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View Poll Results: Does lack of SD card support effect you're buying of the Nexus 7? | |||
Yes, I'm not buying because of this. | 101 | 41.91% | |
No, not a problem at all. | 61 | 25.31% | |
I'm buying the 16GB because of this. | 34 | 14.11% | |
I'm not in the market for a tablet, but I like to vote. | 45 | 18.67% | |
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07-14-2012, 08:10 AM | #301 | |
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Full size sd cards (or micros kept in in an adapter) as are typically used in dslrs ARE designed for more frequent swapping. |
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I believe some cameras use micro-SD; otherwise the existence of class 10 micro-SDs is pretty pointless, as their optimized write speeds are neither desirable nor achievable in most devices other than high-megapixel digital cameras.
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It really is not a matter if the card is designed for swapping or not, since the interface is identical to full size SD cards which are specifically designed for hot swapping. That means that a micro SD can be hot swapped as well. There are cell phones, cameras, and various tablet devices that use and are designed for hot swappable micro SD cards. There is NO technical reason that a micro SD card cannot be swapped and moved between multiple devices. |
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No one's talking about "can" and "cannot," just whether many people find swapping worthwhile and whether it's a significant selling point for having a slot in a tablet. The slots are marketed as a means of expanding permanent storage up to the maximum card size (16/32/64GB), which I think appeals to a lot more people than carrying around 400GB of media on 6 different cards (and probably a color-coded spreadsheet tracking what's on which card). Either way, I'm not going to get anywhere near carrying "All of it!" I'll have to winnow and manage and make decisions with energy that I could be devoting to a creative and/or profitable project, and/or jabbering on forums or playing competitive games online
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07-14-2012, 06:09 PM | #308 | |
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I have more cards than I need. The only management that I need to do on a daily basis is the 2 seconds to pop in the correct card. I haven't had to juggle or delete a single thing from the device this year. |
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I was simply referring to comments like this that appear on much MicroSD literature:
"Due to the ultra small size of the product, it is not intended to be handled or removed on a frequent basis." You can Google that, and you'll see it's like a stock phrase. It's not that it's not electrically designed for it, or that some devices don't have nice pop-out side slots, but pry those little suckers in and out of slot wedged next to a SIM card under a battery often enough and something bad happening is not far fetched. |
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I'm not saying don't swap cards, I'm saying if you mess with the little beggars taking them in and out enough. don't be surprised if they fail more often than a full size SD card or USB key. And by the way, The McDonalds coffee thing is the OPPOSITE of what you are suggesting this is. The coffee is hot, and the are stating the obvious. In this case you seem to be suggesting the cards do not have any concern over frequent handling and yet they are saying so anyway. |
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Well, after all this discussion about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, maybe it's time for an on topic post?
The lack of an SD port is always a deal breaker for me, be it micro or macro. Since I do not consider myself an inept klutz, I do not care if the port is micro SD or full size SD. In fact, I only buy micro SD cards now since they can be adapted to the full size when necessary in older devices. In most cases I do just use them for storage expansion, but for a few devices I do use several of them depending on what I want. |
07-15-2012, 02:08 AM | #314 |
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I'm not sure if this has been brought up yet, but there is another important reason for an SD card: getting your data off of the device when it inevitably fails. Data saved to onboard memory cannot be retrieved. Data on an SD card can be retrieved. Of course, you can use network backups to get around that. But network backups won't be as up to date as the actual saved data for most of us.
As for durability: I suspect that the uSD card slot is more prone to failure than an SD card slot, while the cards are just as durable. (Smaller mechanisms for ejecting. Smaller contacts holding the slot to the board -- and they are more likely to be surface mount only without through-hole posts.) |
07-15-2012, 07:43 AM | #315 | |
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So glad my Kobo Touch has a microSD slot - so nice to not have to redownload my books every time I have to factory reset (haven't had to do it for several months now, and only once since I got a microSD, but 3-4 times before that. I also sideload my Kobo-bought books through calibre - thanks, Alf! :P - so nothing is on the internal storage other than system files. |
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