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    Digital Media Guide Portable digital media for computers, digital cameras, and other devices kingston.com/flash Kingston ® , the world’ s leading independent manufacturer of memory products, sells a broad range of flash car ds and USB flash drives (collectively called flash storage devices) that employ flash memory chips for storage as well as u[...]

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    COMMITTED T O MEMOR Y Flash Memor y: Empo w ering A New Generation of Flash Storag e De vices T oshiba invented flash memory in the 1980s as a new memor y technology that allowed stored data to be saved even when the memory device was disconnected from its power sour ce. Since then, flash memory technology has evolved into the preferred storage med[...]

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    COMMITTED T O MEMOR Y 3. Reserving some cells to serve as “spares.” Flash memory cells have a long but finite lifetime. Therefore, some cells ar e held in reserve to replace any memory cells that may fail over time. 4. Creating a File Allocation T able (F A T) or other directory . T o enable flash storage devices to conveniently store and acces[...]

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    • Small Ph ysical Size (or Form Factor): Flash storage devices are designed to be easily transported. Convenience is an important criterion, especially for consumer and corporate applications. • High Data Reliability: Flash memory is very reliable and many of the flash storage device types also include Error Corr ection Code (ECC) checking to d[...]

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    • High-Quality Connectors: Kingston’ s flash storage devices have connectors rated for more than 10,000 insertions. • Operating T emperature and Humidity: 0° C ~ 60° C, 5% ~ 95% humidity • High-Capacity: Flash storage devices can pr ovide large storage capacities in a very small form factor . This flexibility makes them ideal for consumer[...]

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    NOR Flash NAND Flash High-speed Access Ye s Ye s Pa ge-Mode Data Access No Y es Random Byte Lev el Access Ye s N o T ypical Uses Cell Phones PD As BIOS Storage for PCs Digital Cameras Networking De vice Memor y MP3 pla yers Solid State Disk Drives Set-T op Boxes Industrial Storage (and pictures) remains saved on the flash storage device. The abilit[...]

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    COMMITTED T O MEMOR Y For example, most digital cameras use NAND-Flash based digital film, as pictures are usually taken and stored sequentially . NAND-Flash is also more ef ficient when pictures are r ead back, as it transfers whole pages of data very quickly . As a sequential storage medium, NAND Flash is ideal for data storage. NAND Flash memory[...]

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    COMMITTED T O MEMOR Y Intel Corporation has introduced NOR StrataFlash™; AMD has intr oduced NOR MirrorBit™ Flash. Other semiconductor manufactur ers also manufacture their own multi-level cell technologies. NAND MLC Flash technologies were intr oduced in late 2002, and Kingston has incorporated MLC Flash memory into its line of standard Flash [...]

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    For details on USB Performance, refer to Appendix A. Some flash memory product manufacturers pr ovide “speed” ratings. However , due to a lack of industry standards, comparing dif ferent flash products may pr ove difficult for consumers. Kingston continuously works closely with global semiconductor and controller manufacturers to ensure that Ki[...]

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    D A T A TRA VELER 2.0: 7.2 COMP A CTFLASH (CF) CARDS CompactFlash, or CF cards, wer e the first small form factor flash cards intr oduced in 1994. CF cards incorporate a contr oller and are about the size of a matchbook. CompactFlash cards incorporate an Integrated Device Electr onics (IDE) interface similar to hard drives and A T A PC Cards. Kings[...]

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    Kingston offers standar d SD cards as well as high-performance Elite Pr o SD cards. 7.4 MUL TIMEDIA CARD (MMC) MultiMediaCards ar e one of the smallest flash cards available, about the size of a postage stamp. They were intr oduced in 1997 and initially used in the mobile phone and pager markets. T oday , they are commonly used in digital cameras, [...]

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    Digital media reader -writers can enable the uploading and downloading of data at higher speeds than a host device is capable of supporting; for example, a USB reader - writer will be much faster than a host device (such as a digital camera) using a serial interface. If a host device does not support high-speed transfers, the faster reader - writer[...]

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    • High Capacity: Up to 5 GB (5,000,000,000 bytes) of uncompressed storage capacity in a compact form-factor . Note that some of the listed capacity is used for formatting and other functions and thus is not available for data storage. • Operating Systems Compatibility: Compatible with PC and Macintosh operating systems. The DataPak also support[...]

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    FLASH MEMOR Y KINGST ON TECHNOLOGY 14 kingston.com/flash COMMITTED T O MEMOR Y © 2004 Kingston T echnology Company , Inc. 17600 Newhope Street, Fountain V alley , CA 92708 USA (714) 435-2600 Fax (714) 435-2699 Printed in the USA MKF-403.6 All rights reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the pr operty of their respective owners. In[...]