flash memory vs non flash memory
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Honestly, I do not believe I can add anything not already stated by Perry Woods's answer
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I assume you mean the difference between "Flash" memory and the kind of memory in your computer called RAM. Flash memory actually has a memory. When you save information to it, it retains the information without having to keep the chip powered up. The kind of memory you use in your computer requires power in order to remember. Remove the power, and the chip loses is's memory, that's why your computer has a Hard drive. To put it another way, Flash memory serves the same function as your hard drive does. Read Only Memory forgets when you turn off your compuer. Your Hard Drive or Flash memory retain the information. Flash memory is faster because, unlike a Hard drive, it is all electronic and does not depend on mechanical parts which have to move in order to retrieve the information that is stored. That SD card is flash memory, there are SSD hard drives for your computer that also contain flash memory as do USB memory drives. Hope that helps and doesn't confuse you more. PS the flash memory in those SD cards is teriffic for carrying your work with you so you can access it from any computer you have access to.
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Please look up DRAM exchange. The cost of the chips used to make this products fluctuates. This caused pricing to differ. Cost price on an item purchased from a manufacture changes on a daily basis. It is the nature of flash I regret. A factor outside of all sellers.
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I think its the fastest CF card you can get, its 800 Mbs per second. whereas Sandisks are only a fraction of this speed
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that is generally depicted by the quality of the flash device you are using. i have used a patriot usb that shows no serious speed improvement over usb2.0, and i have a Kingston that is faster than any usb flash ive seen. this card has been stable, reliable, and quite fast during my usage. (use at work in IT environment daily)
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I don't use the memory function beyond current need, so I can't answer that question. Sorry.
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Here are the differences. BP3: - 24nm Toshiba Toggle-Mode NAND Flash - In addition to SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III) compatible with SATA 1.5G/s (SATA I) AND SATA 3Gb/s (SATA II) - No S.M.A.R.T. support - Max Write speed 530MB/sec - No RAID support BP4: - 19nm Toshiba Type B Toggle NAND Flash - In addition to SATA 6Gb/s (SATA III) compatible with SATA 3Gb/s (SATA II) ONLY - S.M.A.R.T. support - Max Write speed 430MB/sec - RAID support Sources: http://mydigitalssd.com/msata-ssd.php#50mm-bp3-msata-ssd http://mydigitalssd.com/msata-ssd.php#50mm-bp4-msata-ssd
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In my 5D MK3 I use 32GB UDMA 7 Compact Flash and 32GB SDHC. There are slots for both, and a control option to choose which drive you wish to write to. CF has the faster transfer rate.
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Sure, both they work. The only difference is that the first memory card is faster than the second one to memorize the shoot info.
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I use a memory card or flash drive. There is not a way to store photos without a memory card or flashdrive
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Yes, it realy is 500GB. It is this capacity because it uses that extra space for additional wear leveling. This is known as over provisioning. The extra space needed for over provisioning on this drive is necessary because it is triple level cell technology. Because of this, the flash actually has less endurance than the generation before it. With the proper wear leveling though, this is compensated for, and the drive is designed to last for quite some time. If you are a heavy user (meaning professional video editing, or any other use case where you are writing more than 10GB a day everyday), you should get the pro line anyway, as that is still multi level cell, and has greater endurance. But if you do that kind of heavy work, you should probably be getting an enterprise grade drive anyway with single level cell technology. So yes, this drive is genuine and it is fantastic. It is actually close to one of the fastest drives on the market, and the only that I know of that is optimized for larger capacities. Most other brands (particularly LSISandforce drives) are designed to be fastest at ~256GB, so if you want a large drive that doesn't suffer because of it's size, this is it. Edit: BTW, there are some non-insightful posts below claiming this is because it is what you get after formatting. Know that formatting will always use some of the storage and you will end up with slightly less. But in this case, it will be actually lower than the 500GB as 500GB is what it would be raw, not after formatting. My 250GB Sansung 840 came out to about 233GB. This is also partially because, for whatever reason, the solid state world measures in Gibibytes (GiB) or 1000MiB, while the rest of the storage/computer world (except for the silly apple world) measures in Gigabytes(GB) of 1024MB.
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Sandisk is remarkably bad for info. I know that the Titanium series is faster than the regular Micro, coming in at 15MB/s read speed & 9MB/s write speed. I seem to recall that the Micro is closer to 10MB read and 6MB write.
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You can use a maximum of 32 GB of memory. They told me to buy a class 10, which has a faster write speed. Be sure the card is seated completely in the slot. I realistically don't think that any SD card would make it say no SD card unless it's more than 32 GB. Based on my experience, I don't believe your problems are going to end there. You will most likely end up returning it. If you do, remember to remove your SD card. Some people forget to do that.
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9-11 years if you write 50 Gigabytes of data to it everyday :)Don't worry about reading data from it, flash devices (like an SSD) have basically an infinite number of read cycles. Hope this helped!
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Basically they mean the same thing. SSD is a solid state drive, meaning no moving parts like a disk drive. Flash storage usually refers to a removable medium like a usb drive or an SD card. On websites I see them used interchangeably.
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The nano's are more reliable than the Classic versions. My old 60GB failed 3 times over the course of 4yrs while my 2nd gen Nano has never failed and I've had it for 3yrs. I have this 120GB Classic now though and it's been going strong for 6 months.
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When i bought the memories the cost of 16gb was cheaper than the single memory of 8gb x 2 units. There are not more reasons
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The nano's are more reliable than the Classic versions. My old 60GB failed 3 times over the course of 4yrs while my 2nd gen Nano has never failed and I've had it for 3yrs.I have this 120GB Classic now though and it's been going strong for 6 months.