Like many I use SD flashcards in my digicams.
Normally to be on the safe side I like to carry a spare SD card - that is despite using a SD card of high enough capacity that I would not run out of space - a spare/backup is a good thing.
Occassionally I also want to have a USB flashdrive/thumb-drive.
That's when I came up with the idea of combining the two things.
Get a compact USB 2.0 SD card reader and carry the spare SD card in it and use as a thumb drive.
the spare 2Gb SD card I carry in the USB reader is actually quite a fast one at a claimed 150x (150x 0.15Mb/s = 22.5Mb/s) - and the combination in the SDHC class 6 USB 2.0 reader is almost twice as fast as the Kingston 1Gb DataTraveler (which is pretty fast to begin with)
Now flashcard readers used to be relatively expensive...
but recently I found some USB 2.0 SDHC (class 6 - the fastest class) readers at very low prices.
Hi speed SDHC Class 6 memory usb reader at an eBay buyItNow price of $1.98 with free shipping -
even better is to bid on Hi-Speed SDHC Class 6 USB 2. Card Reader bid starts at $0.10 with free shipping - I got two at $0.81 and $1.01...... that might be cheaper than the typical plastic carrying cases for a SD card!
Normally to be on the safe side I like to carry a spare SD card - that is despite using a SD card of high enough capacity that I would not run out of space - a spare/backup is a good thing.
Occassionally I also want to have a USB flashdrive/thumb-drive.
That's when I came up with the idea of combining the two things.
Get a compact USB 2.0 SD card reader and carry the spare SD card in it and use as a thumb drive.
the spare 2Gb SD card I carry in the USB reader is actually quite a fast one at a claimed 150x (150x 0.15Mb/s = 22.5Mb/s) - and the combination in the SDHC class 6 USB 2.0 reader is almost twice as fast as the Kingston 1Gb DataTraveler (which is pretty fast to begin with)
Now flashcard readers used to be relatively expensive...
but recently I found some USB 2.0 SDHC (class 6 - the fastest class) readers at very low prices.
Hi speed SDHC Class 6 memory usb reader at an eBay buyItNow price of $1.98 with free shipping -
even better is to bid on Hi-Speed SDHC Class 6 USB 2. Card Reader bid starts at $0.10 with free shipping - I got two at $0.81 and $1.01...... that might be cheaper than the typical plastic carrying cases for a SD card!