[Leica] Cards to transfer information

[mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner)]

> Mark asks:
> "I have a question. As I now have a slot on the left of my laptop for sd
> 
> disks and  its more convenient than logic would indicate.
> 
> 
> Can I use a card like a flash drive? Do people do that?
> 
> It seems cheaper, smaller and more convenient then those plug in things for
> 
> transferring information of the digital sort not just pix and movies."
> 
> 
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> 
> Sure you can. As you told me, a 2 GB card costs about the same as a package
> of cigarettes. As a non-smoker I wouldn't know what a pack of cigarettes
> cost but my smoking friends tell me it costs a lot. But far more convenient
> are those little thumb drives that you plug into the USB ports. Your 
> MacBook
> has two USB ports. The thumb drives cost even less than SD cards. More
> important, they fit just about every computer made in the last 10 years,
> even those without SD slots. And that, in fact, may be the answer to my
> question about computer hard drives. Three or four 16 GB thumb drives,
> costing about $20 each, will give me all the back up storage capacity I
> need.
> 
> Larry Z
> 


Larry if you read my fine print the ciggies and the 2 gig sd cards cost 7
bucks. I think that's cheaper than the thumb drives I'd like to articulate.

Mark William Rabiner

Ok I checked and a thumb drive is a flash drive.
And the cheapest one at B&H cost $9.95 and is 4 gigs
So they do cost more than an SD card as one would imagine.
And they're about 20 x bigger.

But if they made one which looked like a Woody Woodpecker Pez dispenser I'd
think about it.