Flash Drives and SD Cards in 2021

[FlameChrome]

Flash drives over the years has evolved along side the USB A standard, and now adapting the USB C standard in some.
SD Cards have also evolved, some use cases left would mostly be a nintendo console (like the Wii or DS family, idr if switch allows it) and cameras.

Both has come to a point in time where cloud storage is over taking this need for either of these, along with easy bluetooth transfer

Have you ever used one or both?
Do you still use either of em?
If you don't use either of them what is your alternative that you use instead of it?
Do you prefer the use of flash drives and/or sd card or rather everything be cloud storage already?
Any memorable changes you remember during the timeline of either of these products?
Feel free to add anything about this topic that i havent mentioned.

 

[Tsutarja]

you forgot to add raspberry pis to the use of sd cards

 

[Palamon]

I have used flash drives before, but don't really anymore? And I have used sd cards, since a lot of devices need them since basic storage isn't that good.

I honestly think cloud storage is better, they can't break, unlike sd cards or flash drives. The only thing stopping cloud storage working is probably a server that hosts it. Flash drives can stop reading, as well as sd cards.

 

[Juno]

I always look for phones with an SD card slot too, really easy to just pop out and take all my photos with me when I'm switching to a new phone. The last few phones I had were of different brands and transferring stuff was kind of a nightmare without an SD card.

I used flash drives a lot in high school for projects and documents and stuff, before cloud storage became more common (oop really showing my age here), but yeah, don't really have much of a use for them these days, personally.

 

[Roni]

flash drives are still a necessity for me. having 128/256gb of small and easy storage that i pay for one time is better to me than having to subscribe to online cloud services (ofc there's free versions, but what is that, 10-15GB? that's nothing to me lol), where i'd be limited by how fast the internet is at the place i'm staying. simply put, the former just gives me more peace of mind.

SD cards however, i've only ever needed mostly for phones, and DSLR cameras that i had to handle back in college. i don't pay too much attention to those. too small and easier to lose compared to flash drives which, imo, are just right.

 

[Pokedream.su]

Before the Pandemic I would use flash drives regularly to transfer files onto printers. Also, I don't want to trust the either finicky support of a cloud or for files that the cloud doesn't allow on it. One my my old student coding projects is now considered to be too dangerous to host on the cloud (its an EXE file).