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Post by alicefred on Jul 26, 2010 6:47:42 GMT -5
I am pretty new to this forum so if this isn't the right section let me know please. I am looking at buying a new SDHC card. While searching online I found these cards are available at www.dealrocker.com with good discounts. Well, I have an old SD card reader. Just wondering do I need to upgrade to a SDHC card reader or SD card read will work with SDHC card? Can anyone confirm this? I appreciate any assistance you experts can provide. |
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Post by Rachel on Jul 26, 2010 7:24:48 GMT -5
Hi alicefred ...
I've just started to use SDHC cards. Your old SD card reader won't read SDHC cards. I think that you can buy multi-card readers that will handle SDHC as well as SD but I have just bought a dedicated SDHC card reader in the form of a USB stick. I assume that you realise that your camera or what ever equipment you are using it in have to be SDHC compatible as well?
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Post by daveh on Jul 26, 2010 9:26:36 GMT -5
I have one universal reader which will read some but not all the files from some cards. If I copy all files and paste to the hard drive some files types are missing when the hard drive is explored.
I must admit I haven't investigated it any further. I've just stopped using that reader.
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Post by nikonbob on Jul 26, 2010 10:43:11 GMT -5
Hello alicefred
Welcome to the forum. We got new SDHC cards for my wife's camera and they would not read on my built in reader on the PC nor on my plug in older multi card reader. However they did read on a usb card reader that came as a bonus with some Kingston cards we bought. So you may have trouble with the reader you now have if it is an older reader. As Rachel pointed make sure the camera you intend to use them in is SDHC compatible. Your owners manual or camera manufacturer's site should have that info.
Bob
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Post by daveh on Jul 26, 2010 14:34:05 GMT -5
alicefred, sorry I too should have welcomed you.
Welcome.
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Post by SidW on Jul 29, 2010 6:16:39 GMT -5
Same experience as Rachel, same solution, same advice.
Had to download directly from the camera in the meantime, and even the dedicated camera software was having trouble.
A new small USB reader for SD only solved all the difficulties.
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Post by daveh on Jul 29, 2010 11:30:50 GMT -5
I have been thinking about this, and I realise that all the computers I have use of (since scrapping one and replacing with a notebook) have SD card inputs and they all seem to handle SDHC. The one thing that won't is the Vosonic multimedia storage/viewer: this is about five years old now.
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Post by Rachel on Jul 29, 2010 14:25:56 GMT -5
Yes, I suppose it depends how old your computer or card reader is. My computer must be 3-4 years old and as it was a sale item then it wasn't the latest thing. The built-in card reader won't handle SDHC cards.
I've just tried a multi-format card reader that I bought very cheaply a couple of years ago off eBay. It will read SDHC cards but it's very very slow.
The dedicated SDHC card reader I bought earlier this year is very fast. This reader will also handle ordinary SD cards. The make of this card reader is "integral".
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