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> Nowadays, SD cards come in three physical sizes. Wtf. I had no idea there was a 'mini' size between standard and micro. Never seen them in the wild.
by whycome 2y ago
> Nowadays, SD cards come in three physical sizes.
Wtf. I had no idea there was a 'mini' size between standard and micro. Never seen them in the wild.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoIt was more common like 15-20 years ago when some cellphones required one for internal storage
- gnicholas 2y agoKind of like mini-USB, which was briefly popular but quickly supplanted by micro-USB. I think my only surviving mini-USB device is a bike light battery.
- blahedo 2y agoMy Happy Hacking Keyboard—which I bought comparatively recently, maybe 2017 or so—uses a mini-USB connector! Really solid piece of hardware, and I guess they just didn't see a need to update a design that worked.
- kjkjadksj 2y agoI much prefer mini usb over microusb, what a crap connector that one is. You look at it wrong you've bent the male end and hollowed out the connector.
- tracker1 2y agoI have a 3tb external drive that used mini... I'd need to find, or buy a new cable if/when I ever try to use it again.
- whycome 2y agoMini usb is actually more physically robust than the thinner microusb. I've never had a mini bend, but many micros. And it was much easier to get it right on first insert.
- ssl-3 2y agoThere was a time when I carried some adapters with me so my laptop could read different card formats in the field. My favorite was the was the stack I'd use for MicroSD cards: MicroSD to Mini SD > MiniSD to regular SD > SD to Compact Flash > CompactFlash to PCMCIA/CardBus This stack of widgets (5, including the card itself) worked fine -- it wasn't fast, but fast wasn't a goal. They all nested together in a fairly durable form that was the size of one Type I PCMCIA device. No wires.