Micro SD Cards

By: Burton Gilbert | Posted: 02nd February 2011

MicroSD is a format for detachable flash memory cards. SD stands for Secure Digital. Generally, these cards are used in cellular phones and some new handheld GPS devices, expandable USB flash memory drives, Nintendo DS flashcards, and handheld GPS devices, digital audio players, expandable USB flash memory drives, Nintendo DS flashcards, portable media players, and digital cameras. MicroSD is the smallest memory card which available commercially at 15 × 11 × 1 mm. The size of MicroSC cards is about a quarter the size of a standard-sized SD card.

Now-a-days, most of people store their important data on portable memory sources. Mobile phone, portable global positioning system (GPS) devices, and video and audio players and recorders users use to store their data on devices. MicroSD cards are one of the primary formats for these portable memory sources. These cards are manufactured by SanDisk, which lends the SD to the name. Well, the extra part of the name comes from the tiny size of the card. The microSD card is at the top of the class in the race to store huge information in less space. These cards can be used with devices which have SD card slots by using a special adapter. The microSD cards have memory capability of unreliable quantities. Well let’s talk about the amount of memory; a common amount of memory for one of these cards is 1 gigabyte (GB), while microSD cards are obtainable in capacities of 128 megabytes (MB), 256 MB, 512 MB, and 2 GB.

These cards are able to support encryption and content defense making them very fast in transferring data. The transfer rate of micro SD cards is 10 to 20 MB’s per second. While the average transfer rate for a 600 to 1200MB file would take about one minute to load, pretty inspiring. Both TransFlash and microSD cards are similar, except that microSD adds support for SDIO mode. MicroSD cards have universal compatibility with TransFlash memory card slots. It comes with an SD Adapter for using with microSD or TransFlash cards. You can easily buy these cards from market as well as online from various websites.


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