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USB Flash Drives – USB stick, USB RAM, Memory Stick

The near-ubiquitous USB flash drive is of course improperly named, as it has no drive as such, but the term was initially coined because the devices were seen as replacements for floppy disks drives for transferring data between PCs. The 1.44MB capacity limit of floppies was beginning to render them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: Bootable Flash, Memory Stick, pen drive, USB Flash Drive, USB Flash Drives, USB stick

Sony Memory Stick technology and background

Sony are the only consumer goods manufacturer to have stuck with their own proprietary removable memory card. Their Memory Stick brand, introduced in 1998, actually covers a variety of different formats that have evolved as devices have changed, getting physically smaller but demanding more storage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: M2, memory card, Memory Stick, Micro, portable RAM, PRO, PRO Duo, PRO-HG Duo, Sony

USB Flash Drives

These are not "drives" at all - the misnomer was gained as they were intended to replace old portable drive technology. Offering massive storage and access fast enough for boot facilities, USB Flash Drives are arguably the best current portable RAM for PCs. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM

xD Picture Card , the Fuji and Olympus memory card

The full title of the xD card, the xD-Picture Card, gives away its target market, it being squarely aimed at the digital camera market. And if that wasn\'t enough, the fact that it was developed by Fuji and Olympus, two camera firms, gives the game away completely. The xD card is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: digital camera, digital image, digital photograph, Fuji, Olympus, portable RAM, xD Picture Card

Guide to SmartMedia cards, introduced as Solid State Floppy Disk Cards (SSFDC)

The SmartMedia memory card format was one of the earliest, introduced by Toshiba in 1995, when it was referred to as the Solid State Floppy Disk Card (SSFDC). It was launched shortly after the CompactFlash (CF) and of much the same size but a lot thinner, at 0.76mm rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: memory cards, mobile RAM, portable RAM, Smart Media, SmartMedia, Solid State Floppy Disk Card, SSFDC

Secure Digital (SD) Cards – popular digital camera memory card format

Secure Digital (SD) is a memory card format used to transfer data between PCs and smaller devices, such as digital cameras, PDAs, MP3 players and mobile phones. Because the memory used is solid state, i.e. it remembers what's been written to it when the power is removed, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: Matsushita, memory cards, Panasonic, portable RAM, removable RAM, Sandisk, SD, SecureDigital, Toshiba

MultiMediaCard (MMC) – SanDisk and Siemens NAND memory card for phones and smaller devices

Ten years after releasing the CompactFlash card and watching it become very successful, SanDisk had a go at repeating the trick, this time in collaboration with German company Siemens, releasing the MultiMediaCard (MMC). This was designed to take over from CompactFlash in most markets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: memory card, MMC, MultiMediaCard, NAND, portable RAM, removable RAM, Sandisk, Siemens

Guide to SanDisk’s CompactFlash memory card

Memory manufacturer SanDisk introduced CompactFlash (CF) in 1994 as a small format memory card, which used the existing PCMCIA-ATA specification to communicate with PCs. These cards are roughly a quarter the size of a PC Card and use flash technology that allows data to be stored indefinitely, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Portable RAM Tagged With: CompactFlash, memory card, portable RAM, Sandisk

Why Cross-Chain Trading Is the Future of Crypto Investing?

The rapid growth and evolution of the cryptocurrency market have opened up exciting opportunities for investors. Within this dynamic landscape, … [Read More...]

Revolutionize Your Internet Experience with Orbi 960 – The Ultimate WiFi System

In a world where seamless connectivity is essential, slow and unreliable internet connections are a major problem. Whether you are running a business, … [Read More...]

Do You Need a VPN When Trading Cryptocurrency?

There’s no doubt that the biggest global industries in 2023 are tech-driven, while there remains a significant crossover between many of these … [Read More...]

Goodbye Bitcoin: the 3 alternative cryptocurrencies that have great upside potential, according to experts

Bitcoin has been a very lucrative investment for people that got into it early. One report from The Motley Fool pointed out that $10 of bitcoin … [Read More...]

Self-driving cars face their Achilles’ heel and may be targets of hackers

The market for self-driving cars is booming. Customers spent $22.22 billion on these autonomous vehicles in 2021 and they will likely spend more in … [Read More...]

How to avoid scams with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies got a bad reputation when scams multiplied like ants on a piece of cake. Even today many people associate bitcoin and other … [Read More...]

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