The Perks of Having Speed Rated or High Speed Memory Cards

With the availability of long array of types of memory cards, it becomes difficult for a user to choose the one that matches his/her type of photography and other requirements.

In such dilemma selecting speed-rated cards can be a better choice. These cards increase the read write speed of your digital camera and thus enhance its overall performance. Moreover, these cards are the best choice for professional photographers, who perform sequence photography, capture videos, and click photos in succession.

For different purposes different speed-rated card are available. Speed of memory cards are defined by there class. These cards are available in market in the class ranging from 2 to 10. Class 2 SD cards are slowest and class 10 memory cards are fastest.

Some of the perks offered by high speed cards are:

• High Speed Digital Camera: The speed rating of these cards means that they are fast at least to their stated speed. The read and write operations of these cards are faster than a normal card and hence they make your normal digital camera a high speed camera.

That means with these cards your camera will write photos on the card faster and offer improved download or photo transfer rate as well. Generally the speed rating of these cards is represented by some numberX, where ‘X’ represents the data transfer rate. For example 1x represents that your card can perform transfer at the rate of 150KiloBytes (KB) per second.

• Larger Storage Capacity: By using a high-speed card, you will fell that you do not require frequent card changing. That means the data storage capacity of these cards is also high, and with the improvement in the time that card takes to process a photo also makes it the best choice for those who need fast-paced photography.

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• Time Saving: The reduced post production time of speed-rated cards saves your lots of time as you require significantly less time in transferring and uploading the photos stored in them. This feature gives sufficient time to a professional photographer for editing a photograph, performing other assignments, and does some other activities related to his/her task.

• Security of Stored Data: Photos mean a lot to you whether you are a professional photographer or non-professional one. With memory cards the security of your precious data is always at the verge of loss, but if you use speed-rated cards, then you can ensure it.

Speed-rated cards are less prone to corruption and hence do not cause data loss easily. Therefore, with them you can be relaxed as your photos are at safe location. Moreover, the quality of the image is also not deteriorated with these memory cards.

Therefore, above mentioned are the benefits of having speed-rated memory cards in your arsenal, whether you are a professional photographer or a seasoned one. With all above mentioned feature like enhancing the in-built functionalities of your camera, a speed-rated card also ensures the security of your photos stored in it.

However, despite that, if in case you encounter data loss, then use of a professional memory card recovery software is always the best way to overcome the loss. Most of these tools support almost all kinds of memory cards including the speed-rated cards, thus they are the best solution for ensuring the security of your data when you encounter the loss.

   Amit Yadav

About the Guest Author:

Amit Yadav is a professional writer and a data recovery expert. He provides best solutions for the problems related to storage devices and specially on how to recover losts photos from them. He has also published a research report on photo recovery tools.