I thought so too, until I had one. The design was excellent, no moving parts associated with electronics, just a hinged plastic flap.
The design made it to the Ducati series high-end cards, but I don't think they sold too well as everybody has a card reader now anyways. -Adam On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 6:59 AM, Luiz Felipe <luiz.fel...@techmit.com.br> wrote: > 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. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
