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Retired
One of our local stores have 4GB Thumb drives and 4GB SDHC cards for $12.00 each. They are both made by HP. Is there any advantage of one over the other?
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Grand Master Grinch
A thumbdrive is more portable in that you don't need a card reader to use it. Though I have two 4GB micro SDHC cards that came with a thumbdrive like card reader that effectually made them thumbdrives with the added bonus of being able to swap out the card.
As far as speed goes I have never done any benchmarks between the two nor have read about any. Even then it would depend on the particular model of each type.
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Retired
That's a good point that I didn't think of. My new computer has a card reader and my older one does not. I think I'll stick with the thumb drive.Originally Posted by jlreich
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No One Stands So Tall As When They Stoop To Help A Child.
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Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
~James Baldwin~
_________________________________________________
Life is more accurately measured by the lives you touch than by the things you acquire.
~Author unknown~
Dumpster Diver Extraordinaire
I have no preference in either type as I have readers that I needed for my handheld GPS.
But things I look for on both is whether or not they have a manual switch to make them read only. Considering I repair friend`s PCs now and then, I load them with diagnostic and repairs softwares then write protect them prior to exposing them to computers that have taken `ill`.
Sorta like surgical gloves for software...
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