Nav v sd card

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There is no advantage in having a huge card, if all you want to do is put the Garmin map of Europe (or say a copy of an Open Street Map) onto it. 8gb will probably be enough, 16gb will give you lots of spare empty space.

This then brings about the question as to what you intend to use the space on the card for? As much as anything else, this will dictate the size of card. In short, a massive card, with very little on it, is just a load of empty space and a waste of money. People used to fill the cards with music, but as modern phones have become the jukebox of the 21st century and now link via Bluetooth with GPS devices, motorbike dashboards, earphones and other ‘entertainment’ paraphernalia, the reason for storing music on the GPS device itself is vanishing. As regards the speed of the card, the Nav V cannot deal with the really fast cards now available, it will simply run the super fast card at a lower speed or maybe (I don’t know) not at all. This means you might as well buy the lower speed card in the first place; it will be fast enough, trust me.

As to anything else, buy a decent recognised brand of card. Do not buy some shonky knock-off copy or some brand nobody has ever heard of, made in a Chinese sweatshop, just because it is very cheap on eBay. Good quality memory is cheap enough to justify buying a genuine, reliable, card.

In short, a modest sized, reasonably spec’ed, recognised brand card will very probably do you.
 
as wapping has indicated above always buy your sd card from a reputable supplier, there are many fake cards about that are very good copies and are almost impossible to spot from just looking at them, its not until you come to use them that you find that they are fake.
 
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