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Originally Posted by ProDigit
From my understanding, SD cards (and micro SD cards) do not have the controller on their cards. The controller is on the SD card reader.
USB FLash drives, have them on the chip.
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Micro-SD cards have their own onboard microcontroller too, just like non-removable flash memory chipsets, USB sticks, etc. See
this article for some of the gory details.
There are some very poor quality micro-SD cards available for sale, and naturally if you buy one of them you can expect all sorts of problems. But exactly the same applies to non-removable flash memory.