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GentleGiant Experienced

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They were selling these even cheaper a couple of months back, I bought two for £20!!

Sadly, they are crap.

One died the first time I tried to load anything onto it, and the other locks up if you try and transfer large files; it looks like the controller circuitry on the cards is dodgy, as afterwards it would only transfer data at 1MBPS instead of the 10+ MBPS a class 10 card should give.

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They were selling these even cheaper a couple of months back, I bought two for £20!!

Sadly, they are crap.

One died the first time I tried to load anything onto it, and the other locks up if you try and transfer large files; it looks like the controller circuitry on the cards is dodgy, as afterwards it would only transfer data at 1MBPS instead of the 10+ MBPS a class 10 card should give.

Did you post any feedback on your issues?

It would be worthwhile doing so, as all the reviews I read were positive

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Just to follow-up on this. Ordered one and it seems fine and so far so good!!!

Thanks for pointing it out Brimma - good man! :thumbup:

HTH :)

I can't believe that that card has a bigger memory than the hard drive on my first Time tower, which had 27Gb :o

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I did post a "neutral" feedback comment; the cards arrived quickly, and the first replacement card was dealt with without problems; sadly it was the day I was leaving for China that the 2nd card started playing up (literally an hour before leaving the house); my netbook doesnt have the info on the purchase, so I cannot quote order numbers etc to back up any complaint.

The replacement card is so far behaving itself, although I am avoiding stressing the controller and only loading files in small batches, and not the 25GB folder that killed the first one and damaged the second.

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HTH :)

I can't believe that that card has a bigger memory than the hard drive on my first Time tower, which had 27Gb :o

My first PC had a 2Gb hard drive. My old digital camera has more memory than.

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My first PC had a 2Gb hard drive. My old digital camera has more memory than.

My first PC had 105MB hard disk. A 386 DX40 (oohh 32bit computing!!) with 1MB of RAM. Floppy disk, no sound card (bought a sound blaster II), no CD ROM. Cost £1200 !! Bought it as I was at Uni doing Software Engineering. Ahh, those were the days :rofl:

Also had a "TURBO" button so you could switch between a clock speed of 8MHz and a flat out 40MHz!

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My first PC had 105MB hard disk. A 386 DX40 (oohh 32bit computing!!) with 1MB of RAM. Floppy disk, no sound card (bought a sound blaster II), no CD ROM. Cost £1200 !! Bought it as I was at Uni doing Software Engineering. Ahh, those were the days :rofl:

Also had a "TURBO" button so you could switch between a clock speed of 8MHz and a flat out 40MHz!

Storage is crazy these days, my first Mac must have been around the same time as your PC - 16MHz, 8MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive! Even flash storage in the last few years, I think I have an old 512MB SD card kicking about from a Windows Mobile smartphone (if you could call it that!), it can't be any more than 5 years old.

Shall order a nice cheap 32GB card next week I think.

samuir1974, did you ever get your car back?

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Storage is crazy these days, my first Mac must have been around the same time as your PC - 16MHz, 8MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive! Even flash storage in the last few years, I think I have an old 512MB SD card kicking about from a Windows Mobile smartphone (if you could call it that!), it can't be any more than 5 years old.

Shall order a nice cheap 32GB card next week I think.

samuir1974, did you ever get your car back?

Nah - scumbags did a good job in getting rid of it! :'(

Shame - such a nice motor too :thumbup:

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Storage is crazy these days, my first Mac must have been around the same time as your PC - 16MHz, 8MB RAM and an 80MB hard drive! Even flash storage in the last few years, I think I have an old 512MB SD card kicking about from a Windows Mobile smartphone (if you could call it that!), it can't be any more than 5 years old.

Shall order a nice cheap 32GB card next week I think.

samuir1974, did you ever get your car back?

Your right, its crazy. Back in the day some of the equipment I worked on had 16K RAM modules that were the size of a toaster !

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Nah - scumbags did a good job in getting rid of it! :'(

Shame - such a nice motor too :thumbup:

Ah that sucks.

Quick question for you all. Do the Skoda systems use filenames or ID3 tags for music read from the SD slot?

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My first PC had an external 20MB HDD, but did have a massive 512KB of RAM inside. (I still have both, although I did upgrsde the HDD to a massive 200MB) Re my previous post, my card reader died shortly after arriving in China, so the dead and damaged cards may have been caused by that, and not a dodgy onboard controller. I will update after sorting out my main PC and testing the cards on the built in card reader.

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