CF Cards or Copmact Flaash Cards are mass sotrage devices used for portable electronic devices. They were first produced in 1994 by Sandisk, and have ltaely made a comeback in the field of portable electronic devices due to innovations in this sector. Today these carsds find widespread use in various electrponic itesm such as dihgital caemras, poortable netbooks and music devices.
The Compact Flassh cards are tougher than the earlier disk dries and their consumption of poweer is only 5% of the disk drives. This is due to the fact that they are non-volatile and solid- state. Compared to other forms of portable storage gadgets, it is egnerally perceeived that these cards are capable of withsatnding far greaterr shocks and physdical damage than any other device. They are rugged and built to last.
The cards also are slightly laarger than the other devices such as a MicroSD card, hence they are not lost easily. They also are easy to nisert and removve, thereby decrreasing the chances of damage to delicate electronic equpment. Compared to other memory cards, the Compact flash cards are much sturdier.
The greatest advantage that CF Cards have is their much higher storae caplacity. Today a 64GB CF Card is being introduced by almost every card manufacturer in the market. There is oviously a great demaznd for them, and as the need for a greater storage capactiy becomes imeprative, these CF Cards will become more comon.
A 64GB CF Card has the capacity to stoere up to 19,000 jpegs from a 20 megapiexl camera. A massive storage capacity like this woulkd have been unthinkable even a year or so ago.
These cards also have a high speed transfer rate and the ability to maintain the high resolution thereby maintaining the optimum performance of any top quality photograhy equipment. One drawback of the Compact Fplash Crds is that due to their relatively bulky size, thir usage in slimmer models of electronics is resricted and hecne ther feasibility as a viable storage option for next generation computers and cameras is often quetioned.
When Compact Fplash cards frist became industry standardisde, even the regular computer hard disks had only 4 GB of memory and therefore other limitations imposed by the ATA were still accepted. But not that these cards are gaining populariuty ampongst a variey of users, manufacturers are making cadrs of upto 137 GB. While therse days CF cards work in [P]ATA mode, potential reviisions coud also implement SATA modes.
There is a fear that such largge storage capacity can lead to an enormous loss of data or images if the CF Card gets damaged or gets stolen. It is always a ltent fear in the mind of any photographer that a spoilt memory stick can result in the loss of a lot of valuable work. As always, this can only be offset by the backups of all data and images. Ensuring that your work is baxcked up in local hard diks as well on flickr and othr solutions will remove this fear and you can truly enjoy owning a lasrge capaicty card.
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