Are you aware of Memory stick you are using day to day life?

we are using memory sticks in our daily life as a storage  device in out mobile phones laptops cameras etc but how much we are aware about the memory sticks, Here our small blog will share you some information about it.

 Memory stick

Memory stick

The memory stick MS is a memory card product introduced by Sony in 1999. The shape resembles chewing gum and its length is the same as an ordinary AA battery, weighs only 4 grams. 10-pin interface structure and built-in write protection switch. According to the color of the shell, the memory stick can also be a blue strip and a white strip. White bars have more Magic Gate copyright protection features, often used in media players. As Sony's digital product line is very rich, the memory stick Memory Stick is widely used. Memory Stick Memory Stick has been widely used in digital cameras, PDAs and digital video cameras.

Since other manufacturers have introduced faster and smaller memory cards, Sony has also introduced expansion products for Memory Stick, including MS PRO, MS Duo, MS PRO Duo, MS Micro, and Compact Vault. The family of memory sticks is indeed dazzling. To promote its brand all along the nation they have made a decision to promote their products in Authorized Motorola service center in marathahalli, Bangalore and all over the cities.

MS PRO

It is called an enhanced memory stick and measures 50 x 21.5 x 2.8mm. Its maximum transmission speed is up to 160Mbps and its maximum capacity is up to 32GB. Please be sure to note that Memory Stick Pro is not backwards compatible with the original memory stick, so when buying a product, it must be clear whether it supports this type of memory stick. This stick has been widely used in Sony digital cameras since 2003.

MS Duo

Called a pocket type memory stick (short stick), the size is 20×31×1.6mm, the volume is reduced by about 1/3 compared to the standard Memory Stick, and the total amount is reduced by 1/2, making MS The total amount of Duo is only 2g! The maximum write speed is 14.4Mbps, and the maximum read speed is 19.6Mbps.

MS PRO Duo

This is a new version of the MS Duo, measuring 20 x 31 x 1.6 mm. It also supports Magic Gate’s copyright protection technology with a transfer speed of up to 20MB/s. Short sticks are widely used in Sony digital cameras, Sony digital cameras, Sony Ericsson mobile phones and PSP . The MS Duo can be connected to a standard MS product using an adapter. It is recommended to purchase the MS PRO Duo stick when purchasing an MS PRO memory stick for use on more digital products.

MS Micro (M2)

In February 2006, a very compact memory card designed primarily for mobile phones was introduced. Measuring 15 x 12 x 1.2 mm, it is only a quarter of the MS PRO Duo. It supports 1.8V and 3.3V dual voltage.

Compact Vault

It is a kind of micro hard disk product that Sony and Seagate have developed in cooperation with CFII memory card standard. At present, the maximum capacity reaches 8GB, and it can store 2560 images of about 3MB in size or 320 minutes of MP4.

PCIe flash memory card

Flash memory card

Flash memory card (Flash Card) [6]  is the use of flash memory (Flash Memory) technology to achieve memory storing electronic information, generally used in digital cameras, handheld computers, MP3 and other small digital products as the storage medium, so look small, like a Cards, so called flash cards. The PCI-e flash memory card (PCI-Express) is the latest bus and interface standard. Its original name was "3GIO," and PCIe is a high-speed serial point-to-point dual-channel high-bandwidth transmission. The connected device allocates exclusive channel bandwidth. Does not share resources, mainly supports active power management, error reporting, end-to-end reliability transmission, hot swap and quality of service (QOS) and other functions.

The principle is based on [NAND-type flash memory]. The basic memory location of the memory and NOR-type flash memory is bit, and the user can randomly access any bit of information. The basic storage unit is a NAND flash memory page (Page) (see, NAND flash memory page on a similar hard disk sectors, a sector of the hard drive is also 512 bytes). The effective capacity of each page is a multiple of 512 bytes. The so-called effective capacity refers to the part used for data storage, in fact, plus 16 bytes of verification information, so we can see the "(512 +16) Byte" representation in the flash vendor's technical data. . Most of the NAND-type flash memories with a capacity of 2 GB or less are (512 + 16) bytes of page capacity, and NAND-type flash memories with capacities of 2 GB or more expand the page capacity to (2048 + 64) bytes.

