Capacity of the ResMed SD card has doubled?

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Capacity of the ResMed SD card has doubled?

Post by StuUnderPressure » Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:55 pm

The ResMed SD card that came with my S9 AutoSet purchased in December 2011 has a usable capacity of 947 MB.

I was showing someone how to download the data from their ResMed SD card (S9 AutoSet purchased in late February 2013) & noticed that it had a usable capacity of 1.83 GB

Is ResMed now putting SD cards in their S9 AutoSets that has twice the capacity than previous.

You will never fill up even the 1 GB ResMed SD card, so I was wondering why they doubled the capacity to 2 GB?

Is it merely the lack of any 1 GB SD cards?
And ResMed is merely putting their name label on the more available 2 GB SD cards?

OR the S10 is coming out soon & it will utilize a 2 GB SD card?

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Re: Capacity of the ResMed SD card has doubled?

Post by khauser » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:03 pm

My guess: It's getting harder to find such "small" capacities and/or it's cheaper to go with 2Gb now.

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Re: Capacity of the ResMed SD card has doubled?

Post by chunkyfrog » Fri Apr 19, 2013 3:53 pm

I notice there is a sticky label over the original on the SD card.
Somebody may have gotten a pallet deal from DX.

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Re: Capacity of the ResMed SD card has doubled?

Post by Ticman » Fri Apr 19, 2013 5:55 pm

I use a 16gig card in my S9 all the time. It's still just gives me 7 days of detailed data before it over writes. I wish it would store more data but I think the machine software would need to change so it would be able to use the additional space.

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Re: Capacity of the ResMed SD card has doubled?

Post by chunkyfrog » Fri Apr 19, 2013 6:14 pm

The firmware is probably intentionally simple for typical RT's.

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