I would love to have this just for the utility of backup. Just think about the idea that you can backup something from your PC and use the same thing on your phone as well. The opportunities are wild
@@whomperwhomperson8679 Well there is better thing already: Flash drives, that connect to micro SD and USB A (two ends), or single USB C. Quite cheap too, i found one for like 12 bucks per 128GB model.
I worked on the firmware of this card back then. It is actually a controller with 2 interfaces being booted into different firmware depending on which side you power it up from. I love this card and use it personally until it died. The only problem is the joint being the weakest link and eventually they will snap, and you end up with a slice of mushroom too short to fit inside a standard SD slot.
The Ducati edition was after the original. In 2006, these were popular in the photography community and can be found in photography magazines of the time. Still, the Ducati edition definitely adds a coolness factor to it!
Okay that's really dope! I guess it's really not enough of an inconvenience to make these standard, but it'd be cool if some companies put out some line of these types!
I believe it's not just all of the above, it's about cost. Not only is a moving part a failure point, it also makes the device cost more to make, and if it costs more to make they have to charge more to make a profit. If it costs more less people are willing to buy them. In most cases now a days, the device the SD card is inside of IS the reader also. So it's basically a niche product for a niche of a niche. Cool AF tho
Im got hundred of songs favourites on my nokia "soap" and "leaf"(looks like)*sorry dont quiet remember their model,with only 2gb.. even better after we used it to keep games in "ngage" and "QD"
@@liu3chan☠️alot of things i use a micro sd cards for my switch since the built in storage is 22 gbs☠️ fortnite update was 19 gb so think about that rq😭
One of the lessons here is that if you see an asking price on Ebay that feels too high, it probably IS too high because the offer would be gone if it was fair.
I have one of those folding SD cards from the late 2000’s. Not the special Ducati ones, they also made a plain vanilla version too. Best SD card ever. I don’t know why they didn’t continue making them.
@@IKER1000sYT and you think a global multimillion dollar company doesn't care about selling you their products just because they sell them cheap? I don't get what you thought you were adding to this besides pointlessness
Thats handy, but on the other side micro sd is more common nowadays. On a micro sd to sd adapter this would be nice, i cant even remember how long i spend searching my sd reader before every use.
I agree, I could bet there are modern sd cards like this one for lower price. Also, the price probably only comes from the fact it was a collaboration product.
You're paying for the historial artifact, not the actual product. Yeah, you can buy a better SD card in every metric for way less money nowadays, but this is a collectors item. It's the same way some post stamps are way more expensive than what you pay for to put something on the post, or like a pokemon card or something, which intrinsic value is like 10 cents or something, but some are sold for 1000s.
Normally 100$ for 4GB is just batshit crazy but in this case since it's a rare limited collectible I'm sure it will be worth a lot more than a 100 bucks in the future. But again still very good as a collective piece
@@danionescu988 I mean yea they won't be of value in terms of currency but ig it's still pretty neat. To be preserved as ancient tech. Imagine showing it to ur grandkids. "You kids wouldn't understand the pain we had to go through to store data and share stuff using this small chip" I mean I still have my windows XP back in my village. Heard they stopped making it so I consider it a very rare thrash. Note it may be thrash and garbage but still very rare
@@danionescu988did you not read his comment? it's a collectable, and collectables are timeless so people will still want it even though they know it's useless.
I have like 12 sd card adapters that have just come free with stuff over the years. Finding an adapter should be relatively easy for most people. The reason this didn't take off is adding a usb connector added more logic and complexity to the chip design, and sd cards were generally supposed to be relatively cheap cards. It didn't really make sense for that market. It was [and likely still is] cheaper to include an adapter than a built in usb. Granted, at this point it isn't *that* much cheaper, being that these are dirt cheap to produce nowadays, but these usb sd cards never took off so there was never really a logistical reason to design new ones when they could just keep including an even more cheap adapter.
I love how the creator captured all his emotions and when putting together the video must had to sift through so much. Like the part when he gets a notification, he recorded himself everyday so that he can get that 1 sec clip. Amazing.
