04-07-2004, 04:02 AM
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Magi
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 2,186
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Waterproof SD Cards Make a Splash! Or Possibly Not.
Have you ever dropped your SD card in the shower? Left it outside in the rain? Gone swimming with it in your pocket? Well, neither have I, but apparently a Japanese company thinks that the world needs a waterproof SD card. Dottocomu reports that "Adtec is to release a full range of waterproof SD cards (32MB-1GB) on April 20. In addition to adhering to JIS standards when it comes to water resistance and preventing moisture getting inside, they're also good at shrugging off shocks, shakes, and static electricity. Pricing ranges from Y2,500 for the 32MB version up to Y30,000 for the 512MB, with no information available about the 1GB version as yet. For all the cards' toughness, the maker offers one caveat--make sure they're dry before you insert them into anything."
Sage advice indeed. I can sort of see how this might possibly be useful to professional photographers in tropical locales. Do you think this product is all wet, or do you think it'll float? :mrgreen:
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04-07-2004, 05:10 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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Maybe these are to go with those super heavy duty, leave it in the mud, Pocket PCs.
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04-07-2004, 05:30 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 20
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I agree; this will probably be welcomed for rugged PPC users that need their PPC all the time, such as in the Army.
For the average user? Well, its kinda silly to have a waterproof SD card in a non-waterproof PDA, isn't it?
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04-07-2004, 06:29 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 193
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I'd like to note that I've run my CF card through the wash no less than twice and it resulted in no damage either time. So I'm not sure I get this.
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04-07-2004, 06:31 AM
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Mystic
Join Date: Feb 2004
Posts: 1,911
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Originally Posted by Tierran
I'd like to note that I've run my CF card through the wash no less than twice and it resulted in no damage either time. So I'm not sure I get this.
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Yikes! How's you end up doing that?
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04-07-2004, 06:58 AM
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Neophyte
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 9
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I have washed both an SD and and XD card and both came out fine. Definately not a needed product in my opinion unless they aren't much more expensive.
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04-07-2004, 07:04 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 59
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I wash my sd and cf cards regularly to clean virii from my files.
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04-07-2004, 07:45 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 383
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I would like to see a rugged SD card!!
Oh wait - there's Compact Flash already..  ops:
/jizmo
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04-07-2004, 08:17 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 114
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We're using lots of SD cards here in Iraq and Afghanistan in PPCs of all types (R-PDAs from TallaTech and iPaqs). The R-PDAs have a covering so it's not that big of a deal. And, I suppose one could argue that iPaqs themselves aren't waterproof, so who cares? And then of course there are all the digital cameras.
My take on it is this: while we're using a lot of PDAs, I'm not sure you'd call any of them mission critical. It one goes down, it's not like you're gonna die or anything. You might lose some info. You might lose some data. You might lose a backup. So? The fact that the military is using more and more commercial, standard equipment (you would not believe the prevalence of Garmin eTrex GPSs) is a testament to the fact that people are willing to give up on ruggedness and durability for lower price and easy availability.
So, would I buy them for soldiers? If they did actual testing that proved they were waterproof and were not any more than 10% higher in cost, sure. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother. Would I buy them for myself? Maybe. But you go and blow money on a 500MB SD card, and a year down the road what you find yourself using is the cutting edge 2GB card, not that 500 MB waterproof one... the number of low capacity cards sitting in my junk drawer is horrifying!
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04-07-2004, 08:42 AM
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Theorist
Join Date: Apr 2004
Posts: 275
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mahhh, I would buy an explosion proof water proof hit by a car proof anything bad proof sd card for 10% more buttt I don't know, I've not got anything important enough that I couldn't afford losing it for now. So I won't buy this.
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