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Posted by Grant Noeske on 06-12-2014 04:41 PM:

Garmin Birdseye - Memory Card GB Size Question

I'm helping a guy put a map on a card for his Garmin and he also wants to put the birdseye view on it. He'd like several states in the Midwest on the card. How many GB's of memory should he need?

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Posted by longshooter86 on 06-17-2014 02:46 AM:

I can put it this way I have a 8 GB card in mine and I dont even have half of nc, probably only a quarter, so I would say that he should get a 32 GB card. Or at least the biggest he can find.

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Posted by Rocketman55 on 06-17-2014 05:21 AM:

From what I have been told, a 32 gb card is the biggest that the Alpha and/or 320 can handle. Most Garmin techs will recommend no bigger than the 8 gb or 16 gb as the more info you put on the system, the slower it operates (much like a computer)

I was also told that the 320 and alpha can only hold a little over 200 files. Each section/area you choose to download creates One file, Thus you can only select approximately 200 to 225 areas to put on your system. Now when I downloaded mine, I found that the system worked much better if you kept your file sizes to very near 200gb to 225gb per file. If you make your individual; files much larger than that, say 285gb to 350gb, it will lock your 320 or alpha up, and it will shut down/off, as it is unable to read a file that size even though your computer will allow you to capture a file that size.

So I would recommend you go with a 16gb card, keep your file size 200 to 225 GB and download as much as you can on that card. When capturing an area to download your computer will initially tell you the (approximate) number of GB's you are capturing, then after it completes reviewing the area you are wanting to download it will then give you the ACTUAL GB size of the down load. The actual size of the down load is the one that you must make certain does NOT exceed the 200 to 225 GB size.

This may not be exact but I worked for 3 weeks tweaking mine so that it would not lock up when I tried to turn it on.

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Posted by Doug A on 06-17-2014 01:07 PM:

Dave- I'm a bit confused. How big should the file size be? 200- 225 gb or mb? If it's gb, I'm missing something then as the sd card is only 16 gb. I feel dumb.

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Posted by Billy Beckham on 06-17-2014 03:49 PM:

Always remember that the more birdseye stuff you down load the longer it takes them to turn on.

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Posted by Grant Noeske on 06-17-2014 04:00 PM:

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Originally posted by Doug A
Dave- I'm a bit confused. How big should the file size be? 200- 225 gb or mb? If it's gb, I'm missing something then as the sd card is only 16 gb. I feel dumb.

I'm pretty sure that when he mentioned files sizes of 200 to 225, that he meant MB, rather than GB. The card wouldn't hold them if they were 200 GB.

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Posted by Rocketman55 on 06-17-2014 05:13 PM:

You guys are right, it is mega bytes (MB) and not gigaBytes (GB)

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