@@isaackvasager9957well the camera storage market has pretty much always been a racket. Camera storage being insanely expensive per GB for not even half the performance of a proper modern drive. Logic has nothing to do with it. However, there are cameras that accept usb, though usb based *storage* on a camera is still not really a thing.
This would have been amazing if it would have become the standard, much like how every micro SDCard comes with an adapter even though most of us don't use them!
Same here, and the vanilla ones are, contrary to Ducati, definitely NOT rare. He should have spent a minute longer on research than on video editing and could have saved 80 bucks 😊
I have one of these, 4gb, but it is black. Been on the lookout for one with larger memory with no luck. Most handy card ever. Def. should be standard. This is the first time ive seen a similar card.
You sure it's 32GB? Typical 2002 card a good one was 16-32MB. You can't stack 500 dies in an SD card, where would capacity like that even come from? You can't borrow semiconductor from 10 years later either. Microdrive 2GB CF Type II was available from IBM, that was a lot for photography, but it was a spinning little hard disk. My harddisk in PC was Maxtor DM80, 80GB.
@@SianaGearz do you have an off platform handle of some sort? ill send you some images, its not a functional prototype so they could slap whatever they wanted on it but its still really quite cool
Were you specifically looking for this exact card, or just one with this technology? I found a SanDisc Ultra II 1 gb with built-in USB on eBay for $24.95. 😅
@@cricketgoldYT Yeah but my question is if he's just getting it for the technology itself, and how cool it is, or if he wanted this specific collaboration version. Either way he's definitely not going to be using it for anything meaningful, and was just for fun. In that case I would've went for the cheaper one just to try it out. I'm actually tempted to get it myself. Lol
@@cricketgoldYT That's not how storage density scaling works, it's not linear. Each technology has different scaling costs depending on rarity and complexity.
Damn! I remember back in the day those were kind of expensive but perfectly in the realm of reason and readily available at the local computer store. I should have bought a few dozen then 😮
I have a microSD to USB-A Adapter, where the SD card goes into a little slot. It's smaller than a normal USB, and it's been so useful for sharing files with other people who don't have SD readers in their laptops!
@@ambhaiji A good lesson to learn in life is something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a 4gb memory card for that rare or not.
I have an Action Replay Wii which is a micro SD to SD adapter that also has USB, just like this. The build quality is shit but the concept is amazing. Since it has a microSD slot, I can also upgrade it to a faster or bigger SD card. Can't upgrade the USB speed though.
@@SilverSpoon_ There is something called "data retention time". That's its lifespan. It's ~10 years with general use. Of course it depends on the quality of the drive and how long it gets used, but after that time some problems may occur. Even the firmware is stored in flash memory. The chip holds memory as charges that dissipate over time. If the bits don't refresh and something gets corrupted, you may notice that the computer can no longer access the drive.
@@windestruct All depends of the SSD's technology. In a good couple of decades, I never had any of these issues even with a ~2002 16Mb Memory Stick and similar with USBs, phones. or various systems that use flash ROMs from the 1990's. It occurs when data are overwritten and secotrs tend to wear and being unusable, then enjoy your daily fsck, but on the expiring SSD, so it's not a thing. Sure there can be more dense SSDs that now will be subject to data loss, and this is why I urge the users to invest in a back up, external hard drive to frequently create a backup of their data. especially the OS/system and programs that should remain on the SSD, that's the idea. But otherwise, I don't think so. And I upgraded an old, one of the furst Asus EEEPC for someone who loved this laptop, it was crippled with XP pro on a SSD, yet still booting and all, did a backup, installed a lightweight Debian32bit. And it's go! It's impossible to find SSD upgrades compatible for these but the guy wants to use it to write, and transfer things via USB.
that would be useful for photographers (even tho theres wireless but wireless is also slower and miight compromise some quality) make the storage higher tho
Though the SD card is old and holds 4gbs worth of data The fact it can be put into USB ports is a priceless item and extremely sought after for photographers
I had one of these in a different brand. Very useful. But these days if I want transportable storage I use a usb drive. The one I have is 1TB and is usb on one end and usb C on the other.
The usb port is way ahead of its time 😮 skull candies use these either sided usb on their cables and these reversible usb connectors are a couple or years old now in the market.