Other cards

CF card

CF cards are one of the oldest memory cards on the market, with large storage capacity, low cost, and good compatibility.

 CF card

All are the advantages of CF cards, while the disadvantages are larger. It was first introduced by the US SanDisk , Hitachi , Toshiba , German Ingentix, Panasonic and other 5C alliances in 1994 and already owns Canon , LG , Epson , Casio , Minolta , Nikon , Kodak , NEC , Polaroid, Panasonic, Psion, HP. And many other OEM users and partners, the company is very solid foundation.

The CF card consists of a control chip and a memory module. The interface uses a 50-pin design. It has the CFI and CFII types, and the latter is twice as thick as the former. Digital cameras that only support CFI cards do not support CFII cards. CFII card cameras are backward compatible with CFI. Canon and Nikon’s digital cameras are all strong advocates of CF memory cards, and almost all digital SLR cameras use CF cards as storage media.

Although CF has been around for a long time, it still exudes vitality. Many large-capacity, compact CF memory cards have been introduced, including IBM's and Hitachi's Microdrive series (MD), which uses a CFII card design. The biggest difference between the CF card and the CF card is that it does not use a memory chip but uses a micro hard disk as a storage medium. Compared with a CF card, MD performs less in terms of durability, especially its shock resistance, but MD has the advantage of high capacity and cost-effectiveness. .

In addition, large manufacturers such as SanDisk have also developed CF cards with capacities of up to 120G. These large-capacity CF cards have plenty of room for professional digital cameras.

In a CF memory card used in a digital camera, the access speed flag is x, where "1 x" = 150 KB/s, for example: 4 x (600 KB/s), 8 x

 Different types of memory cards

 (1.2MB/s) 10× (1.5MB/s), 12× (1.8MB/s), now has a CF memory card up to 40×. Relatively speaking, the use of faster CF cards will improve the shooting effect of digital cameras, but some of the low-end digital camera products in practical applications will be used even if they are used due to CCD sensors, components used, and technical reasons. With higher speed CF memory cards, the speed advantage is also difficult to manifest. It is recommended that high-end digital camera users can consider selecting a high-speed CF memory card to speed up access and ensure the shooting results.

In CF memory cards, different manufacturers usually adopt some patented technologies to optimize the reading and writing speeds of digital cameras and memory cards, such as Lexar’s Write Acceleration Technology (WA), through the use of Write Acceleration Technology (WA) in digital cameras. Can make the digital camera have faster transmission speed, reduce redundant instructions, especially for high-resolution digital cameras, by reducing the writing speed of shooting high-resolution image files, so that continuous shooting mode applications are optimized. That’s why while buying a new memory stick ensure you are getting the right one, just check any mobile service center near me in the Google  search  to get Authorized mobile service center to get the original products , Let’s check XD image card.

XD image card

The XD image card is a follow-up product of the Fujitsu and Olympus Optical Industrial Development SM card. The card is 20.0 x 25.0 x 1.7 mm in size and weighs only 3 grams. It is one of the smallest and lightest memory cards available.

After 2003, Fuji film and Olympus introduced digital cameras that all use XD memory cards as media. The xD-Picture Card is an abbreviation for "extreme Digital." The read speed is up to 5MB/sec, and the write speed is up to 3MB/sec (specification: 64MB or more). Power consumption is only 25mW.

SM card

The SM (Smart Media) card was a Flash Memory card issued by Toshiba in November 1995. Samsung acquired a production and sales license in 1996. The two companies became major SM card manufacturers. Smart Media card is also a common micro memory card in the market, once very popular on the MP3 player.

The size of the SM card is 37mm×45mm×0.76mm. Since the SM card itself has no control circuit and is made of plastic (it is divided into many sheets), the SM card is small and very thin, and it was widely used before 2002. Olympus and Fuji's digital cameras. However, since the control circuit of the SIM card is integrated in a digital product (such as a digital camera), the compatibility of the digital camera is easily affected.