authorizeduser wrote:
I use something very similar. My device looks like a thumb drive where the SDHC card plugs into the side. Great little USB device and at $2.99 I could not resist. As far as wear goes, I have devices I have removed and inserted SD cards into 100's if not thousands of times with no apparent problems. Unlike CF cards, SD do not have pins to get bent. I keep my device in my camera bag. Picked mine up at Micro Center. Cool and useful little device.
One of the reasons CF cards pins get bent is people don't watch what they are doing they flip the card 180 and push them in the slot guess what bent pin's. If you can't remember how it goes in look for the instructions for the camera, now the better way is use the USB cable that came with the camera simple. If you must take out and then put back in, if you feel any resistance don't force it please turn it around it will slip in just fine.