[icon-discuss] Re: mini said cards
- From: Robert Carter <r-carter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:58:46 -0500
Hi,
My experience has been a little different than Mary's. There is no debate about
the size.
Mini-sd cards are very small and could easily get lost. The two that I have
bought do come in
plastic cases which are the same size as the case for a regular compact flash
card. Storing
them in their case when not in use makes them easier to keep up with.
I have not found them to be fragile. I have been using a 1 gig mini-sd card in
my hp
iPaq for about the last year with no problems. I paid about $40 for it last
year. I recently
bought a 4 gig card for $40. The prices are coming down.
Robert Carter
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:24:32 -0500, Larry Lumpkin wrote:
>points well made. Thank you very much. I have a stick drive and that
>should be fine.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:25 AM
>Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: mini sd cards
>
>
>Larry,
>
>Not sure what you're referring to but I bought mini SD cards from
>amazon.com; prices vary depending on how many gigs the card will hold. I
>really don't like them much. They are so tiny and fragile, and the
>little adapters they come with, that you can use with a regular SD card
>device, are so fragile that you can break the adapter when you just want
>to take the mini SD card out of it. The mini cards are the size of a
>postage stamp and in my opinion at least, are far too fragile to be a
>dependable way of keeping your data intact, and if you do a lot of data
>transfers, I don't see how the cards would survive continuous use.
>
>In my opinion, the readers aren't much better. I got one that's about
>the size of the little case that the regular SD cards come in, and that
>case is hard to use because it's hard to get the mini card out of it. It
>goes in so far you can barely get in there to get the card out.
>
>So I think i'm going for a thumb drive. They'are a little bigger and I'd
>rather have something a little more robust in shape and useability.
>
>Mary
>points well made. Thank you very much.
>I have a stick drive and that should be fine. ----- Original Message
>----- From: maryemerson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To:
>icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 12:25
>AM Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: mini sd
>cards Larry, Not sure what you're referring to but I bought
>mini SD cards from amazon.com; prices vary depending on how many gigs
>the card
>will hold. I really don't like them much. They are so tiny and fragile,
>and
>the little adapters they come with, that you can use with a regular SD
>card
>device, are so fragile that you can break the adapter when you just want
>to
>take the mini SD card out of it. The mini cards are the size of a
>postage
>stamp and in my opinion at least, are far too fragile to be a dependable
>way
>of keeping your data intact, and if you do a lot of data transfers, I
>don't
>see how the cards would survive continuous use. In my opinion, the
>readers aren't much better. I
>got one that's about the size of the little case that the regular SD
>cards
>come in, and that case is hard to use because it's hard to get the mini
>card
>out of it. It goes in so far you can barely get in there to get the card
>out.
>So I think i'm going for a thumb drive. They'are
>a little bigger and I'd rather have something a little more robust in
>shape
>and useability. Mary
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