.

Also, it appears that the Garmins are slower if a large card is fairly full.

ItsJustMe

True, but the SanDisk Ultra UHC cards work well for all types of both reads and writes, and they're not really significantly more expensive than anything else. In fact this past week they were on sale at Amazon for extremely cheap - $21 for a 32GB card.