CompactFlash

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CompactFlash is a type of solid-state memory card widely used in early digital cameras and professional photography equipment for removable data storage.

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Label Occurrences
CompactFlash canonical 1

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf flash memory card
memory card format
removable storage medium
abbreviation CF NERFINISHED
capacityRange from megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes
category Computer storage media
Digital photography
competesWith Memory Stick NERFINISHED
Secure Digital NERFINISHED
xD-Picture Card NERFINISHED
designedFor removable data storage
developedBy SanDisk NERFINISHED
formFactor solid-state
formFactorVariant Type I
Type II
governingBody CompactFlash Association NERFINISHED
height 36.4 mm
interfaceType PCMCIA subset
Parallel ATA NERFINISHED
introducedInYear 1994
notableFeature high durability compared to mechanical drives
high write speed for its era
relatively large physical size compared to SD cards
pinCount 50-pin connector
powerSupplyVoltage 3.3 V
5 V
primaryUse digital cameras
portable electronic devices
professional photography equipment
standardizedBy CompactFlash Association NERFINISHED
status largely superseded in consumer cameras
stillUsedIn some professional and industrial applications
storageTechnology flash memory
successorFormat CFast NERFINISHED
CFexpress NERFINISHED
supportsFileSystem FAT16 NERFINISHED
FAT32 NERFINISHED
exFAT NERFINISHED
supportsHotSwap true
supportsMode I/O mode
Memory-mapped I/O mode
True IDE mode
thicknessOfTypeI 3.3 mm
thicknessOfTypeII 5 mm
usedIn DSLR cameras
embedded systems
high-end video cameras
industrial equipment
width 42.8 mm

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: CompactFlash
Description of subject: CompactFlash is a type of solid-state memory card widely used in early digital cameras and professional photography equipment for removable data storage.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Memory Stick (on older models) competition CompactFlash
subject surface form: Memory Stick