Really small memory pictures5/17/2023 ![]() In January of 2006, a new standard was developed that not only increased card capacity to up to 32 GB in size, but also doubled the performance of the cards, allowing much faster read and write speeds. With a 2 GB capacity limit, the original SD cards were obviously no longer sufficient, so the SD Card association had to come up with a new specification that allowed larger capacity cards. ![]() Quick Summary: Obsolete format, move on to SDHC or SDXC cards. Today, the original SD cards have been fully discontinued and they have been replaced by the newer-generation SDHC and SDXC cards. The nice thing about the SD card specification, is that it allowed the SD Card Association to keep the same physical dimensions and appearance, while being able to create newer generation SD cards with higher capacities and speeds. However, due to file system and other limitations, SD cards could only hold up to 2 GB of data maximum, so new standards had to be developed in order to allow larger capacity memory cards. With a fairly small size of 24.0 (W) x 32.0 (L) x 2.1mm (H), relatively low cost of production and adoption by many manufacturers, SD cards quickly became an industry standard. The three companies later formed the SD Card Association to create, promote and enforce SD card standards across the industry. Secure Digital cards, or shortly “SD cards” were jointly developed by SanDisk, Panasonic and Toshiba and introduced in 1999 for use in portable devices. Many other memory card types were introduced and then abandoned over the years, but we did not list them all. It is important to note that the above table is limited to the most popular memory cards and form factors used on digital cameras and camcorders. Here is a quick summary of different types of memory cards available on the market today, along with their dimensions and abbreviations: # The most common memory card formats today are SD, microSD, XQD and CFexpress, although CompactFlash was also a very common memory card format for many years. In photography, memory cards are commonly used in digital cameras, varying in type, form factor, capacity, speed / class and brand.
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