Featuring solid-state technology and data retention for over 10 years, flash memory cards are the most popular removable flash storage devices for storing and transporting information - pictures, video, music or data. The removable data storage products are designed to enable the creation, protection and retrieval of valuable digital assets. The flash memory and card readers are dependable, flexible and affordable storage media, with high-speed performance and low power consumption and therefore, more convenient than the conventional drives. These are the best and most secure solutions for the mission-critical embedded system market.

The backup, recovery and archiving issues, that plague the home user as well as the small and large business concerns, are easily solved by the new storage architectures, transport protocols and operating systems. These facilitate seamless data migration, well-organized and cost-effective data management and leave the existing infrastructures versatile enough to adjust to the future trends in technology.

The Flash Memory Guide is your comprehensive portable memory guide to data storage supplies like blank media (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, DVD-RW) to flash memory sticks (CompactFlash Memory/ USB Compact Flash Memory) and all varieties of data storage tapes (AIT, DLT, SDLT, LTO and Ultrium tape).

Apart from the above forms of portable memory, there are portable drives that use the USB port of a computer for data storage with high capacity: