Smart Media is a once-popular memory card format released in the mid-1990s as a competitor to the aging floppy-disk medium. Smart Media cards are no longer being produced, having fallen out of favor in the face of the Secure Digital (SD) format. If you are considering upgrading a Smart Media-based camera to one that uses Secure Digital media, you may be curious about how the formats compare. Learning about these two memory card formats can help you make a more educated decision. Writer Bio
