What size and type of SD-card fits in Columbus? Anyone tried a 128 GB class 10 card?

The Columbus in my Superb only takes up to 32Gb cards. It's happily using an SDHC card, don't know about SDXC though.

Not very gargony me but size whilst an issue, ain't the most important bit of an SD Card as I understand it, Read Speed is the key especially if your SatNav is slow starting up and I know stripping the countries out that you don't go to does help I kinda think Skoda won't have brought the best SD Cards to put the SatNav data on  So unless you're gonna store all your kids favorite movies to play to them whilst stationary I'd advise the fastest read speed you can afford and not the biggest data storage that you'll probably never need/use. 

 

No grip just, tell it as I see it.

Yes - I'm using a 128GB Class 10 SD card for my Columbus and it works just fine.

 

This is the one I bought:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CX8SJDM?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s01

With the touch screen on the Columbus I find it difficult to select the artists/albums when you have too many tracks in the list.

Scrolling up & down is difficult especially when driving.

 

Therefore I use 2x smaller 32GB cards and group the music into different genres to make it easier to select.

You can use the internal harddrive for storing some of the songs as well.

Not very gargony me but size whilst an issue, ain't the most important bit of an SD Card as I understand it, Read Speed is the key especially if your SatNav is slow starting up and I know stripping the countries out that you don't go to does help I kinda think Skoda won't have brought the best SD Cards to put the SatNav data on So unless you're gonna store all your kids favorite movies to play to them whilst stationary I'd advise the fastest read speed you can afford and not the biggest data storage that you'll probably never need/use.

No grip just, tell it as I see it.

According to Skoda Norway the car isn't delivered with a SD card at all. So, I suppose the maps are pre-installed on the hard drive?

Edited 27 January, 201511 yr by borchgrevink

I have a couple of 128GB cards and a 64GB USB. Work fine, except for an intermittent problem when sometimes I start the car and rather than playing what I was listening too previously, it plays the first track on the first album in the first folder on SD card 1....have now discovered that it doesn't do this if I only have one card/usb inserted...so maybe something to do with trying to read/register all the tracks upon start up.

FWIW I bought these too and they have worked fine for several months now:

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Komputerbay-Secure-Digital-Extended-Capacity/dp/B00CX8SJDM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422386194&sr=8-1&keywords=128gb+sd

Edited 27 January, 201511 yr by robs12

According to Skoda Norway the car isn't delivered with a SD card at all. So, I suppose the maps are pre-installed on the hard drive?

On a Columbus, yes they are on the HDD.

On the Amundsen they are on a SD card and you have to use the original card, you can't copy the maps to a faster card.

I have used Class 6 & 10 and can't spot any difference at all between them for audio playback and cataloging of the card contents.

 

Although I am now tending to rip the CDs direct to the Columbus HDD using the Columbus itself - the sound quality seems comparable to FLAC.