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Digital Media Guide
Portable digital media for computers, digital cameras, and other devices
Kingston
®
, the world' s leading independent manufacturer of memory products, sells a
broad range of flash cards and USB flash drives (collectively called flash storage
devices) that employ flash memory chips for storage as well as ultra-portable PC Card
hard drives. This Digital Media Technical Guide' s purpose is to explain the various
technologies and digital media offerings that are available.
Note: Due to flash technology changes, specifications listed in this document are
.
subject to change without notice
kingston.com/flash
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- Page 1 Digital Media Guide Portable digital media for computers, digital cameras, and other devices Kingston ® , the world’ s leading independent manufacturer of memory products, sells a broad range of flash cards and USB flash drives (collectively called flash storage devices) that employ flash memory chips for storage as well as ultra-portable PC Card hard drives.
- Page 2 Formatting includes the following operations: 1.Testing each memory cell in the flash storage device. 2.Identifying all defective cells and taking steps to ensure that no data will be written FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY MP3 players (e.g., handheld scanners) to or read from a defective cell.
- Page 3 • Digital Media Reader-Writer Five-Year Warranty: Kingston’ s line of digital media • Solid State: Flash storage devices, as semiconductor storage devices, have no FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY lifetime. Therefore, some cells are held in reserve to replace any memory cells that may fail over time.
- Page 4 1* Toshiba press release, “Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. Releases Performance Research on MLC NAND Flash Memory for Consumer Applications,” May 10, 2004 FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY transported. Convenience is an important criterion, especially for consumer and corporate applications. device types also include Error Correction Code (ECC) checking to detect single- bit errors.
- Page 5 DRAM memory is lost; however, when a flash storage device is removed from a digital camera, all data FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY more than 10,000 insertions.
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Page 6: Nor Flash Memory
NAND Flash memory is commonly found in solid-state hard drives, audio and video digital media devices, television set-top boxes, digital cameras and other devices where data is generally written or read sequentially. FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY NOR Flash High-speed Access... - Page 7 NAND and NOR Flash memory chips typically store one (1) bit value (a ‘0’ or a ‘1’) in each cell. In multi-level flash technologies, three (3) or more values are stored into each cell. FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY kingston.com/flash C O M M I T T E D TO...
- Page 8 • The Flash storage device’s controller: With the exception of SmartMedia, today’ s • The host device to which the Flash storage device is connected to: If the host FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY high-speed and more expensive Single-Level Cell (SLC) flash chips, and the standard speed and more affordable Multi-Level Cell (MLC) or Multi-Bit Cell (MBC) flash chips.
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Page 9: Usb Flash Drives
Kingston offers standard USB flash drives (DataTraveler) as well as a higher- performance DataTraveler Hi-Speed USB flash drive, DataTraveler 2.0. The DataTraveler 2.0 also supports password-protected partitioning for improved security. DATATRAVELER: FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY INTERFACE FLASH TYPE VOLTAGE USB 2.0... -
Page 10: Compactflash (Cf) Cards
MMC cards (if the host device is not strictly limited to SD media for data security reasons). However, devices exclusively designed for MMC cards will not support the thicker SD cards at this time. FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY INTERFACE FLASH TYPE... -
Page 11: Multimediacard (Mmc)
(such as a digital camera or MP3 player), and without any additional drain on its batteries. FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY INTERFACE FLASH TYPE... - Page 12 • DataPak Three-Year Warranty: Kingston’ s line of DataPak storage solutions come • High-Performance: The DataPak is a miniature hard drive rotating at 3,990 RPM. It FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY ™ is a removable, high-capacity PC Card Type II compliant hard with a three-year warranty from defects in material and workmanship.
- Page 13 2.0 specification includes the USB 1.1 speeds for backward-compatibility reasons. To understand what affects a flash card’ s performance, the following factors need to be considered: FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY kingston.com/flash C O M M I T T E D TO...
- Page 14 FLASH MEMORY KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY © 2004 Kingston Technology Company, Inc. 17600 Newhope Street, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 USA (714) 435-2600 Fax (714) 435-2699 All rights reserved. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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