Posted by admin in Compact Flash is supposed to be a mass storage device format utilized in portable electronic devices. Typically Compact Flash makes use of flash memory in a standardized enclosure. The physical format is now made use in different devices. Compact Flash has become well-liked storage medium for digital cameras. Recently, it has been widely swapped by smaller cards on the customer end, yet it is still preferred format for D-SLR cameras, for better capacity and reliability. Basically, two main subdivisions of CF cards Type I (3.3mm thick) and the thicker version Type II (CF2) cards (5 mm thick). CompactFlash is one among the most oldest formats and has held to a niche in the professional camera market. It has the advantage of both low cost and larger memory size ratio than other available formats. These can used directly in a PC card slot with the help of a plug adapter, used as an ATA or PCMCIA storage device with the help of passive adapter or with a reader or connected to different other types of ports like USB or FireWire. The newer card types are smaller; they can be used directly in a CF card slot with the adapter. Some formats which can be used like this consists of SD/MMC, Memory Stick Duo, XD-Picture Card in a Type I slot, and Smart Media in a Type II slot, as of 2005. Some multi-card readers use CF for I/O as well. Despite the format Flash Card can take only a limited number of erase/write cycles to a specific block before the block can be written any longer.
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