Memory Cards are More Convenient than Flash Drives
29 Oct 2005 in Treo, Useful Things by GarrickYesterday, my trusty 128MB USB Flash keychain drive gave up the ghost. Dead. Unrecognized by any machine. I originally picked it up a couple years ago to transfer a large number of files too big for email, yet passed back and forth too frequently for the slow mount/unmount of the iPod.
It’s served me well.
After the moment of mourning, I still had this problem of 30MB of files needing moved from that machine to this machine.
For whatever lame reason, the Powerbook isn’t aware of the SD/MMC card in the Treo. So, when I picked up the card, I also picked up a USB Memory Card reader from OfficeMax.
After I tossed the Flash drive, I popped the memory card out of the Treo - into the Reader, plugged the reader into that machine and grabbed the files.
I love when technology works. Oddly, this solution feels more flexible, more secure, and more portable than the keychain drive. I’m sure that’s because around the house, almost every device has a SD/MMC slot (cameras, Palms, Rios) - and only the computers have USB ports.
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