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...]
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...]