Store your Data Easily and Safely

Memory cards and sticks are available in several different capacities and dimensions. Different capacity memory storage cards are suited to different data storage applications. Hundreds of millions of Flash storage units are manufactured across the globe year in, year out, with many of these storage devices not being ideal for their intended usage.

Using a little time to assess your data storage requirements prior to making an unwise purchase will permit you to make an informed decision and end up with a better data storage device that is fit for purpose.

Memory Card Types

There are several standard formats that are the most used by the vast majority of manufacturers. The most used are SD in standard, Micro and Mini, USB Flash, and CompactFlash.

The 2 important factors when selecting portable data storage, are the capacity of the stick and the transfer speed. Memory technology moves quite quickly leading to ever greater storage capacity and transfer rate.

The bigger and faster the memory card, the more expensive it tends to be. With the recent exponential surge in the use of mobile devices for gaming and HD videos, storing large files on small convenient storage is now more important than ever before.

Stick Capacity

Currently, at the start of 2014, portable flash drives are on sale up to 256GB and card capacity is anticipated to pass 2 tb by the end of 2020. Cards and sticks are becoming more and more stable and reliable, giving users much more confidence and security than used to be accepted.

Many cards are hot swappable which means that you can remove them from your devices and computers without needing to eject them first. Flash storage drives are also configured to be compatible with both Microsoft and Apple computers, so you can easily back up your data onto your Mac or PC for using at a later date.

Compact Flash

Professional level SLR cameras usually offer several memory card slots and use Compact Flash memory cards (normally the first choice for commercial photographers) and SDxc cards also. For professional photographers, often they only have a split second to preserve a special moment, so they have to be confident that the photos they capture are safe and secure.

Compact Flash cards are one of the most reliable portable storage cards as well as the most trusted. The majority of wedding and marriage photographers elect to use several lesser size cards during such an important shoot in preference to saving all the photographs onto one card.

Doing this, gives them added security because in the worst case scenario, if a data failure happens, they’ll just lose a single portion of their data, rather than all of it.

In spite of the high level of reliability of modern storage devices, it is still sensible to protect your valuable data by saving it like this as it can save you from possible disaster. Due to their compact dimensions, sticks and cards are a really practical method of moving huge amounts of data for either ease of mobility or security.

Small storage devices like these can be carried in a pocket, purse or a wallet, or discreetly consealed to safeguard your most important intellectual property. Flash memory comes in two basic forms, USB based and a range of card drives which each require either a suitable memory card slot or a multicard reader which is connected to a Mac or PC via the USB socket.

The games, cameras or other devices you own or intend to purchase will often dictate which cards you will need.

If you are intending to store documents from your computer then a USB memory stick would be your ideal choice. With the expense of memory drives decreasing, there has never been a better time to invest in newer, faster and larger capacity cards and sticks to store your important data.