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Physical reliability of mini-SD cards in a SD-carrier?
Steve wrote:
I have a 2GB mini SD card for my mobile phone that would be handy as temporary storage with other devices I use. How reliable are the full-size SD-carrier/adapters that would allow me to use it occasionally in my camera or as data backup for my laptop while out and about? Has anyone had a failure with such a combination? I've used the adapter and card for data and photos for years with no loss of data due to the adapter. The adapter is just a signal pass-through with no electronics: http://www.camerahacker.com/Digital/..._Adapter.shtml In other words, are the contacts reliable after repeated insertion of the card in the carrier/adapter? With the plummeting price of flash memory is it false economy to share cards between consumer products? Another £25 or so against losing an unrepeatable photo opportunity is probably trivial - yes? It is probably a false economy if you never have to share a single card with two or more devices. If you have two mobile devices that must share data, then you don't have much choice. As a supplementary, I recently bought a USB card reader rather than download pictures using the camera's (slower) USB umbilical interface. Is there a conclusive opinion on the robustness of reconnecting a mini USB cable to a camera rather than removing from, and re-inserting the SD card into the camera? It just strikes me that cables and sockets have better mechanical design than cards and card slots - and that the cable, if damaged, would be far simpler and cheaper to replace. I have tens of cards and several digital cameras, mobile devices, and computers. I have seen no failure with cables and card slots. I insert and remove cards all the time. I do have a few cards that just plainly died. So I've developed a philosophy to store photos and data on multiple cards, not just a single card: http://www.camerahacker.com/Digital/Eggs.shtml Chieh |
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