SD Now Top Memory Card Format

Ed Hardy · 12-20-2003, 12:40 PM

The SecureDigital format has passed CompactFlash cards to take the top position in market share among memory cards.

Read more at http://www.brighthand.com/article/SD...ry_Card_Format

imported_orol · 12-20-2003, 04:13 PM

hm I'm surprised that the fight among this three major memory card players is so tight

and what really surprised me is the position of memory stick, especially taking into account that MS is solely owned by sony and manufactured only by sony, lexar & sandisk (basically ..). I guess Sony made a god damn good business

becuase actually only sony produces producs that support MS. there aren't many companies producing ms capable product

flextime · 12-20-2003, 08:47 PM

Actually... Other than Sony, Samsung... yes Samsung has licensed the MemStick format... and they will be releasing Memstick capable products soon, or so I heard. Other than that Acer has licensed the Memstick format too. Most of their PC's come with a Memory Stick slot, as do their rare PDA's.

imported_fil · 12-20-2003, 10:57 PM

What's interesting is that I trust Compact Flash as a reliable and error-free technology, safe enough to store my most precious data.

While I do not trust Secure Digital with my data. I trust it as much as I do an unreliable floppy disk.

I guess form-factor wins--smaller and thinner.

I hope that more reliability is added to the SD format.

J.A.R. · 12-21-2003, 10:41 AM

It's really no suprise, seeing as how almos all the PPC's in todays market can only take SD, before some adapter is put on the device, which costs more money. I personally want to get my product, open it and away I go, not have to worry about an adapter, for more money, then get the storage card of choice, more money again. If all the PPC's would put both card slots in there machines, then that would really be interesting to see who the fore front winner would be. Smaller is not necessarily better. It would also help if they used more than one format in all the other card usders, like cameras, video recorders etc.

InfoScape · 12-22-2003, 10:55 AM

I agree with fil.

The CompactFlash format is still faster, more reliable and more affordable. SD technology is succeeding for the same illogical reasoning that allows HP's brilliant marketing stratergies to con the market into believing that if you offer as many models as possible - and still don't allow the user to operate their PPC with one hand (no thumb wheel) - you can still show a massive profit. Microsoft does the same thing with their clunky, over-bloated operating systems and Office suites.

The bottom line is how well you market a product, rather than how good the product actually is! Don't be fooled - 90% of this sort of hype is snake oil! What we will end up with is more expensive CF cards and cheaper but lower performance SDs.

BTW: Whatever happend to the "Compact" CompactFlash format?

Paul P · 12-22-2003, 01:41 PM

CF just doesn't fit into the future plans to make electronics smaller and more compact. The usefulness of CF, other than its storage capacities increasing at a greater rate, is fading fast. It is easier to integrate technologies into devices rather than having them in the form of bulky cards.

In addition, I would say that only a minority of people experience reliability problems with SD cards. Then again, same can be said for CF.

k2stingray · 12-22-2003, 02:53 PM

I agree with J.A.R. If SD is so great, then let's let it compete directly with CF & see what user's think.

Unfortunately PPC manufacturer's seem insistant on raming SD down user's throats regardless of what some people really want.

I cursed the day, that zip drives took over as dominant file sharing medium for laptops. This meant that you had to have a floppy drive and a zip drive to be able to get files from most people. The LS-120 drive would have been so much a better solution - one drive for forward and backward compatibility.

The same is not going to happen in PPC world. You will need an SD to CF adapater if you want to transfer files between the great majority of PPC users. Guys that's the price you pay for progress, but hey look at ALL that extra space we'll now have in our devices.

imported_fil · 12-22-2003, 05:17 PM

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Originally posted by Paul P
CF just doesn't fit into the future plans to make electronics smaller and more compact. The usefulness of CF, other than its storage capacities increasing at a greater rate, is fading fast. It is easier to integrate technologies into devices rather than having them in the form of bulky cards.

In addition, I would say that only a minority of people experience reliability problems with SD cards. Then again, same can be said for CF.

I have a Socket SD Wifi card and it won't connect to APs that my 3-CF Wifi and 2-PCMCIA Wifi cards connect to. Many Sandisk folks are also reporting the same issues.

On my 2215, the SD card disappears every so often and many other folks have commented on the 2215 SD memory card vanishing. I've also read through 4155 posts SD memory card posts and they also seem to be having similar disappearing issues.

I'm for smaller and comparable technology, but SD cards (memory and Wifi) in general seem to be very flakey.

Paul P · 12-22-2003, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by fil
I have a Socket SD Wifi card and it won't connect to APs that my 3-CF Wifi and 2-PCMCIA Wifi cards connect to. Many Sandisk folks are also reporting the same issues.

On my 2215, the SD card disappears every so often and many other folks have commented on the 2215 SD memory card vanishing. I've also read through 4155 posts SD memory card posts and they also seem to be having similar disappearing issues.

I'm for smaller and comparable technology, but SD cards (memory and Wifi) in general seem to be very flakey.

Do we know for sure that this is a hardware and not software related issue? Does Toshiba have the same problem? Palm T3 corrupted Panasonic SD cards period. So these problems may be caused in part by poor software.