FlashRite Flash Media Products

USB Flash Drive

Compact Flash

Secure Digital

MultiMedia Card

Memory Stick

Solid State Drive

USB Flash Drive
Of all the myriad formats available, the USB Flash Drive is by far the most exciting, far reaching implementation of Flash Memory in the portable storage arena. Available in a wide variety of capacities, and infinite possibilities when it comes to physical form factor, the USB Drive combines all the best features of a DVD-R and a portable hard disk, in a tiny, easy to carry, highly robust package. Companies are constantly finding new applications for this technology, from software distribution to marketing presentations to security keys. And FlashRite, with our state-of-the-art equipment, engineering expertise and huge production capacity is the ideal partner to bring your ideas to production.

Compact Flash
CF is the original removable flash memory specification. At 3.3mm thickness (Type 1) and 5mm thickness (Type II) a form factor dictated by the preceding PCMCIA standard, CF is substantially larger than the more modern Flash Storage Card specifications. Nonetheless, CF is still a robust format, in use in kiosk applications, various hardware and medical devices and some consumer electronics. FlashRite both supports CF duplication and supplies CF media.

Secure Digital
Secure Digital (SD) is a flash memory card format developed by Matsushita, SanDisk® and Toshiba in 2000, for use in portable devices such as digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs and GPS units. Today, SD card capacities range from 8 MB to 16 GB. Several companies have announced SD cards with 32 GB. Cards with 4-32 GB are considered high-capacity and conform to the newer SDHC specification. Physically, SD cards are based on the earlier Multi Media Card (MMC) standard, but are designed in such a manner that they cannot be inserted upside down, and tend to be somewhat thicker than the MMC standard.

The mini SD card was announced in 2003 by SanDisk as a physically smaller format for the SD Specification. An even smaller form factor, the Micro SD Card followed, primarily in response to demand from the wireless telephone industry. FlashRite offers extensive support and capacity for all Secure Digital formats, including product selection, sourcing, duplication, labeling and packaging.

MultiMedia Card
The MultiMedia Card (MMC) was developed in 1997 by Siemens and SanDisk as removable storage for portable devices, a kind of next-generation "floppy disk". In spite of being all but replaced at the hardware level by the Secure Digital Format, there is an extensive installed base of MMC-based hardware in existence, and as MMC will very often be compatible with SD slots, products based on the MMC format continue to be available. In 2004 the Reduced Size MMC (RS-MMC) card was released, primarily to support Nokia and Siemens mobile devices. FlashRight can support all MMC requirements.

Memory Stick
Memory Stick is a removable Flash Memory format released by Sony in 1998. Manufactured under license by Lexar™ and SanDisk, Memory Stick is used exclusively in Sony and Sony-Ericsson devices including Sony Digital Cameras, PlayStations and computers. As portable devices have gotten smaller over the years, Sony hasreleased Memory Sticks using smaller physical form factors such as Memory Stick Duo and Memory Stick Micro (M2). FlashRite offers complete support for Memory Stick Duplication in all form factors.

Solid State Drive
A solid state drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. An SSD emulates a hard disk drive, thus easily replacing it in any application. The original usage of the term solid state refers to the use of semiconductor devices rather than electron tubes, but has in this context been adopted to distinguish solid-state electronics from electro- mechanical devices as well. With no moving parts, a solid state drive is more robust, effectively eliminating the risk of mechanical failure, silent, and enjoys reduced seek time and latency by removing mechanical delays associated with hard disk drives.