Talk:Memory card

How do they work?

From an older revision of the page: "(I am not sure here) CompactFlash uses wear levelling while SmartMedia does not have any intelligence built in and presents the raw chip on its external interfaces." Can someone confirm or deny this? -- Schnee 18:07, 5 Jun 2004 (UTC)

" some of these cards incorpor"

WHICH ones?? - Omegatron 02:44, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)

How many times can you write in a memory card?

"in cell-phones and PDA's, the memory card market is highly fragmented"

As far as I can tell, SD/MMC is the format for a strong majority of PDAs, Sony being the most notable exception. - 26 Aug 2005

Not only that, but in amateur cameras, too, the SD/MMC format seems dominant. The stranglehold of CF has been reversed. Some hard figures on this would be nice (e.g., number of cameras sold in a given year according to the memory format they use). This would be useful to know for shopping, due to the network effect. - 12 Dec 2005

SD is most likely the predominant format in amateur digital cameras, however in professional cameras, Compact Flash is generally the preferred memory type due to its robustness and integrity. Mtoreilly 14:49, 1 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

do you know what "ibid" really means? try to look at its wikipedia entry!

"Flash cards have been suggested as a possible replacement for the floppy disk, although USB flash memory drives, which work on almost any computer with a USB port, have been filling this role instead." <- that is based on what? --Fs 07:21, 15 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think is highly questionable that a table, including prices, with direct links to amazon (a commercial entity) is put on the article, it makes me wonder about the true imparciallity of the article's author. In fact, Wikipedia is not a vehicle for online transactions or commercial links. I suggest that column of the table shpuld be removed.

I don't see the reason to mantain that column either, there are alternate columns of more use, like max size available or date of introduction. I'm removing it, revert if you don't agree. --Outlyer 17:55, 6 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Links with referral - commercial intentions?

I just noticed that the portuguese translation of this article contains a link that credits someone with referral bonus (credits)...

I have already changed it. 200.153.242.116 16:34, 20 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GameCube memory card discrepancy

Here is the section about memory cards in the Nintendo GameCube article:

Memory Card 59 (4 Mib), 251 (16 Mib), or 1019 (64 Mib) blocks, with a maximum of 127 files can be stored on a single card (Memory Card 59 bundled with Animal Crossing) - each card requires 5 blocks of system data meaning that the actual size of cards are 64, 256 and 1024 respectively

And here is the same section in this article:

Nintendo GameCube Memory Card (59- (512KB), 251- (2MB) and 1019-block (8MB) versions) This memory is simply a modified SD card.

Note that the GameCube article's sizes are larger. I'm also bringing this up in that article's discussion page. HoCkEy PUCK 19:22, 27 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Note that I have temporarily changed the sizes in this article to the GCN's article. However, I am not certain if this is correct. If someone can verify it, please do so.

Four Megabits is 512 Kilobytes. The only apparent cause for confusion is that one uses Mi and the other uses M as a prefix to mean the same thing. Since both are used in the real world (for better or worse), it isn't clear to me that either should be the preferred form. Forkazoo 00:46, 16 September 2007 (UTC)