SD Cards

June 26, 2007 on 5:26 am | In Mobile |

While the SD (or Secure Digital) card market seems to have been around for a long time, it only really took off in 1999 after an agreement between Matsushita, SanDisk and Toshiba regarding a new format for digital storage devices. Originally designed to compete with Sony’s market offerings, SD technology has a major foothold in the technology markets of today.

As technology continues to improve and develop at lightening quick speed, many issues such as memory capacity have been somewhat left behind. This has created a necessity for portable Mini SD cards which can be used with products such as handheld computers, digital cameras, GPS units, PDA devices and an array of other portable products on the market.

At first glance the size of these cards can be very misleading with memory capacity up to and beyond 512MB now available. When you consider that initial SD cards were offering capacity as low as 8MB, you can see how quickly the market is developing. The current leaders in the sector are Kingston and ScanDisk who have a proven track record for releasing cards which push the boundaries further and further back.

While there has been particular interest in memory cards from the business market, where life on the move can have its difficulties, SD cards are also popular with the mass consumer. As memory capacities grow, the general cost of memory cards has fallen and with ever increasing competition in the sector, it is the consumer who is set to benefit further.

In summary, SD cards have become an integrate part of the information technology era, often allowing manufacturers to bridge the short term gap between new technologies and memory capacity. Easy to use, simple to store and very secure, Cheap micro SD cards are proving ever more popular

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