If you know any shops/secondhand retailers who sell SD cards, it's always worth taking a look in their boxes of what they've got. Very, very occasionally you'll come across something like this, and because their sales model doesn't adapt for oddities like this they'll price it up the same as any other SD card! 😁 That said; I don't know what speed these worked at, but I get the impression modern SD card readers will be a quicker way to offload photos than the SD cards own USB port. The latter was probably meant so you could take photos with friends/family and copy them onto their computer that day _without_ needing a reader (Often an expensive accessory back then) or having to wait for you to get home and then e-mail the photos back to them the next day. 😇
They need this to be a standard 😭
I 100% agree... but try putting one on a micro sd card
@@aussiepancake4287 it might be possible by putting gold contacts on the thicker side of the card. Looks like the perfect size for a usb
@BurningFuses but how would you get it out once it's in?
@@aussiepancake4287already been done!
@@aussiepancake4287 It doesn't look very durable, remember that more moving parts more points of failure.
In my opinion SD cards like this should be a standard nowadays!
That'll be a bit harder with USB C, but I totally support it
A small problem is that it would limit storage
@@nothcialI mean, we've got 2tb micro sd cards, I don't think a storage limit is too big of a worry.
Moving parts on something that small? No thanks!
@@hamzasultan96 I'm not talking about Micro SD
Cards aside that Ducati pen drive looks firee🔥
The Wii Action Replay had an Micro SD card adapter similar to this, one side for full size and one for usb. I always thought it was so neat.
Bro got heartbroken when he experienced the 800kbps speed of usb 1
lmao yes XDDD
But then again, when it's 4Gb, you don't need a lot of speed to transfer a bunch of MB.
Well that way when you're getting files off of it, it _FEELS_ like a lot of data! :D
USB 1 can do 1.5-12mbps depending on chipset.
@@corataylor2205you're not thinking of usb 1. Are you sure you're not thinking about firewire or usb 2?
No. For clarification i meant usb1 does *up to* 1.5mbps and usb1.1 does 12mbps.@@lexecomplexe4083
That's actually pretty clever. Making these things nowadays with 256GB would be a best seller product for photographers
I would love to have this just for the utility of backup. Just think about the idea that you can backup something from your PC and use the same thing on your phone as well. The opportunities are wild
@@whomperwhomperson8679 Well there is better thing already: Flash drives, that connect to micro SD and USB A (two ends), or single USB C. Quite cheap too, i found one for like 12 bucks per 128GB model.
@@whomperwhomperson8679 There are multiple options already like cloud backup, airdrops, type c pendrives, otg for mobile, etc
@@whomperwhomperson8679 you can do that, you know? You just need an adapter...
@@whomperwhomperson8679or plug in your phone and make a backup on the phone. It's really not that much of a deal
I worked on the firmware of this card back then. It is actually a controller with 2 interfaces being booted into different firmware depending on which side you power it up from. I love this card and use it personally until it died. The only problem is the joint being the weakest link and eventually they will snap, and you end up with a slice of mushroom too short to fit inside a standard SD slot.
"Lemme get out my SD-Stick real quick"
“This is how I got this rare SD card!😱🤯”
“I bought it”
Are you trying to be funny?
was he supposed to steal it or something?
It's not about the end it's about the journey
what journey? he bought it and thats it, its not like he did anything
@@vengeance5020no, not _trying_ to be funny. He *_was_* funny
The Ducati edition was after the original. In 2006, these were popular in the photography community and can be found in photography magazines of the time. Still, the Ducati edition definitely adds a coolness factor to it!
Yeah my mom is a photographer and she gave me hers witch is a 512mp version, not Ducati edition tho
I think the combo if the two features together is what makes it more interesting and rare though
Yeah I had a couple of these I bet they’re somewhere in one of my drawers. Now I’m gonna look throw em up on eBay. 😂
I was thinking these would be great for photographers, then read this lol.
This is awesome and we need more like this. My only problem is how you have to unfold it like that. It looks like it’ll break after repeated use
One of those usb style cards wrecked one of the USB ports on a 3 day old PS3....... I thought that memory was long gone, but here we are.
