subject: Memory Cards [print this page] Now a days we store all that in a much better and smaller way! We store it in our digital camera memory, and of course most of us have the sdhc memory cards now. We store it on our external hard drives, or our M2 memory cards. We store it on our Micro-SD Memory Cards. We live for the latest and greatest revolution in the memory stick evolution. We wait with baited breath to hear if our memory card has an upgrade so we can print faster or store more.
Twenty years ago the concept of losing all our phone numbers because the memory card went bad was simply unheard of. We all had our rolodexes on our desks and happily flitted through those huge cardboard cards to find just the right number. We mourned the loss of a card perhaps, but we never really worried about it. We could always write another card.
Now we just gotta have a new memory card, or we gotta have a new memory stick - or sometimes we gotta have both. No matter, if we don't have memory sticks or memory cards, we can't survive.
Memory cards are from range anywhere from less than 1GB of storage to approximately 64GB. It largely depends on how you use your camera or camcorder for, you can find a card that falls within a certain storage range. For example, shutterbugs who want to occasionally snap photos throughout the holidays will probably get by with a card thats between 1 and 4GB. If you plan to heavily use your digital camera to document the first few years of your childs life or to create images for your continually growing scrapbook, youre probably better off with a memory card that offers at least 8GB of storage.
Commonly, you will find the memory cards in solid state, but they can also be found in a non-solid state, albeit these types of memory cards do not use flash memory. These depends on cutting age technologies and used largely by the gamers and the technical professionals and are often termed to as "mem-cards" by these techies.
There are various types and qualities of memory cards using various types of flash memory format. Various leading electronic companies in the world offer a wide range of models packed with many state of the art features, which includes high re-recordability, power-free storage, compact size and many more.
