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The basis for memory card technology is flash memory. [2] It was invented by Fujio Masuoka at Toshiba in 1980 [3] [4] and commercialized by Toshiba in 1987. [5] [6] The development of memory cards was driven in the 1980s by the need for an alternative to floppy disk drives that had lower power consumption, had less weight and occupied less ...
Unlocked and locked SD cards Sony 64 GB SF-M Tough Series UHS-II SDXC Memory Card is one of the few cards in the market without a sliding tab on the write protect notch. Most full-size SD cards have a "mechanical write protect switch" allowing the user to advise the host computer that the user wants the device to be treated as read-only.
It is known for its flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, solid-state drives, and digital audio players. The company was founded in 1988 as SunDisk Corporation and renamed in 1995 as SanDisk Corporation; [2] then renamed to SanDisk LLC in 2016 when it was acquired by Western Digital. [3]
Original PC Card memory cards used an internal battery to maintain data when power was removed. The rated life of the battery was the only reliability issue. CompactFlash cards that use flash memory, like other flash-memory devices, are rated for a limited number of erase/write cycles for any "block."
PS Vita Memory Card 2012 64 GB Subcompact (15 mm × 12.5 mm × 1.6 mm [7]), compulsory DRM, up to 64 GB, proprietary (can be used on PS Vita only) P2 (storage media) Panasonic MicroP2: 2012 64 GB MicroP2 is a SDXC/SDHC card conforming to UHS-II (Ultra High Speed bus), and can be read by common SDHC/SDXC card readers. xD: Olympus, Fujifilm, Sony
An XQD card reader from Sony. The XQD card is a memory card format primarily developed for flash memory cards. It uses PCI Express as a data transfer interface. The format is targeted at high-definition camcorders and high-resolution digital cameras.
USB FlashCard is a flash memory card format developed by Lexar, and announced on December 13, 2004. [15] There is a wide range of existing memory card formats such as SD, xD, and CompactFlash; the major advantage of USB FlashCard is that the cards are in fact standard USB flash drives. [16]
Since the introduction of SD cards, few companies build MMC slots into their devices (an exception is some mobile devices like the Nokia 9300 communicator in 2004, where the smaller size of the MMC is a benefit), but the slightly thinner, pin-compatible MMCs can be used in almost any device that can use SD cards if the software/firmware on the ...