Okay that's really dope! I guess it's really not enough of an inconvenience to make these standard, but it'd be cool if some companies put out some line of these types!
It's not about convenience, it's about selling adapters.
@@dad6451umm no actually adding a moving part is just stupid
@@datcheesecakeboi6745 both
I believe it's not just all of the above, it's about cost. Not only is a moving part a failure point, it also makes the device cost more to make, and if it costs more to make they have to charge more to make a profit. If it costs more less people are willing to buy them. In most cases now a days, the device the SD card is inside of IS the reader also. So it's basically a niche product for a niche of a niche. Cool AF tho
Yeah, this should be normal
People saying that 4gb is nothing are definitely too young to understand, on a 2007s SD card that's huge.
2 gb is like the equivalent to 256gb back then, imagine what 16 would be
Arduino users: "Pathetic"
Im got hundred of songs favourites on my nokia "soap" and "leaf"(looks like)*sorry dont quiet remember their model,with only 2gb.. even better after we used it to keep games in "ngage" and "QD"
Yeah, get on with the times, its now 2024.
@@Reflec999 That's still a lot tho
Every company should be doing this
Such an exciting find! I was part of the team at SanDisk when this product was launched way back when! Congratulations on your win!
I've had one of these for about 12 years, now. Not this exact one, but with the built in USB port. One of the most useful items I've ever owned.
What is a SD card used for nowadays anyway?
@@liu3chan☠️alot of things i use a micro sd cards for my switch since the built in storage is 22 gbs☠️ fortnite update was 19 gb so think about that rq😭
Yeah I had a few of these back in the day. I don’t know why they didn’t make them all like this
I have one somewhere myself. it was mostly if not all. black. it may still be in one of my old palms.
I have two of these in my junk drawer, all black and 512mb.
"saw something I liked on eBay, I bid on it and won."
thanks you saved me alot of time mate!
"...and made a youtube short so I can recoup the costs"
Fr, he still paid $100 for a useless 4Gb sdcard. Can get a 1tb one for that price.
@@Agretyou can even 3D print one at one and wire one if you know how to solder
One of the lessons here is that if you see an asking price on Ebay that feels too high, it probably IS too high because the offer would be gone if it was fair.
How is this not something anyone has heard about?! This is such an amazing and innovative concept
I have one of those folding SD cards from the late 2000’s. Not the special Ducati ones, they also made a plain vanilla version too. Best SD card ever. I don’t know why they didn’t continue making them.
cause then they couldnt sell you the adapters
They couldnt sell flashdisk
@@mrroboshadow the adapter is literal cents
@@IKER1000sYT and you think a global multimillion dollar company doesn't care about selling you their products just because they sell them cheap?
I don't get what you thought you were adding to this besides pointlessness
Honestly they should make these again with more memory because like... that's a really good idea!
Storage
I find them sometimes on temu. Not that brand, cheap knockoffs, but they probably work for about 8gb at slow speeds.
Theyre seriously worth that. I have two of each. Ones I used and ones still in boxes
Thats handy, but on the other side micro sd is more common nowadays. On a micro sd to sd adapter this would be nice, i cant even remember how long i spend searching my sd reader before every use.
Paying 100 for a 4gig sd is wild 😂
I agree, I could bet there are modern sd cards like this one for lower price. Also, the price probably only comes from the fact it was a collaboration product.
You're paying for the historial artifact, not the actual product. Yeah, you can buy a better SD card in every metric for way less money nowadays, but this is a collectors item. It's the same way some post stamps are way more expensive than what you pay for to put something on the post, or like a pokemon card or something, which intrinsic value is like 10 cents or something, but some are sold for 1000s.
making a CZcams short about it and receiving 750k likes is even more wild. I don't think money is an issue 😅
@@jaspermooren5883historical artifact my ass 😂 who deemed it an artifact? You? Get the hell outta here with that
@@jaspermooren5883they do not sell for 1000s what are you talking about I just found nothing but these online going for £200
Normally 100$ for 4GB is just batshit crazy but in this case since it's a rare limited collectible I'm sure it will be worth a lot more than a 100 bucks in the future. But again still very good as a collective piece
Nobody will care about sd cards in 10 years...
