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on Jul 15, 2021 14:20:12 GMT
Posted: Jul 15, 2021 14:20:12 GMT
OK folks - looking at its packaging, this is the most over-described, over-hyped SD card in existence...a Yashica-Europe 16Gb 'Hybrid Disk Drive'.  Yashica 16GB SDDespite the description of a 'Hybrid Hard Disk', this re-branded package contains a SD Adapter which contains a 16Gb micro-SD card - I suppose that's the 'Hybrid' part of the description... Except that in this case I've been ripped off as this 'factory fresh, unopened' item is missing the memory chip: the micro-SD card is absent. Which is probably a blessing as reading along the line of things against which it's proof, in addition to the expected qualities such as weather, dust, shock, X-ray and water, it appears to be proof against Data too! Now that's a first for the Yashica brand - a micro-SD card that is proof against data. What will they think up next - a light-averse digital sensor; film that only works in complete darkness? The possibilities are almost endless... |
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on Jul 15, 2021 14:48:43 GMT
Last Edit: Jul 15, 2021 14:48:57 GMT by lumiworx
There's all kinds of 'wrong' going on here, but the "Data Proof" is most certainly befuddling. I can only assume there's a Chinese marketing director that is also overqualified to do the job to produce this masterpiece of packaging. It's also amusing that the size of the adapter is larger than almost every Android phone or tablet I've ever seen might be able to accomodate.
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on Jul 15, 2021 16:06:01 GMT
Posted: Jul 15, 2021 16:06:01 GMT
There's all kinds of 'wrong' going on here, but the "Data Proof" is most certainly befuddling. I can only assume there's a Chinese marketing director that is also overqualified to do the job to produce this masterpiece of packaging. It's also amusing that the size of the adapter is larger than almost every Android phone or tablet I've ever seen might be able to accomodate. Yup; if I was being polite, I'd describe the packaging as a complete cluster*uck. |
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on Mar 27, 2022 19:01:02 GMT
Posted: Mar 27, 2022 19:01:02 GMT
Well, finally, I have a Yashica-branded SD Adapter which contains a micro-SD card, this time being of a 8Gb capacity.  Yashica 8GbHowever, the eagle-eyed among you will have spotted a meaningless, hyped reference on the Adapter which refers to Class 20; to date there is no Class 20 speed specification for either a SD or micro-SD card. At least the micro card has the decency only to admit that it's of 8Gb capacity. though why it feels it has to say Re-Writable UltraHD is baffling. |
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on Mar 27, 2022 22:35:00 GMT
Last Edit: Mar 27, 2022 23:15:49 GMT by lumiworx
You're correct that there's no such animal as 'Class 20' speeds for SD cards - or any other types for that matter. As for cramming the empty space with as much nonsense as possible, clearly someone has carried that design philosophy on down to the 2nd card as well. Obviously they weren't a student of Wabi Sabi, which ironically enough, is Japanese in origin. I notice that this is another hardware product with driver limitations (similar to the FS-500 film scanner) that are meant to run on obsolete versions of Windows. For those that don't have an existing PC that's still running the needed version(s) - but still have the install disks - it is possible to get free software to create a virtual PC and run whatever plug-in devices you want that won't work otherwise. Oracle's VirtualBox can run almost any operating system ever created, and provide pass-through access to physical in/out ports on the host computer. I've used it for years, and it really does work very well. |
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on Mar 28, 2022 11:37:53 GMT
Posted: Mar 28, 2022 11:37:53 GMT
Hi lumiworx, Sage advice indeed on running outmoded software. I keep one PC running 98SE and one XP, which never connect with the internet, just for the fun of running old software and a couple of tank simulators. VueScan confirmed that they can't provide any assistance to run the FS-500 but I found some updated drivers that will run on XP. So I'm looking forward to trying it out. |
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