Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Memory Cards and their use

Memory Cards are NAND Flash memory type chips that are available in extremely small dimensions. There are different classes of memory cards based upon the size and speed of the memory. The memory cards are commonly used in many devices like mobile phones, laptops, portable music players, digital cameras and camcorders and many video game consoles.

Some of the different types of memory cards include sd memory cards, sdhc memory card, MMC etc. SD stands for secure digital and is a standard memory card module for use in most of the mobile phones and laptop computers.

MicroSD is a miniature variant of SD cards and SDHC is a high speed memory card for use in demanding devices like digital SLR cameras which have the need to store a large amount of data in a short amount of time.

There are different classes of SD cards according to the read or write speeds. Solid state memory card devices are also used in many gaming consoles which allow for the graphic games to initiate. There are card readers available for reading the memory card data in a personal computer.

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