Saturday, September 10, 2011

The Genius of a Memory Card

By Jason Sloan


Bigger isn't better as the world's consumers consistently requirement for ever smaller and lighter gizmos. Digital and camcorders, mobile telephones, MP3 players and PCs all are in a race to be the smallest. This trend necessitates the use of correspondingly small data storage media. And this requirement gave birth to the memory card.

A memory card, also known as flash memory card, flash card or storage card is an electronic data storage device used to store info like texts, photos, audio and video files. Memory cards are now as small as a postage stamp and as such can be subtly inserted into small, lightweight or remote computing devices. Electronic devices which use memory cards include digicams, cell phones, laptop PCs and video game consoles.

The history of the memory card goes back to the 1990's when PC cards were the 1st memory card formats commercialized. Now, the market is abound with a wide array of memory cards like the Compact Flash card or CF card, the SmartMedia or SM card, the Memory Stick, the Multi Media Card or MMC and the Secure Digital card or SD. These storage cards range in sizes from that of a matchbox to that which is smaller than the already mentioned postage stamp.

The advantages of the memory card are numerous. Memory cards, due to their pocket size, are highly portable, being solid state media, have no moving parts and so are more defended from mechanical damage and are entirely silent. They also have what is often known as consistently powered non-volatile memory which essentially means they can store data even without power.

The main use of memory cards is as data storage medium for digital cameras. In reality it's the advent of electronic cameras that revolutionized the photo industry. While the now-obsolete film photography naturally needs scrimping on the quantity of shots to lower the cost, digital photography can now have virtually non-stop picture-taking as pictures can just be selected and removed when needed. Footage are now more candid, less synthesised, not to mention a world sharper and richer than those of bygone days.

Because picture-taking is a breeze with memory-card-filled digital cameras, the tendency is for there to be multitudes of pictures stored in them, and sadly these files are at risk of being lost should the card fail, be damaged or become corrupt. Professionals issue a grave warning that if you ever lose information on a memory card, you need to instantly cease using it.

If your memory card is not working it can not be resolved by data recovery software, actually this may sometimes worsen the problem. If the footage are extremely important, as in the case of a wedding photographer who runs the risk of being sued for losing his clients ' wedding day photographs, the best solution is to get a flash drive recovery. When your pictures are so significant as to affect your livelihood, your relations or your sanity, recover them via the experience of a specialist data recovery company.




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