I have been having a short discussion re storage media with Brian on the LRCX thread. It is better brought here. There are people here better able to help Brian than I. Would someone please be so kind.
I am giving Brian a link to this post to get him started.
Brian: I just got my Diamond Rio MP3 player and am now in the market for a 2 megapixel+ digital camera. After that, perhaps if there is money left over a Dreamcast may well be in the cards:-)
Me: Brian, make sure you get a camera that takes SNDK's CompactFlash (CF) cards. Besides being one of my favorites companies, their cards are becoming the flash standard and will work in your MP3 player.
Brian: I am currently leaning towards the Olympus Camedia cameras. I am not certain if they use SNDK for their flash memory, but the storage market for digital cameras is so segmented with varying media storage types, I look forward to the day when flash memory will be interchangable not only among digital cameras, but also along different product lines.
Me: I know the new Olympus models have both SmartMedia and CF slots. After only supporting SmartMedia, Olympus is conceding that CF is the future. The market really isn't segmented. There are 3 choices, CF, SmartMedia, and Sony's Memory stick. SmartMedia is dying, as CF is rapidly becoming the defacto standard. Sony kept Memory stick proprietary, but it was becoming another BetaMax versus VHS. Too late, they recently licensed it to other mfgrs. I think that SNDK has won this war.
Brian: There are others; first to come to mind is Sony's Mavica with the use of floppies for storage. |
