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I wish more devices had SD slots. Particularly Windows Tablets. There's plenty of room in there, and SD cards are way better than microSD.

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I quite enjoy the fact that my car stereo has one, I use a 32G card to take along the majority of my music collection. Far better solution than Bluetooth from my phone; battery consumption; or cabling direct in my glovebox to iPod or similar.

The only inconvenience I have found is when you forget to watch the model your buying and end up with a slow transfer version. However for the most prat I use them in the place of USB sticks as its more common to find fast ones for good prices

MicroSD is at least something. I'd much rather that Apple tablets were able to use any kind of external storage without converters.

Is that in terms of capacity and/or speed, or do you just prefer the form factor of a full-size SD card?

Except when you tread on them. As I found out yesterday. I had another that got damaged in the post, bent and dead.

When I send them in the mail (which I do rarely but it does happen) I sandwich them between two taped together pieces of thin wood. That means it's no longer a very thin envelope but it increases the chances of safe arrival. They also always go registered.

USB sticks tend to be more robust.

What about the little plastic cases that they come in?

Don't the MicroSD cards come with plastic cases, but not the larger SD cards?

Every SD card I have gotten has arrived in a case. I'm sure there are exceptions, but you can also buy them cheaply (there's a 10-pack for sale as an add-on item for $4.25 at Amazon).

Since realised that I've bought both SD and MicroSD cards with and without cases. A MicroSD got bent in the post, bought as new. And a accidentally put my foot on an SD while shuffling cards.

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