I unexpectly just downsized my notebook's storage to a 60GB SSD, and need to supplement the storage. I travel a lot, and like to have most of my data with me.
The notebook in question is a five-year old Acer Travelmate which has a card reader that handles SD, MMC, Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro media. I know next-to-nothing about these cards.
I read here a suggestion to simply insert, and leave in, an SD card to have "built-in" extra storage. I like that idea, since it's not adding a piece of hardware to carry with me on trips, like an external HDD or yet another thumb drive to lose.
However, on doing research, it appears that an SD card is limited to 2GB maximum storage. Only SDHC cards are larger, but they are not compatible with my card reader. Am I correct so far?
Do I understand correctly that MMC, MMC Plus, and SecureMMC cards are all compatible with the standard SD reader like I have, but only go up to 4GB maximum size?
If the above is all correct, the only way I see to implement this scheme would be with MemoryStick Pro and get either 16GB for about $50 or 32GB for about $80.
I've had such a rush of hardware changes and failures in the past couple weeks that my head is spinning, and want to make sure I'm heading in the right direction with this strategy. Any feedback is welcome!
The notebook in question is a five-year old Acer Travelmate which has a card reader that handles SD, MMC, Memory Stick and Memory Stick Pro media. I know next-to-nothing about these cards.
I read here a suggestion to simply insert, and leave in, an SD card to have "built-in" extra storage. I like that idea, since it's not adding a piece of hardware to carry with me on trips, like an external HDD or yet another thumb drive to lose.
However, on doing research, it appears that an SD card is limited to 2GB maximum storage. Only SDHC cards are larger, but they are not compatible with my card reader. Am I correct so far?
Do I understand correctly that MMC, MMC Plus, and SecureMMC cards are all compatible with the standard SD reader like I have, but only go up to 4GB maximum size?
If the above is all correct, the only way I see to implement this scheme would be with MemoryStick Pro and get either 16GB for about $50 or 32GB for about $80.
I've had such a rush of hardware changes and failures in the past couple weeks that my head is spinning, and want to make sure I'm heading in the right direction with this strategy. Any feedback is welcome!