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Portable media has put pictures, videos, movies, and other files on the move in the 21st century. After the SD card was unleashed, one fact became clear: although it was a marvelous advent, it was still too large for portable electronics. And so the miniSD format was made suitable to supplement various devices' built-in memory. For instance, some MP3 players may come with an expandable memory slot, upgrading it from 512MB to 2GB. In terms of its size, a miniSD memory card has a clear advantage, because it's nearly half the size of SD cards. Measuring just 20x21.5x1.4mm, it was designed elegantly, for use in medium-sized handheld devices like voice recorders, cameras and video recorders.

When the SD Association established the miniSD brand in 2003, little could be predicted about its success. There was a demand for smaller memory chips, but would miniSD win? Because the SD Association had previous experience in such non-volatile flash media formats, launching it wasn't a problem; the Association already had connections with large companies that manufactured various SD-compatible electronics, which quickly adapted to miniSD memory cards. The main advantage of miniSD over SD was its size, and it even lacked a write protect switch, but technologically they were nearly identical; fears of redundancy made room for doubt in its success. The result? Today, a tiny, 32GB miniSD memory card can fit over 545 hours of 128Kbps music on it.

The card's SD socket is an electro-mechanical adapter with 11 pins and a narrow, short, thin form. All cards support 1-bit mode, and some support 4-bit mode; 8-bit mode is not available with miniSD cards. Data transfer is done at 100Mbit/sec and 25Mbit/sec in SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface) bus. Access control can be managed via DRM, however the functionality for user encryption wasn't implemented. MiniSD is open-source compatible. A miniSD card works at 2.7-3.6V of electricity; regular ones come in various capacities not exceeding 2GB, and High Capacity miniSD memory cards are available between 4 and 32GB. You can fit two full feature, high-definition movies on a 32GB miniSD. Even a 2GB card can fit over 700 10MP high quality photos! Besides expanding your memory capabilities, a device that supports miniSD offers you quicker speeds and higher data transfer rates than typical built-in flash memory.

The format is now 10 years old; at the 2010 CES, SD celebrated its anniversary, and released the following statement that outlines their plans for the future:

"With an estimated 2.5 billion SD memory cards shipped, SD is now the worldleading de facto interface of removable media. During the past 10 years, the SD Association shepherded SD technology from an upstart in the then-highly fragmented removable media market to a leader with nearly 80 percent market share today. The first SD memory cards offered a then-amazing 8 megabytes of storage capacity in the size of a postage stamp, while the latest specification, SDXC, will enter the market at 64 GB, an 8,000 times capacity increase over the first SD memory cards, and scaling up to 2 terabytes of storage in capacity."

The use of miniSD quickly spread to devices like GPS navigators, printers, electronic book readers, DVRs, and even video game systems. Because it was essentially the same thing as SD, a simple adapter turns any miniSD into a regular SD card. Before buying an electronic device that allows you to expand the memory with a memory card, make sure it's an SD, a miniSD, or a microSD card; other formats include CompactFlash and Memory Stick, but those cards are bulkier in size. If you already have a camera, a camcorder, a digital voice recorder, or another device with a memory card, and you're not sure what format it is, consult with your manual or look it up online.

Article Written By: Jason Mills, Techdna.co.uk
Article Source: http://news.techdna.co.uk/2010/01/mini-sd-memory-cards/

What’s in a Memory Card?

Let's face it, we stopped storing things the old fashioned way - you know papers, file folders, photo albums etc. a long time ago. At least twenty years! Now a days we store all that in a much better and smaller way! We store it in our digital camera memory, and of course most of us have the sdhc memory cards now. We store it on our external hard drives, or our M2 memory cards. We store it on our Micro-SD Memory Cards. We live for the latest and greatest revolution in the memory stick evolution. We wait with baited breath to hear if our memory card has an upgrade so we can print faster or store more.

What's funny about our techno revolution is that we truly believe we cannot live without these things. What's sad about this same techno revolution is that if our memory stick goes on the Fritz, we go into massive loss and mourning. We mourn the loss of the memory stick, sure. But we also mourn the potential loss of anything we had not yet downloaded. 

Twenty years ago the concept of losing all our phone numbers because the memory card went bad was simply unheard of. We all had our rolodexes on our desks and happily flitted through those huge cardboard cards to find just the right number. We mourned the loss of a card perhaps, but we never really worried about it. We could always write another card. 

Now we just gotta have a new memory card, or we gotta have a new memory stick - or sometimes we gotta have both. No matter, if we don't have memory sticks or memory cards, we can't survive. 

When we shop, we don't look for any old memory stick, we gotta have just the right one. Maybe we are out looking for Micro-SD Memory Cards, or sdhc emmory cards. Maybe we are out to get an M2 memory card. You can bet, we won't give up until we find it. We are on a mission. 

Mostly we order our memory cards online. That's the best way ultimately. So easy to type in a search window digital camera memory and surf away. We love it. We are hooked. There's no going back to cameras that use rolls of film, or printers that don't have external slots. There's no buying a second file cabinet, when you can simply get a second external hard drive. We live for techno. We bow to techno. We depend on techno. Down with the Rolodex. Down with the file cabinet. Bring on the latest and greatest in memory cards! 

So What's in a Memory Card? Our lifestyle as we have come to know it.

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How do I remove a memory card that has been wedged into my laptop memory card slot?

I have a Toshiba satellite computer, and about an hour ago, the memory card from my digicam got stuck inside the memory card slot of the computer. Obviously, I have realized that the memory card is too small. Tweezers are too big to get in, and I have tried using a hairpin. The card is at the super back, like half an inch in. Btw, the slot is more like a slit.

I'm desperate, what do I do????

If you can't find smaller tweezers then you could try shaking it out or even if your comfortable with computer hardware opening up your laptop and seeing if you can push it out from the inside. If you're not comfortable with that somewhere like Best Buy or any local computer store would be able to get it out.

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