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[Yorkie]

SD cards have the merit of being small and flat, and being solid state, would I think be less vulnerable than CDs and could be taped or clipped inside the set. The unfortunate thing is that storage media is now so cheap that there seems to be no benefit in manufacturers making anything less than 8GB - a massive amount of space. I recently tried to get some 1gB USB sticks and got laughed off the face of the planet. "Why would I only want 1gB ones when 8gB are only a fiver and even they are slowly but surely going out?" they ask. Well it's just for passing documents between woodturning Club committee members rather than paper and in days gone by, a 1.44mB floppy would have done nicely.

I wouldn't have thought that SD cards or USB sticks would either fail or become unreadable for many years.