Fujifulm Memory Cards


Fujifilm Memory Cards
Fujifilm 16gb xD-Picture Card™The xD-Picture Card™ is one of the only memory card formats that was designed specifically for digital cameras. It is one of the smallest, most durable and reliable cards available. The xD-Picture Card™ is designed to be used primarily with Fujifilm and Olympus digital devices. Type-M / M-Plus cards have been developed to allow you to store even more images and allow faster read and write times.  Buy Fujifilm Memory here or Get Fujifilm Memory here

  xD-Picture Card®
  Fujifilm 128 MB XD Picture Card Buy new: $42.99
   
  SD Flash Card Size (SDHC)
Please verify that your device such as cellular phone or digital camera supports SDHC cards. SDHC cards are not compatible with standard SD host devices and card readers, and will only work on SDHC host devices.
  Fujifilm 16GB SD-HC Memory Card Buy new: $56.19
  Fujifilm 8 GB Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) Class 6 Flash Memory Card Buy new: $30.71
  Fujifilm 4 GB Class 6 SDHC Flash Memory Card Buy new: $11.71
  Fujifilm 2 GB SD Flash Memory Card Buy new: $6.99

Speeds

Fujifilm's new xD-Picture Card is the ultimate solution for the exciting new generation of Digital Camera Review by Gene Wrights. xD-Picture Card is the smallest, lightest flash memory card available today, yet it offers the fast read/write speed and high capacity that today's newest products require.

SecureDigital
There are different speeds of SD card available. The official unit of measurement is the Speed Class Rating; an older unit of measurement is the × rating.

Speed Class Rating

The Speed Class Rating is the official unit of speed measurement for SD Cards, defined by the SD Association. It is equal to 8 Mbit/s, and it measures the minimum write speeds based on "the best fragmented state where no memory unit is occupied

The following are the ratings of some currently available cards:

  • Class 2: 16 Mbit/s (2 MB/s)
  • Class 4: 32 Mbit/s (4 MB/s)
  • Class 6: 48 Mbit/s (6 MB/s)
  • Class 10: 80 Mbit/s (10 MB/s)
Even though the class ratings are defined by a governing body, like × speed ratings, class speed ratings are quoted by the manufacturers but unverified by any independent evaluation process.

Important differences between the Speed Class and the traditional CD-ROM drive speed measurement ("×" speed ratings) are:

  • 1. the ability of the host device to query the SD card for the speed class and determine the best location to store data that meets the performance required
  • 2. class speed defines the minimum transfer speed.
    • Since the class rating is readable by devices, they can issue a warning to the user if the inserted card's reported rating falls below the application's minimum requirement.
On 21 May 2009, Panasonic announced new class 10 SDHC cards, claiming that this new class is "part of SD Card Specification Ver.3.0". Toshiba also announced cards based on the new 3.0 spec As of December 2009, the SD Association's Web site does not include information on this new class or new specification.

× rating

The × rating is a unit of measurement equal to 1.2 Mbit/s. It is derived from the standard CD-ROM drive speed of 1.2 Mbit/s. Basic cards transfer data up to six times (6×) the data rate of the standard CD-ROM speed (7.2 Mbit/s vs 1.2 Mbit/s). The 2.0 specification defines speeds up to 200×, but unlike the class rating system, does not mandate that x-ratings measure the card's sustained write-speed. For most cards, the maximum read speed is typical faster than its maximum write speed, leading some manufacturers to use read-speed as the ×-rating measurement. Other vendors, such as (Kingston, use write-speed.[ This table lists common ratings and minimum transfer rates.
Rating Write Speed
(Mbit/s)		 SD Class
6× 7.2  
10× 12.0  
13× 16.0 2
26× 32.0 4
32× 38.4 5
40× 48.0 6
66× 80.0 10
100× 120.0 15
133× 160.0 20
150× 180.0 22
200× 240.0 30
266× 320.0 40
300× 360.0 45

 

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