Question on Inspiron Mini 9 and SDHC Cards

Hey there, I've been searching for this information but I can't get the right combination of search terms out. Also read through the whole official Mini 9 thread and didn't see this addressed.

I was wondering how far out an installed SD/SDHC card sticks out of the slot on the Mini 9? It seems a common thing for people to buy a big, fast card and leave it in there for permanent additional storage. I've got one on order thanks to all the fun with the Dell Outlet this week (missed the 15% off deal but managed to score a 512/16GB with no OS (have spare XP Pro, Vista, and Ubuntu I'm going to try) for only $329).

I ordered a 2GB stick of G.Skill 4-4-4-12 from Newegg but haven't yet picked up an SD card - I had one in my fiancée's e1505 but in her taking it places it apparently got knocked out, but since that was just for ReadyBoost, no big deal. However if I have an 8GB+ SDHC card in my Mini 9 I don't want it disappearing for obvious reasons.

Thanks!

 

It doesn't stick out at all....

here's a couple pics for reference....

 

Excellent! That makes me feel more confident about sticking a $130 SDHC card in there Thanks for your help!

 

Man, if you're spending $130 on an 8GB card, you're spending about a hundred fifteen bucks too much.

 

8GB? What would be the point of that?

 

hmm yeah i picked up a sandisk extreme II 8gb for 35+tax. $130 seems a little bit more expensive than the norm. Maybe its one of those crazy fast ones??

 

I am using a 16SDHC and just be prepared for it to be SUPER slow compared to the 16SSD- Its fine for some extra storage but I would not run anything on it due to SLOW.

$32 for 16

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220254

 

Yeah I am looking at one of the Extreme III 30MB/s edition 16 GB cards for $130 from Newegg. There's only one review of it and it's from an Eee user who benched it just as fast as the primary SSD. However, the 16GB Ridata for $35 (I tend to gravitate to the ones with lots of reviews) seems pretty good too.

I was specifically turned off by the comments folks left on the Patriot linked above though, because one of the reviews mentioned a camcorder telling the person that the memory wasn't fast enough.

 

thanks for the pics. i was scouring google for them with no luck. thanks very much makes my 200 purchase shipped w tax even more lovely

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...rms=algo=SI&its=I&itu=UCI&otn=13&po=LVI&ps=54

i bought one of these but when i bought it a month ago it was only $29.50. shipped fast and works great in my mini. i basically use it to store movies on and i think the mini9 is a great small movie player. no stuttering or anything and i'm using the free media player classic (not a windows program).