@@danionescu988 I mean yea they won't be of value in terms of currency but ig it's still pretty neat. To be preserved as ancient tech. Imagine showing it to ur grandkids.
"You kids wouldn't understand the pain we had to go through to store data and share stuff using this small chip"
I mean I still have my windows XP back in my village. Heard they stopped making it so I consider it a very rare thrash. Note it may be thrash and garbage but still very rare
@@danionescu988same goes for you 😊
@danionescu988 Why not?
@@danionescu988did you not read his comment? it's a collectable, and collectables are timeless so people will still want it even though they know it's useless.
Cheers! Never seen any of your videos, first time and it looks like youve a reason to celebrate!
A real story teller, you just made a verynice video about a SD card !
+ 1 like!!!!👍
Bro these need to come back! Imagine the convenience of not needing a reader!!
people might think one can just use an USB stick, but alot of cameras still use SD cards, but then again, if you're an enthusiast just buy a reader 😂
Im lucky my pc has a built in multicard reader
I have like 12 sd card adapters that have just come free with stuff over the years. Finding an adapter should be relatively easy for most people. The reason this didn't take off is adding a usb connector added more logic and complexity to the chip design, and sd cards were generally supposed to be relatively cheap cards. It didn't really make sense for that market. It was [and likely still is] cheaper to include an adapter than a built in usb. Granted, at this point it isn't *that* much cheaper, being that these are dirt cheap to produce nowadays, but these usb sd cards never took off so there was never really a logistical reason to design new ones when they could just keep including an even more cheap adapter.
until those tiny hinges break off while you're trying to pop out the SD card
@@cf8979 Pretty cheap to add right where the no longer used floppy goes.
I love how the creator captured all his emotions and when putting together the video must had to sift through so much. Like the part when he gets a notification, he recorded himself everyday so that he can get that 1 sec clip. Amazing.
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That is a great feature that they need to bring back
For a $100...bro just called me poor in every sense of the Word...😂
Bro grew so quickly, he only had 60k subscribers when I subscribed to him, that's crasy
Why isn't this kind of SD card more popular I swear it would make file transferring from my camera so much easier
riight!! same
Laptops have been coming with built-in SD readers for over a decade! They're held internally so less likely to snap off like a USB can too.
Bad durability and SD adapters are sort of common enough that you might step on one if you sneeze.
@@bigpjohnsonactually they'll been removing sd card readers on laptops to save money because you can buy adapters
@@isaackvasager9957well the camera storage market has pretty much always been a racket. Camera storage being insanely expensive per GB for not even half the performance of a proper modern drive. Logic has nothing to do with it. However, there are cameras that accept usb, though usb based *storage* on a camera is still not really a thing.
I've seen similar cards before. They were fairly handy, especially for devices like the DSi and Nintendo Wii.
I’ve had one of these. Very useful, and convenient. Used it all the time. Unfortunately stopped working, probably due to bending.
This would have been amazing if it would have become the standard, much like how every micro SDCard comes with an adapter even though most of us don't use them!
I have dozens of these cards with the built in USB adapter, but not the Ducati version. Am I sitting on a gold mine? 😅
Same here, and the vanilla ones are, contrary to Ducati, definitely NOT rare.
He should have spent a minute longer on research than on video editing and could have saved 80 bucks 😊
It's weird seeing 2007 in SD: felt like the 90s!
That 1048 is a 916!
I have one of these, 4gb, but it is black.
Been on the lookout for one with larger memory with no luck.
Most handy card ever. Def. should be standard.
This is the first time ive seen a similar card.
I have one of these along with a prototype 32gb compact flash card from 2002 which 32gb in 2002 was crazy a friend used to work at SanDisk
You sure it's 32GB? Typical 2002 card a good one was 16-32MB. You can't stack 500 dies in an SD card, where would capacity like that even come from? You can't borrow semiconductor from 10 years later either. Microdrive 2GB CF Type II was available from IBM, that was a lot for photography, but it was a spinning little hard disk. My harddisk in PC was Maxtor DM80, 80GB.
