subject: Know More About Compact Flash [print this page] One should know that compact flash act as a mass storage device format basically used in portable electronic devices. The compact flash is having the usage of flash memory in a very standardized enclosure for storage. In the year 1994 the compact flash format was first time launched and produced by sandisk. Now this physical format of compact flash is used in differnt kinds of devices. Mostly compact flash has usages in digital cameras as it is popular for good storage medium. During these years the taste of the users has been changed. They are preferring mostly smaller cards instead of compactflash. But compactflash is still used in many professional dslr cameras seeing the reliability and the capacity.
One can see two types of compact flash such as typeI and thicker type II cards. Mostly the compactflash type II slot is having usage in many microdrives alongwith other devices like the hasseblad cfv digital back which is used in hasseblad series for medium format cameras. One will also come across four types of compactflash speed cards such as original cf, cf high speed, speedy cf 3.0 standard and speedy cf 4.0 standard which is later accepted in the year 2007. The breadth of the cf card type is followed by the preceder pc card standard. The concept of compactflash introduced in the market around intel's nor based flahs memory which is later switched over to nand.
Now one will find compactflash as the oldest and more successful formats in the market. In this way compactflash has made its place in the industry of professional camera to some extent. Seeing the cost and memory size compact flash has done well in the market than the rest of the other products. So compactflash format is now having new card of smaller size iwth the aid of an adapter. So those formats which can be used in this way are sd or mmc, memory stick duo, xd-picture card inthe type I slot, and many smart media in the type II slot. Many multcard readers have the usage of compactflash in I/O. So before making the usage of compactflash one should have the information and without having no knowledge one should not use it as defective or other forms of formats carrying compactflash label might defect the compactflash.
