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Old 10-20-2010, 01:11 PM
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Memory Card - What type and capacity ?

I purchase 16GB SDHC card for my 2009 E350 i wasnted to copy all my MP3 and play from memory card.

16GB SDHC class 10 card doe snot work any reason why ?

I have a 2GB regular SD card that works fine.

Question : what card will work and max capacity ?

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From what i remember reading you can only use 2GB sd card as the largest possible.
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Thanks for the reply wow that sucks. Don't get it why they would limit the card reader size.

Does it really matter if you can read 8gb or 16 gb unless there some rule from other electronic manufacturer's limiting Mercedes. I simple software upgrade will fix it but i guess that is to easy..

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I've found that it isn't the card size but the format SD vs SDHC. SDHC cards don't work for some weird reason. I use a 2GB SD Card, and it works fine, just copy as many songs on it, then get another one for the rest of your songs.
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Originally Posted by faz999
Thanks for the reply wow that sucks. Don't get it why they would limit the card reader size.

Does it really matter if you can read 8gb or 16 gb unless there some rule from other electronic manufacturer's limiting Mercedes. I simple software upgrade will fix it but i guess that is to easy..

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They didn't choose to limit it, it was a limitation of the technology at the time. The SD card standard could not address anything larger than 4GB of memory space so they came up with SDHC to extend that to 32GB (or as much as 2TB if you don't strictly follow the SDHC guidelines). The problem is devices designed before the SDHC standard do not know how to address the new SDHC cards. Newer devices are backwards compatible (SDHC device can read a SD card) but not the other way around.

Note, I think while 4GB was technically possible in the standard I don't think anyone ever made 4GB regular SD cards. All of those are SDHC as far as I know, so you're stuck with 2GB.

edit: actually Transcend did make a standard SD 4GB card that wasn't SDHC, part # TS4GSDC. There might be others if you google around.

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Here's one that looks super sketchy but hey it's just 20 bucks

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=320389009211
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Thanks all for the reply

I just purchased 2Gb trandsend from amazon 5.69 shipped i guess i can buy 2 or even 3 of them.

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Originally Posted by clkwork
They didn't choose to limit it, it was a limitation of the technology at the time. The SD card standard could not address anything larger than 4GB of memory space so they came up with SDHC to extend that to 32GB (or as much as 2TB if you don't strictly follow the SDHC guidelines). The problem is devices designed before the SDHC standard do not know how to address the new SDHC cards. Newer devices are backwards compatible (SDHC device can read a SD card) but not the other way around.

Note, I think while 4GB was technically possible in the standard I don't think anyone ever made 4GB regular SD cards. All of those are SDHC as far as I know, so you're stuck with 2GB.

edit: actually Transcend did make a standard SD 4GB card that wasn't SDHC, part # TS4GSDC. There might be others if you google around.
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