SD cards

Tiny camera memory

SD cards are small, removable flash memory cards used for portable storage in cameras, phones, and other devices.

The name comes from Secure Digital, a technical standard.

Various sizes exist—standard SD, miniSD, and microSD—with microSD now dominant in smartphones.

My phone's SD card holds all my photos.

Also written as SD card (singular).

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storage integration

SD cardsinternal storage

Device's built-in data capacity

ROM

storage technology type

SD cardshard disk drives

Magnetic computer storage units

HDDs · magnetic tape · optical discs · floppy disks · CDs

data persistence

SD cardsRAM

Temporary data storage hardware

volatile memory · DRAM · cache memory · working memory · SRAM

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secure, card, SD card

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G