When first purchased, most digital cameras will not be able to take many pictures and often the speed at which they are able to transfer pictures to your computer is very slow. This is because most digital cameras are initially equipped with a very low speed, low capacity and memory cards are fairly inadequate. But the good news is that there are new high capacity, high speed, USB storage devices, and memory cards available today that can be purchased separately to solve the problem. Also there are even services that will assist and repair USB flash drives and there are also recovery services for lost memory card data.

If you really need a great deal of speed, the fastest memory cards for digital cameras is the SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash. This has a minimum read-write speed of 40MB per sec and is the fastest available today. It can be bought in 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB and these are marketed for the professional photographer using top quality digital cameras and shoot JPEG and RAW images, which are large images that consume a large amount of space fast. The card is heat resistant and can endure temperature ranges of -13F through 185F, and has included software that allows the management and manipulation of data and images. When using quality products, you are able to lessen the need for repair services for the USB flash drive .

The 1gb compact flash memory card by Kingston is called the MicroDS card, and it's storage area will fit on the surface area at the tip of your finger nail. The card has numerous applications, but it is most frequently used in small digital cameras especially those that are commonly used for outdoor photography. It has an SD adapter that can fit a SD card slot.

To support full motion video and rapid fire shooting, the memory card by Lexar Media, the Platinum 2 CompactFlash is available. It has speed of 80x that produces a 12MB per second write speed , at minimum, and allows maximum use of the many features in the camera. It allows for the captioning of photographs to be done quickly with no interruption.