What Does SDHC Mean?

Question

I bought a new Camera Memory card

I was looking at a full wall of cards

some were just SD cards (which ive been using)

then i saw some with SDHC on it im like wtf is the HC for lol

I had my camera with me and noticed the bottom of the cam said SDHC

Soo I bought one I got a Lexar 4GB SDHC class 2?

Whatever that means its pretty cool my pictures are clearer and videos are much better but when i upload them to youtube or whatever i know its gonna take the quality away i know thats for sure =/

So anyways what does the HC mean? lol

I didnt even read my camera book thing before i bought it

so I just crossed my fingers hoping it would work

but it does :D

Answer 1

HC means high capacity and the main difference between sd and hcsd is the data transfer rates in hcsd is higher.

Answer 2

The HC cards will have a faster write speed.There will be less delay between your shots. A 1GB SD card and a !GB SDHC card will each hold the same # of pictures.

Answer 3

The HC stands for "High Capacity", which actually doesn't have much to do with picture quality.

I'm not sure why your photos/videos would look better, unless the camera automatically adjusted its quality settings due to the availability of additional storage.

Answer 4

The SDHC stands for SD Holy c**p! What that means is you can fit a ton of videos and pictures inside these tiny little plastic thingies and they are really rad. Totally!

Answer 5

Secure Digital (SD) is a flash (non-volatile) memory card format developed by Matsushita, SanDisk, and Toshiba for use in portable devices. Today it is widely used in digital cameras, handheld computers, PDAs, mobile phones, GPS receivers, and video game consoles. Standard SD card capacities range from 8 MB to 4 GB and for high capacity SDHC cards 4 GB[citation needed] to 32 GB as of 2008.

The format has proven to be very popular. However, a change in the format, while allowing capacities greater than 4 GB (SDHC), has created compatibility issues with older devices which cannot read the new format. Since SDHC format cards have the same physical shape and form factor as the older format, this has caused considerable confusion for consumers.[1][2] SDHC cards require an SDHC capable device firmware, generally not found with older devices.