@@SianaGearz do you have an off platform handle of some sort? ill send you some images, its not a functional prototype so they could slap whatever they wanted on it but its still really quite cool
@@boomboxing4402 same name on Twitter and Google mail.
Were you specifically looking for this exact card, or just one with this technology? I found a SanDisc Ultra II 1 gb with built-in USB on eBay for $24.95. 😅
he got 4 GB which means it should be 4x more money 24.95 x 4 = 99.8 USD = 150 AUS, which is more than what he paid for
@@cricketgoldYT Yeah but my question is if he's just getting it for the technology itself, and how cool it is, or if he wanted this specific collaboration version. Either way he's definitely not going to be using it for anything meaningful, and was just for fun. In that case I would've went for the cheaper one just to try it out. I'm actually tempted to get it myself. Lol
@@cricketgoldYT That's not how storage density scaling works, it's not linear. Each technology has different scaling costs depending on rarity and complexity.
Damn! I remember back in the day those were kind of expensive but perfectly in the realm of reason and readily available at the local computer store. I should have bought a few dozen then 😮
I have a microSD to USB-A Adapter, where the SD card goes into a little slot. It's smaller than a normal USB, and it's been so useful for sharing files with other people who don't have SD readers in their laptops!
proceeds to call USB flash drives and CompactFlash cards "SD cards"
They're all "SD" cards if they're made by SanDisk.
@@nobleliesIsn't SD Secure Digital? Sandisk is just a brand, but he was clearly showing a compact flash and a usb flash drive when he said that.
100 dollars !! Boy you made some rough decisions
Buying something that is worth $500-600 for $100 is a rough decision?
@ambhaiji the price was set too high. Only few would pay even $100.
One was sold for 12 Dollar at eBay UK
@@ambhaijii mean it’s still a 4gb sd card
$100 is crazy regardless 😭
@@ambhaiji
A good lesson to learn in life is something is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Nobody in their right mind is going to buy a 4gb memory card for that rare or not.
I have an Action Replay Wii which is a micro SD to SD adapter that also has USB, just like this. The build quality is shit but the concept is amazing. Since it has a microSD slot, I can also upgrade it to a faster or bigger SD card. Can't upgrade the USB speed though.
I have one, it's an Ultra II 1GB, I loved it when the size was usable!
I can’t even get my Eye-Fi SD card to work
Hahaha no surprise there
@@profosist are they notorious for it?
I have one like this, it has the usb and everything but the micro usb is removable, so I just took out the 4gb and put in a 128gb from another card 🤫
This would actually be really useful for the Wii
Bro waited for a notification?
I sit by my computer an hour before and watch how it’s doing 😂
Imagine if the chip inside of it expired due to a long time being powered off
Fortunately that's not a thing haha
That’s now how they work 🤦♂️
i want to understand the logic of people posting this kind of content.
@@SilverSpoon_ There is something called "data retention time". That's its lifespan. It's ~10 years with general use. Of course it depends on the quality of the drive and how long it gets used, but after that time some problems may occur. Even the firmware is stored in flash memory. The chip holds memory as charges that dissipate over time. If the bits don't refresh and something gets corrupted, you may notice that the computer can no longer access the drive.
@@windestruct All depends of the SSD's technology. In a good couple of decades, I never had any of these issues even with a ~2002 16Mb Memory Stick and similar with USBs, phones. or various systems that use flash ROMs from the 1990's. It occurs when data are overwritten and secotrs tend to wear and being unusable, then enjoy your daily fsck, but on the expiring SSD, so it's not a thing. Sure there can be more dense SSDs that now will be subject to data loss, and this is why I urge the users to invest in a back up, external hard drive to frequently create a backup of their data. especially the OS/system and programs that should remain on the SSD, that's the idea.
But otherwise, I don't think so. And I upgraded an old, one of the furst Asus EEEPC for someone who loved this laptop, it was crippled with XP pro on a SSD, yet still booting and all, did a backup, installed a lightweight Debian32bit. And it's go! It's impossible to find SSD upgrades compatible for these but the guy wants to use it to write, and transfer things via USB.
Save a rick roll video on it and sell it back on auction
a micro SD reader in this form factor would be totally worth it!
