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Friday, January 28, 2005
Make a USB drive in a flash
Digital camera owners and others who use flash memory cards tend to work their way up from starter cards with small data storage capacities to ones with larger and larger amounts of memory.
But the smaller cards need not go unused. Inexpensive housings from MediaGear can turn those cards into USB drives for backing up data or ferrying it from one computer to another. (Even the 16-megabyte cards supplied with many cameras hold nearly as much data as a dozen floppy disks.)
Using them is simply a matter of opening the cover, placing the card in a socket and closing the cover again.
Available from the MediaGear Web site (web.mymediagear.com) and from electronics stores and other retailers, the Keychain USB Drives, which are housings for the memory cards, cost $10 each, and come in versions to fit just about all card formats: Secure Digital, MultiMediaCard, Memory Stick, Compact Flash Types I and II and Microdrives, SmartMedia and xD.
Come May, they also will be available with transparent covers that let you see at a glance whether a memory card is in the housing and what its capacity is.
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