{"id":549093,"date":"2006-06-06T18:01:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-06T18:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549093-flash-memory-a-key-element-in-digital-lifestyle-technology.html"},"modified":"2006-06-06T18:01:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-06T18:01:33","slug":"flash-memory-a-key-element-in-digital-lifestyle-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549093-flash-memory-a-key-element-in-digital-lifestyle-technology.html","title":{"rendered":"Flash memory &#8211; a key element in digital lifestyle technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Flash memory as an enabler of personal data storage is established within the digital lifestyle market, and is available to the consumer through a growing number of flash memory storage devices.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Innovation and development is taking place in a big way within digital imaging, personal data storage, digital audio &amp; visual, mobile phones and gaming markets. Mobile and wireless technology and digital gadgets now permeate the information and communication technology market. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Technology vendors and service providers target their offering to a wide market, from the mobile professional who depends on product and infrastructure to meet everyday work requirements, right through to the average student, who records lectures, takes photos and swaps MP3 files between classes. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>It is a broad market.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>However, the one common requirement from all users, aside from affordability, is the capacity of the product to store material. People want to be able to store and access, manipulate and communicate high volumes of data, files that are usually quite large and incorporate text, video clips, images and voice. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>They also want to do this on the move and not have to rely on access to infrastructure. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Flash memory is fast gaining popularity as a reliable, effective means of storing material. In addition to the convenience in size, attractive presentation, another advantage of this form of memory is that it is non-volatile or solid state memory. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>This means it has no moving parts, which is a key benefit for the mobile user, because it eliminates any influence that movement may have on the device. Let us be honest \u2013 nobody enjoys listening to music that jumps every now and again, or tracks that stop and start at the slightest bump or movement. <br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Flash memory is also more cost-effective and practical from a power drainage point of view. Traditional non-flash memory or hard disk drives are generally considered faster than flash in terms of read and write speed, but use a great deal more power and tend to drain power quickly.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>It is fair to say that flash memory is designed to complement and enhance the mobile and wireless space and will continue to play a significant role in its development going forward.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=45251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mention the terms &#8216;flash memory&#8217; or &#8216;flash data storage&#8217; to people and it is clear there is, at least, some appreciation of what these concepts mean, says Gary Shap, MD of Tudor Photographic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}