WEBVTT 00:00.110 --> 00:06.560 Flash memory cards like flash drives, flash memory cards or memory cards as they are fondly referred 00:06.560 --> 00:07.070 to. 00:07.640 --> 00:14.810 Also use Nand flash memory, which, as we previously learned, is a non-volatile solid state memory. 00:15.200 --> 00:21.830 Unlike USB flash drives, however, these cards do not come with a USB interface and must be used with 00:21.830 --> 00:24.320 either an adapter or memory card reader. 00:24.890 --> 00:31.370 Over the years and decades, we've had several formats of memory cards graced our desktops, laptops, 00:31.370 --> 00:37.310 mobiles and other devices, including cameras, MP3 players and even toys. 00:37.460 --> 00:42.920 Although I'll only cover some of the more popular cards used today, it is important that you are at 00:42.920 --> 00:46.910 least familiar with memory cards and are also able to identify them. 00:47.450 --> 00:51.260 The flash memory card types we will look at are as follows. 00:51.590 --> 00:57.410 Memory Stick Pro Duo Mspd Proprietary Card developed by Sony. 00:57.440 --> 00:58.850 Secure Digital. 00:58.850 --> 01:03.390 SD Secure Digital High Capacity Sdhc two. 01:03.480 --> 01:05.430 232 GB capacity. 01:05.460 --> 01:16.410 Many Sdhc Microsdhc Secure digital extended capacity Sdhc 32GB two TB capacity. 01:16.500 --> 01:20.620 Compact flash cf Multimediacard. 01:20.670 --> 01:21.200 Emmc. 01:22.290 --> 01:23.940 Xd-picture XD. 01:24.240 --> 01:25.410 Smartmedia. 01:25.590 --> 01:28.530 Some of the aforementioned card types. 01:28.530 --> 01:31.980 I've opted to show three from my collection in the following photo. 01:32.010 --> 01:35.430 The card to the left is a Sony memory Stick pro duo. 01:35.460 --> 01:41.490 The card in the middle is an SD card that has a sliding lock to the side used to prevent data from being 01:41.490 --> 01:42.300 overwritten. 01:42.300 --> 01:46.500 And the card to the right is the more common card of today, the micro SD. 01:46.800 --> 01:52.260 I'd like to do a brief comparison of these three cards developed at least a decade apart. 01:52.290 --> 01:59.220 The older Du card is larger with a capacity of two gigabytes, although not seen on the SD card. 01:59.250 --> 02:03.930 Its capacity is four gigabytes and the smallest and newest car to the right. 02:03.960 --> 02:09.330 Micro SD actually has a whopping 64GB of storage capacity. 02:09.780 --> 02:14.010 Have a look at the following photo to see a close up of the micro SD card. 02:14.040 --> 02:22.530 It shows the capacity of 64GB and also the class of the micro SD card class, 1060 four gigabytes of 02:22.530 --> 02:25.260 data on something as small as a fingernail. 02:25.380 --> 02:34.620 Still, micro SD cards are being developed with even larger capacities of 128GB and even 256GB. 02:34.650 --> 02:41.490 The various classes of micro SD cards identify their reads, slash write speeds and suggested uses. 02:41.700 --> 02:45.900 I do suggest getting a class ten C ten micro SD card. 02:45.900 --> 02:53.280 If purchasing one as the C ten is much faster than the other classes two, four and six and supports 02:53.280 --> 02:56.640 constant HD and even 4K video recording. 02:56.700 --> 03:05.100 Classes two, four, six and ten support speeds of up to two MEPs, four MEPs, six MEPs and ten MEPs 03:05.100 --> 03:08.610 respectively, and are known as SD Speed Class. 03:08.820 --> 03:16.410 Class one and Class three are known as the HS speed class and support speeds of up to ten MEPs and 30 03:16.410 --> 03:17.790 maps respectively. 03:17.820 --> 03:25.080 The newer video speed class, which is recommended for HD video in 4K and 8-K, supports much faster 03:25.080 --> 03:25.860 speeds. 03:25.890 --> 03:36.570 The v ten v 30 v 60 and v 90 cards support speeds of up to ten minutes, 30 maps, 60 Mbps and 90 MEPs 03:36.570 --> 03:37.680 respectively. 03:38.100 --> 03:45.030 As mentioned earlier, flash memory cards require card readers which connect to laptops, desktops and 03:45.030 --> 03:47.670 other media players using USB ports. 03:47.700 --> 03:53.960 The following photo shows one of my many card readers which supports compact flash memory Stick, pro 03:53.960 --> 03:58.080 duo, Secure Digital and even the Smartmedia cards. 03:58.440 --> 04:04.770 I'd suggest getting yourself a few USB card readers that support the various card types to easily access 04:04.770 --> 04:08.060 cards, whether for ordinary use or data recovery. 04:08.070 --> 04:16.110 As most newer laptops, desktops and devices may only support SD card slots and USB interfaces here.