Nextbase SD Cards™
For best results, we recommend using our Nextbase branded SD cards with your Dash Cam, available™
to purchase online from , or your nearest retailer.nextbase.com
When using your Dash Cam with a Rear Facing Camera, a U1 or higher SD Card is required.
We recommend formatting your SD Card every 2 weeks to ensure that there is enough space to
record and store new footage. When formatting, protected files WILL be deleted. If you wish to keep
these protected files, you must back then up externally, most commonly by saving files to a desktop
computer, or another secure storage point.
To clear your SD card, go to the ‘Format SD Card’ function in your Dash Cam Settings’ Setup Menu
and follow the instructions on screen.
Which SD Card should I use in a Dash Cam?
Nextbase have designed an SD card specifically to fulfil the needs of our Dash Cams. We work directly
with the factory to ensure consistency of the SD card quality. Nextbase have spent years testing, trialling
and developing SD cards to optimise their performance with our Dash Cams.
Due to the differences in technology an SD card that works with a mobile phone or computer won't
necessarily work well with a Dash Cam. The main differences and selling points between all SD cards
are the storage size (16GB, 32GB, 64GB, etc.) and the READ speed. READ speed isn't too important
when it comes to Dash Cams, as a Dash Cam WRITES data to the SD card when recording. The ability
to maintain a high WRITE speed consistently is what Nextbase SD cards are designed to do better than
any other SD card. Any drop / fluctuation in WRITE speed within the SD card causes the Dash Cam
footage to buffer and in some cases will stop the recording entirely. Years of research and design
allows our SD card controller and Firmware on the SD card to achieve the requirements of our Dash
Cams, where other SD cards cannot.
A large requirement our Dash Cams place on the SD card is the ability to re-WRITE over the oldest
footage when the SD card memory becomes full. This means the Dash Cam is always Loop recording -
when the Dash Cam is on it is always recording. From our experience most non-Nextbase SD cards
struggle to do this as effectively as our SD cards, this has caused footage to be missing and footage
fail to record in the first place.
Best practise is still to Format the SD card occasionally – for a heavy user this would be every two weeks,
for a light user this would be once a month.
16GB 32GB 64GB 128GB
Approx 2 hours footage. Approx 4 hours footage. Approx 8 hours footage. Approx 16 hours footage.
Q&A
Q) “Why should I buy a Nextbase branded SD card? Can't I just use any card?”
A) Our cameras have different requirements to other recording devices; this is because they
need to keep recording when the SD card is full whilst overwriting the oldest unprotected files
at the same time.
Q) “Why are Nextbase SD cards more expensive than other brands SD cards?”
A) Years of research and development have led to the creation of an SD card that has superior
capabilities to ensure it works with a Dash Cam, where other SD cards don't have such capabilities.
Dash Cams have greater technological requirements from an SD card than a mobile phone or
computer, for example, thus the larger price tag.
Q) “Do non-Nextbase SD cards work at all?”
A) A card that is not made for this purpose may appear to work perfectly in the beginning,
although failure tends to happen after prolonged use, this could be days, weeks, or months.
In a worst-case scenario, you may only discover a recording failure after your SD card fails to
record a serious incident, therefore using a suitable card is imperative.
Q) I have a rear camera module as well as the Dash Cam, which SD card do I need?
A) If you are using a Rear Camera Module and a Dash Cam you need to ensure that a U1 or
higher SD card is used inside the camera. When using both the 380GWX and Rear Camera
Module our 32GB microSD Card will record approximately 180 minutes of video before the
Dash Cam begins overwriting the oldest footage. Similarly, the 32GB microSD Card will record
approximately 360 minutes of video, while the 128GB microSD Card will record approximately
720 minutes of video.
Q) “What errors may I encounter using a faulty or incompatible SD card?”
A) You may experience any of the following:
· SD error messages
· Recording failure
· Automatic recording failure
· Frozen screen
· Gaps between recordings
· Corrupted or unplayable files
· Failure to startup and shutdown
· Inoperable buttons
If you experience any of the faults listed above, we strongly recommend that you replace
your SD card with a Nextbase one.
All our Dash Cams are tested using Nextbase branded SD cards, therefore we cannot attest
to the compatibility of other manufactures products. For best results we always recommend
using Nextbase branded cards.
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