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can a $2 part solve my microSD problems
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let's find out Dave Taylor here and I
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have all sorts of devices including this
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this is the DJI maverick pro drone and
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it works by writing it's video files to
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a little teeny tiny micro SD card that
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lives in its belly let's put this over
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here and the problem is is that the
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latest generation of macbook pro doesn't
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have an SD card reader let alone a micro
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SD card reader now usually when you buy
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a micro SD card it comes with a little
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adapter but that adapter doesn't fit in
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the computer either so I poked around
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and I went onto gearbest.com and I found
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this this is a $2.00 and $0.64 with free
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shipping part and it is a USB c2 micro
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SD card reader for 2 bucks
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crazy right but does it work I don't
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know I haven't tried it yet let's go
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ahead and try it right while we're right
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here on camera let's see first challenge
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is figuring out the orientation that
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seems to fit well so I'm gonna put it in
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the computer and let's spin around and
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you'll see what's going on let's go
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ahead and open it up and looks like we
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have access to all of our files and
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movies that's great so let's have a
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quick speed test here is a 1 gigabyte
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file let's go ahead and drag it onto the
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desktop and let's see how fast it
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so it's gonna take about a minute to
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copy this one gig file that's okay you
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know what instead of just looking at
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this though let's go ahead and let's run
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a speed test to do that we can just use
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the X bench utility a free program
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someone has written to let you test
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things we don't need anything else all
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we want to do is find that DJI and do a
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test let's see what it produces and it's
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and my guess is it's not gonna be
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particularly fast but quite frankly for
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two dollars how fast does it need to be
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and really I'm more interested in
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reading them writing so let's get the
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right test out of the way and in fact
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let's just jump forward to the read test
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so here we are in the middle of the read
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test it's just gone through sequential
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and it's doing random and I'm pretty
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much not gonna go any further here you
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can see it's not breaking any speed
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records with my MacBook Pro but it's
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certainly letting me read and write to
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the micro SD card with a $2.00 device
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so there you have it pretty
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straightforward I just pull this out and
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for 2 dollars and 64 cents I have solved
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the problem of how do I read micro SD
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cards on my macbook pro that only has
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USB C as its interface so super easy
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gearbest.com has this in gold and silver
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this one's silver and there's a silver
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and white combination and oh one thing I
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want to show you also is it lights up
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blue when it's plugged in I like it
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but seriously two bucks including
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shipping that's less than a cup of
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coffee at Starbucks and now I can just
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leave this in the bag that I use for my
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maverick Pro drone and I've got the
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problem solved forever how is that not
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really cool you don't always have to
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spend a ton of money to solve your
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problems with these interfaces now
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before I go further let me ask you go
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ahead and click on that subscribe button
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I really appreciate it
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so that's all I got $2 64 cents
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gearbest.com search for USB C and micro
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SD and you'll find it check it out this
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is Dave Taylor and I'll catch you in my
