The memory card is a small electronic device that comes with and without adapter and are capable of storing huge electronic data files. These cards play a crucial role in recording and storing the precious moments of an individual’s life. Basically cameras have some internal memories as well. But this space is not enough to store high definition images and videos. A normal digital camera is usually compatible with just one memory card slot. Micro SD cards are ultra compact size. But most of the entry level digital cameras, DSLRs, ILCs usually use the normal SD (Secure Digital) cards. Most of the midrange and professional DSLRs are using compact flash cards. These cameras generally have one usual SD card slot with another backup card slot.

There are many types of camera memory cards. They are usually classified into 9 categories. Class 2 memory cards to card 10 memory cards. If standard photos or shooting videos are taken occasionally, class 2 to class 6 memory cards are more than sufficient. But in case of shooting high definition professional photos and videos one has to use class 6 to class 10 memory cards of a reputed brand. Obviously as one goes higher in storage capacity, the card becomes more expensive. Class 2 memory cards generally offer 2MBPS speed and the class 10 memory cards offer up to 15MBPS of speed. On the other hand the CF cards provide with extremely high performances. They offer 25MBPS to 322MBPS speed for very fast image and video processing techniques. The CF cards are widely used in professional family photography Perth. Apart from all that, digital cameras also use memory cards like SDXC cards, mini SD cards, UDMA cards etc.

The USB flash drives are one of the biggest gifts of the solid state physics. Flash memory is an electronic non volatile storage space. Flash memory was developed from electronic erasable and programmable read only memory. It is a secondary data storage device that uses this flash memory with the integrated Universal Serial Bus (USB). These devices are also known as pen drives. The USB flash drive offers a huge storage space and up to 256GB flash drives are now widely available. Recently one TB flash drive will also become available in the market. In the year 2000, the first generation flash device came into the market under the brand name IBM and Trek Technology. They offered 8MB storage at that time (five times more than the usual floppy disks). Second generation flash drives are relatively faster. Maximum of the people now uses this sort of device for massive file transferring. USB 3.0 flash drives or third generation flash drives are newest in the market. These devices are compatible with both USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 ports. They offer higher file transfer rate as evaluated to the 2.0 USB

The memory cards, flash drives and the compact flash extreme cards have brought a revolutionary change in electronic storages. Memory cards provide a healthy storage option for mobiles and digital cameras. The memory cards can be attached to computers using Card Readers also. All the reputed computer brands like SanDisk, HP, Sony, Kingston, Toshiba and others are now providing memory cards and flash drives at a descent price. All these products are now extremely affordable.