Charles, with no hands-on experience on that card, I get the feeling that any design desapppearing so completely from sight was a failure - from technical or sales point of view. If I understand correctly, in order to fit into a sd format the fold would be rather sharp, and any constant movement would eventually cause it to fail. Even replacing the flat cable with golden contacts, the constant movement would cause problems at some point.
Remember, I don't use those cards - but every time I see cable failure in notebooks it's linked to that combination - a sharp fold moved (usually less than 180 degrees) over and over and snap. Bought a cheapo SDHC adapter, always around with 2Gb SDHC. Since that combo (SDcard+reader) behaves as any ordinary pendrive, mine is also an emergency pc operating system (Linux distribution called Parted Magic, under 60mb). Mind you, I'm still trying this - little over 6 months - so I can't say I'm safe. As my digital use is far from intensive, I find that 2gb minus 60mb is still adequate space for a backup card. Luiz Felipe luiz.felipe at techmit.com.br ps: no, I WOULD NOT try this Linux stunt if my card would be used professionally - every time I use this card to WORK with digital I format the card in the camera so nothing would possibly damage the photos, and the moment that becomes frequent there will be a lot of cards around, and only the last one will have this option. ;-) Sun, 28 Dec 2008 21:06:52 -0600, Charles Robinson <charl...@visi.com> escreveu: > I'm a big fan of my Sandisk "SD plus USB" cards which fold open so you > can plug them right into a USB port. I have a 1-gig and 2-gig card, > and I've been looking around to find where I could get another 2, 4, > or 8 gig version of this card. > > Everywhere I look, people are out of stock. Even on the Sandisk > website, it's difficult to even find a REFERENCE to these cards. > > I can't imagine them being discontinued... but I'm at a loss for why I > used to be able to find them anywhere and now NOwhere. My only hope > is that they're just so damned popular that Sandisk is having > difficulty keeping up with demand. > > Does anyone have any concrete ideas? > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
