There's a reason why some SD cards have a tiny switch on the side. It's actually there to help protect the data onboard, but ...

Velocity Micro VMultra has been designed to offer an all-in-one solution for mobile users combining a DVD RW, 500GB of storage, USB 3.0 hub with 3 ports and a handy SD card reader.

Desktop Macs with a card slot, like an iMac, use the PCIe bus. This data-transfer method performs far faster, and won’t constrain a high-performance SD card.

Many were angry that Nintendo didn't go with 500GB worth of storage, which is what's contained within the Xbox One and PS4. However, Nintendo's aim for the Switch was to make it a hybrid system ...

In 2005, the microSD card debuted at about one sixth the size and half the thickness of the SD card. An SD card measures 32 by 24 by 2.1 mm, while the microSD card is 15 by 11 by 1 mm.

Good news: The SD Association has added yet another confusing specification layer to SD cards. The new "UC" spec extends the maximum capacity of either a full-size or micro SD card from 2TB to 128TB.

For content creators, a laptop with a built-in SD card reader is a preferred feature. Some users go so far as to consider laptops only if they have a reader. One mistake with that choice is it ...

With the new SD Express 9.1 standard, the SD Association wants to increase the speed of SD cards and at the same time introduce four new memory classes.