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Consider that Olympus/Fujifilm tried this in the early 2000s with XD-Picture Card. (The cards were literally just a NAND flash chip wired up to the pins.) Even
by duskwuff 6y ago
Consider that Olympus/Fujifilm tried this in the early 2000s with XD-Picture Card. (The cards were literally just a NAND flash chip wired up to the pins.) Even though this theoretically reduced the BOM cost for the cards, XD lost in the market to other solutions like Compact Flash and SD, which embedded a controller.
- sprash 6y agoxD failed because it was a proprietary standard used exclusively by FujiFilm and Olympus and were generally more expensive to the consumers than the completely open and free SD-format. The lack of a flash translation layer was a major advantage.