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Details at a glance
Capacity: 512MB - 2GB
Write speed: 9MB/sec
Read speed: 10MB/sec
We clicked with
Great idea, never fumble for a card reader again, based on top quality memory
Shots in the dark
Not sure how long the hinge will last (though it seems well made), card is more expensive than a regular Ultra II.
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SanDisk information
www.sandisk.com
Price Comparison:
SanDisk Ultra SD II
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The SD Plus card is a very clever product. No wires, no reader - just take the card out of your camera and plug it straight into your computer.
Features
You know the scenario - you take some great shots on your digital camera and you want to get them onto your computer. Maybe you want to email them to friends, to send them to an online lab for printing, to edit them or just back up your precious memories.
In your own home, this should be no problem - you kept the cables that came with your camera (didn't you?) so you can just plug it in and transfer the pictures. Or maybe you have a card reader - pop out the card and drop it in the slot and you're away. But what if you are away from home? You want to show your friends your pictures or you're on holiday and want to upload in a cybercafe or you just forgot, lost or broke your connection cables?
Step forward SanDisk with a clever new product the SD Plus card. In this case the “plus” stands for “flip it in half and it's got a USB plug on”. Yep, take the card out of your camera, fold it in half and plug the back end into a USB socket. No cables, no readers, no fuss.
Performance
It works.
I tried the card in a number of cameras and it works just like an SD card. The card is based on the Ultra II which is SanDisk's “better” product. Regular SanDisk = good, Ultra II = better and Extreme III = best - Extremes are designed for pro use both in terms of write speeds and the abuse they can be expected to put up with. As you'd expect, write speeds are good. The one I tried was a 1GB card which means lots of pictures - between 500 and 600 jpegs on a 6MP compact.
Then I snapped it in half (there's a cunning hinge) and put it in a couple of computers. The PC running XP auto installed the drivers and there the card was. The Mac running OS X didn't even bother with the drivers - put the card in the USB socket and there it is on the desktop. I didn't time transfers to the computers but they seemed at least as good as I would get with a quick card reader.
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Great product - it solves a problem and works well. I checked prices online and a 512MB version costs about £5 more than a normal Ultra II and the 1GB is about £10 more than the normal card. That's fine if, like a lot of people, you are only going to buy one or two cards. Budget card readers start at below £10 and of course the cables that came with your camera were free. If you're going to buy a lot of cards then it would work out cheaper to get regular cards and a reader.
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