SmartMedia
Sign in to saveSmartMedia is an obsolete flash memory card standard owned by Toshiba, with capacities ranging from 0.5 MB to 128 MB. The format mostly saw application in the early 2000s in digital cameras and audio production. SmartMedia memory cards are no longer manufactured.
Key facts
- Media.name
- SmartMedia
- Media.logo
- SmartMedia logo transparent.png
- Media.image
- 200px|
- Media.type
- Memory card
- Media.capacity
- up to 128 MB
- Media.owner
- Toshiba
- Media.dimensions
- 45.0 × 37.0 × 0.76 mm
- Media.weight
- 1.8 g
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15 sectionsContents
- History
- Structure
- Use
- Properties
- Capacity
- Voltages
- Variant formats
- Copy protection
- Write protection
- Format errors and data loss
- Specifications
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- External links
SmartMedia is an obsolete flash memory card standard owned by Toshiba, with capacities ranging from 0.5 MB to 128 MB. The format mostly saw application in the early 2000s in digital cameras and audio production. SmartMedia memory cards are no longer manufactured.
==History== The SmartMedia format was launched in the summer of 1995 to compete with the MiniCard, CompactFlash, and PC Card formats. Although memory cards are nowadays associated with digital cameras, digital audio players, PDAs, and similar devices, SmartMedia was pitched as a successor to the computer floppy disk. Indeed, the format was originally named Solid State Floppy Disk Card (SSFDC), and the physical design resembles a miniature 3.5" floppy disk. The SSFDC forum, a consortium aiming to promote SSFDC as an industry standard, was founded in April 1996, consisting of 37 initial members.