{"id":3992,"date":"2013-01-30T00:01:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3992"},"modified":"2013-01-26T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:56:42","slug":"removable-media-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=3992","title":{"rendered":"Removable Media Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

The floppy disk was the undisputed champion of removable PC media — for decades! Then it died, unable to match the growing capacity of modern files. Amen.
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\nSince the floppy’s demise, and even for a time during, alternative champions have waited in the wings. Perhaps the most popular was the ZIP disk, but it’s way, way gone as well. What remains are the optical discs, which I dispatched on Monday’s blog post<\/a>, and media cards.<\/p>\n

Based on the existence of the 19-in-one media card readers, I can safely assert that there are, most likely, at least 19 different media card formats available. Each of them is vying for a chance to be the new removable electronic storage standard.<\/p>\n

No, I’m not going to list all 19 permutations. Instead, here are a few of the more popular media cards, specifically those you could stick into a 19-in-one media card reader:<\/p>\n\n\t\t