All About Memory Cards

Flash drives are manufactured in many different formats. Different memory cards are manufactured for all the different electronic devices available. Massive quantities of Flash portable storage sticks and cards are bought worldwide each year, and many were not intended for their current use.

Taking a few seconds to properly assess your storage needs before making a purchase will allow you to make an a more informed choice and end up with a far better data storage device that will work for you.

Data Storage Cards

There are popular format standards that are used by the vast majority of large manufacturers. The most popular are SD cards, Micro and Mini SD cards, USB’s, and CompactFlash drives.

The two most important details when buying ideal data storage, are the capacity of the card and the data transfer speed. Memory technology moves quite quickly resulting in an increase in memory capacity and an increase in data transfer speed.

The bigger and quicker the memory, the more costly it will be. Following on from the recent surge in the use of mobile devices for HD videos and gaming, mobile data storage of enormous files has now become more important than ever before.

Stick Capacity

Currently, as we head into 2014, flash drives are available up to 256GB and storage is on course to pass 2TB by the start of the 20’s.

Mobile memory storage is ever more stable and reliable, giving owners more confidence and security than was once the case.

Many memory cards are hot swappable which means that you can remove them from devices without having to first eject them.

They are also configured to be compatible with both Microsoft and Apple, so transferring data onto your Mac or PC is easy for using at a later date.

CompactFlash cards

Professional grade digital cameras usually offer several memory card slots and take Compact Flash memory cards (which are often the preference for commercial photographers) and SDXC memory also.

For professional photographers, often they only have one opportunity to preserve a moment, so they be certain that the photos they capture are going to be stored securely.

CompactFlash cards are some of the most reliable portable storage cards as well as the most trusted. Most wedding day photography specialists tend to use several lesser capacity memory cards during a wedding shoot in preference to saving all their photographs onto a single high capacity data card.

This provides added security because in the worst case scenario, if data is corrupted, they’ll just lose a single section of their work, rather than losing it all.

In spite of the reliability and consistence of modern storage devices, it is a sensible precaution to keep your data safe by backing it up in this way as it can save a lot of tears later.

Because of their tiny size, flash cards are an incredibly handy method of carrying large volumes of content for either portability or safety.

Cards and sticks can be easily stored in a wallet, pocket or purse, or discreetly consealed to safeguard your most important intellectual property.

Portable memory comes in two forms, USB driven and an array of different dimensioned memory card drives which require a compatible memory card slot or a multi-card reader unit which is connected to a PC or Mac via a USB.

The devices you are looking to buy, or already own will normally dictate which types of cards you will need.

If you are only intending to store documents from your PC or Mac then a USB flash drive would be your ideal choice.

With the sale price of memory cards and sticks falling, this is the perfect moment to invest in newer, faster and larger capacity memory to back up your most valuable information.