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Thursday, April 5, 2007
Is SD (Secure Digital) just too large for you? Do those micro SD cards poke you in the leg when in your pants pockets? Looking for something smaller…yet faster in speed for data transfer rates? Whelp, we’ve got it for you. May we introduce to you the SQ flash card. It’s an itsy bitsy tiny weaney card that measures in a perfect square at 2.0×2.0×2.0mm. Your eyes read correct. That makes it smaller than an SD or micro SD card.
While small, this card ain’t no square when it comes to moving data. It’ll read at speeds of 32.4MB and writes at 21.5MB for the 2GB version. The fastest Smokey caught this on radar was a scorching 60MB’s.
The cool thing about the SQ card is that it’s based on the USB 2.0/OTB standard. That means you should be able to see transfer speeds at 480 MB's. Ala, when future SQ cards reach higher speeds, you won’t have to purchase new hardware. Further, the USB spec allows manufacturers to utilized the 127 USB device per host limit to its advantage. Multiple SQ card sockets into a CE product. Piece of cake. Read: add more than one SQ flash card at a time to help feed the hunger of certain memory aggressive applications.
Now if you’re wondering about the four sides all having contacts on them, well that’s been done on purpose with a purpose, and the purpose being (I swear I’ll stop with purpose) it increases the life of the card by 400%. Nice.
If you want to do some bed time readin’ on this, then head on over to www.sharedrives.com or e-mail info@sharedrives.com
October 17th, 2007 at 16:23
It is not 2mm x 2mm, it is 20mm x 20mm x 2mm - see http://www.shareplayers.net/SQ/SQ%20Comparison%20Chart-Jan2007.pdf
This makes it (slightly) smaller (but thicker) than miniSD, and larger in all dimensions than microSD.