Whats the difference between all the storage mediums?
CompactFlash (CF) cards are the cheapest since they’ve been around since 1994 and both digital cameras and PDAs use them. CompactFlash cards are designed with flash technology, a non-volatile storage solution that does not require a battery to retain data indefinitely. CompactFlash storage products are solid state, meaning they contain no moving parts, and thus are immune to damage from movement, vibration and etc. (conventional magnetic disk drives used in computers don’t like being bounced: they may be suffer damage, resulting in data loss). They are quite fast, transferring data on a 16 bit data bus (the more data lines, the faster the transfer). Pocket PCs, Handheld PCs and the HandEra Palm OS PDA have CF card slots. You can get CF cards up to 1 gig, with a 4 gig model looming on the horizon. These two larger capacities come in a type II card. Type I cards are thinner (and the HP Jornada, for some unknown reason still comes with only a type I card slot). Type two cards are about tw