An SD Card that you need to plug into a USB port.
**seems legit**
that would be useful for photographers (even tho theres wireless but wireless is also slower and miight compromise some quality) make the storage higher tho
How you wait nervously for an SD card 💀 bro is nervous for it
Man that's so awesome 😁 and the best part the usb part is shaped just like a gas pump
That’s cool they should make them all like this
When you want something from the bottom of your heart,
Then the whole world will try to give it you !
- Shah Rukh Khan
I have an SD card that pops out of the end of a USB drive. It’s a tiny little keychain thing. It’s badass.
I had a 16Gb one about 10 years ago. It was black and it cost around $20. Made in Korea. It worked for two years.
If SD cards were like this I would actually use them.
Why more companies don't do this type of cards, it's so good feature
I love the part where he tells us his experience after using it.
SD Cards The 3 1/4 “ disks from time ago. Having a USB feature: PRICELESS
Neat af, wish there were more like those
They need to bring this back..😮
i have one of these sitting on my desk at work lol, only kept it bc i thought it was neat ahaha
I mean back then with 700 MB CDs, 4,7 GB DVDs this 4 GB was real formidable
Great idea but easy to break. They will have a lot of recalls if they mass produce it.
Wow, now you can put a movie on it. 😂😂😂😂😂
The design was ahead of its time 😮
Though the SD card is old and holds 4gbs worth of data
The fact it can be put into USB ports is a priceless item and extremely sought after for photographers
People who can never find the damn adapter: "Why wasn't this standard?"
Oh man I had 4 of these and broke all of them playing/fidgeting with them. They were so addicting to snap back and forth. Should have saved them.
I wish these folding SD cards with built-in USB adapters were more common, they would make transferring files so much easier!
I had a few of these. These would get stuck in my camera where the hinge is. But they were really cool
God theese would be so handy for things like console modding
The craziest thing about this video is that dude is wearing his shoes in the house. The brand new carpet!
For regular users…this is not bad…but definitely not for professional photographers and videographers…it’s not durable and easier to get corrupted
What we need is a thumb drive that you can insert a microSD card into, just like putting a new card in your phone! :)
I think, We just need C type SD cards. Which can be mounted to camera as well as PC
I had one of these in a different brand. Very useful.
But these days if I want transportable storage I use a usb drive. The one I have is 1TB and is usb on one end and usb C on the other.
ive got a 512mb one of these.... used to use it a lot. wish they still made them
I wish they would make all of cards like that omg
The usb port is way ahead of its time 😮 skull candies use these either sided usb on their cables and these reversible usb connectors are a couple or years old now in the market.
With microsd cards getting as big as 1-2 terabytes now, i think its viable to have these back in 256-512GB sizes with reasonable prices
I still remember, back in the days, even 8 GB of Memory Card was a Huge thing for me. And now 128 GB of Internal Memory doesn't cut it sometimes
Remember when 4gb used to be able to store your homework for the whole highschool life and a heck ton of gba files? Shit i’m old.
"And here's how I got my hands on it:" He bought it.
An sd adapter that accepted microsd AND had the usb dongle built in, that would be some true utility.
They literally exist, I have a couple in my drawer.
omg i NEED it. like, i can't even explain how much i need this 😭😭😭
Customers probably end up buying a new SD every 3 months
If you know any shops/secondhand retailers who sell SD cards, it's always worth taking a look in their boxes of what they've got. Very, very occasionally you'll come across something like this, and because their sales model doesn't adapt for oddities like this they'll price it up the same as any other SD card! 😁
That said; I don't know what speed these worked at, but I get the impression modern SD card readers will be a quicker way to offload photos than the SD cards own USB port. The latter was probably meant so you could take photos with friends/family and copy them onto their computer that day _without_ needing a reader (Often an expensive accessory back then) or having to wait for you to get home and then e-mail the photos back to them the next day. 😇
This is the exact reason i keep weird peripherals.
These still exist. I had a few sd cards where the small chip could be taken out. Not foldable, but still the same.
"Just like modern SD cards"...Modern computers, especially notebooks, have SD card readers built-in, not "adapters".
Bud placed a 1,000 dollar bid just for the video what a legend