In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

A standards group hopes to develop a memory card format called UFS. It'll face some obstacles getting to market, but may succeed embedded in mobile phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...

There are numerous flash card formats. This section will give a brief overview of the predominant types. These two cards offer the same electrical interface, but have different form factors. The ...

In many ways, flash memory has become the darling of the storage industry. Not only do a huge variety of devices use flash for basic data storage, we're already seeing movement towards both SSDs ...

Are you ready for yet another flash memory card format? No? Too bad, Pretec wants to add C-Flash to the already way, way too long list of flash memory card formats we have to worry about. (It's bad ...

25 Years of CompactFlash: A Look Back at the Pioneering Format In 1994, we saw the debut of a pioneering format for flash memory products that could fit easily in devices like PDAs and digital cameras ...

Yet, it too is in the process of becoming obsolete, as even smaller formats break through the good-enough barrier. 1-Gbyte CF cards based on flash memory are mainstream, larger versions are also ...

When it comes to memory cards, it's easy to become confused thanks to all of the different types and variations available. Memory cards are used in a range of devices, from cameras and camcorders to ...

SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) and Sony Corporation today announced the development of the “Memory Stick PRO-HG” format expanded from the “Memory Stick PRO” format. The continuing increase in the ...

Not that anyone seems to be demanding yet another Flash memory card format, but SanDisk just took the wraps off of T-Flash, which is meant to be used with cellphones. The new format is just 11mm by ...