EYE ON NPI - ACES Group’s Vertical MicroSD Card Connectors

This week's EYE ON NPI is "aces", literally! It's ACES Group’s Vertical MicroSD Card Connectors (www.digikey.com/en/product-hi..., a great way to increase your enclosure design flexibility, maybe even improve BOM costs by not requiring a separate PCB for mechanical stability.
MicroSD cards are a great way to add gigabytes of data storage for low cost and user-serviceability: they're available at just about any store - even grocery stores! Cards are usually under $10, and DigiKey stocks a huge variety of speeds and sizes. (www.digikey.com/short/b43p5rzq)
The ACES card sockets come in two styles. The MSDV-2008-AKA0T01 (www.digikey.com/short/b449j9p5) is minimal, with the smallest size but no push-push eject - instead you have to pull the card out. The MSDV-2108-BK33T (www.digikey.com/short/7hnwrbd1) has push-push eject so it's easier to remove cards, but the overall package is much larger. The minimal one is also less expensive, about $1 in quantity whereas the fancy one is $1.60.
Both come with the promise of accessing a MicroSD card at a perpendicular angle from the PCB - a design we've never seen before in a micro SD card holder! Historically, we've only seen and used 'right angle' style like the MSD-6-A from CUI (www.digikey.com/en/products/d...) - and DigiKey stocks tons of variants of MicroSD sockets (www.digikey.com/short/zfn2rcm3) such as hinged, push-pull, even super-skinny (blog.adafruit.com/2022/07/26/.... But, this is the first and only one we've ever seen that is 'vertical' not right angle, with all pins brought out plus card detection. The design is well thought-out with through-hole contacts plus 3 extra-wide mechanical stabilizers and a flat plastic seat so that customers jamming cards in off-angle won't tear the pads off.
We've already picked up some of each to make a breakout board so folks can add these to their prototype design, but you shouldn't wait on us! If you want to add these two unique microSD sockets to your design - order from DigiKey today! They have both the MSDV-2008-AKA0T01 (www.digikey.com/short/b449j9p5) and MSDV-2108-BK33T (www.digikey.com/short/7hnwrbd1) in stock right now for immediate shipment.
Place your order right now and you'll be integrating the new ACES Group’s Vertical MicroSD Card Connectors (www.digikey.com/en/product-hi...) by tomorrow afternoon.

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Interesting to see vertical SD cards again as some industrial control boards use these vertical SD cards. This is because the board is in a machine with only access from the top of the board. I preferred these as the ones flat to the board was hard to get out of the confined space!
It was several years ago as I have been out of the industrial full time for 3 years due to an accident.