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From: Sam Citron	1/28/2005 3:16:50 AM
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Put Older Flash Memory Cards Back to Work as U.S.B. Drives [NYT] By Ivan Berger 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 U.S.B. 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 the housings, which are called Keychain U.S.B. Drives, 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 housings 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 will also 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. nytimes.com

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