CFExpress Type B cards have become a main stream item and will be here for some time. We don’t feel the same with respect to CFExpress Type A as it is supported by few media devices in comparison and can’t come close to capacity or speed of CFExpress Type B. Don’t get me wrong. CFExpress Type B has had its …
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ProGrade Digital 160GB Cobalt CFExpress Type A Card and Dual Slot CFExpressA / SD Card Reader Review
Type B CFExpress cards have gained massive popularity as of late but what about CFExpress Type A. Has it been forgotten? The unfortunate reality of CFExpress Type A cards is that they are a very niche product limited to very few Sony cameras; the Sony a7S III, FX3 and Fx6 specifically. If it’s a professional DSLR that has CFExpress storage, …
Read More »ProGrade CFExpress B 1TB 1700 Gold / 325GB 1700 Cobalt Memory Cards & Thunderbolt 3 Card Reader Review – Things Just Keep on Getting Better
Sustained write disk performance is not advertised with most CFexpress Type B cards today and, in fact, it is not common whatsoever in the flash industry. As much as it is not spoken of, consumer SSDs, SD cards, compact flash cards, and even the latest CFexpress cards, are marketed and sold according to their ‘peak’ read and write data transfer …
Read More »SanDisk Extreme Pro 512GB CFExpress B Card Review – Understanding Sustained Data Transfer, Temperatures and Thermal Throttling
In case you missed it, there has been a storm in the camera industry as of late. As much as I would like to say it’s the newest Canon EOS R5 camera I have in hand, it’s not. It is the controversy surrounding this R5 video capabilities and the correlation of internal temperatures and a point where the camera will …
Read More »Lexar High-Performance 633x MicroSDXC Review (1TB) – The First of Its Kind
Great relationships can lead to great things. In the past few months, there have been a few companies who have stated their intention to market the holy grail of portable storage; a 1TB microSDXC card. So far though… nada. Well…at least until earlier today when a totally unexpected package arrived via courier. It was a small package…very small in fact. …
Read More »PNY Pro Elite 512GB MicroSD Card Review – Bigger and Faster
A few weeks back we reported on one of our first high capacity MicroSD cards, the PNY Elite 512GB MicroSD. We couldn’t say enough about the fact that we are now seeing high capacity storage in smaller devices such as smartphones, surveillance cameras, drones, along with so many other compact devices enjoying the opportunity to enjoy longer operating scenarios before …
Read More »PNY Elite 512GB microSDXC Flash Card Review – High Capacity in a Small Package
I remember a time when people were amazed of the high capacity that a CF card could have. It was all the rage for the media world. Years past and we saw the popularity of SD cards, and eventually the need for microSD cards grew exponentially. Yes… I realize I am dating myself here….just about as far back as the …
Read More »ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card Review – 4 x M.2 SSD RAID at 10GB/s and 932K IOPS
It was only a few weeks ago that ASRock announced their newest Ultra Quad M.2 Card, yet today we have it in hand and tested. The ASRock Ultra Quad M.2 Card bears a striking resemblance to the HighPoint SSD7101 RAID Controller we tested a few months back… but there are some very distinct differences that we will point out in …
Read More »Lexar 800x 512GB Professional CompactFlash Card Review
In storage tech, there exists a golden triangle that consists of performance, capacity and value; this is no different for camera storage. In our last CompactFlash Card report, we awarded our Editor’s Choice to the Lexar Professional 1066x 128GB CF Card for its mind-boggling performance that blew away every storage card we have ever tested. That card, as well, came …
Read More »Samsung EVO Plus microSDXC UHS-I Card Review (256GB) – So Much V-NAND!
Released earlier last year, the Samsung EVO Plus line of microSD cards has been quite a success. In light of this, Samsung has decided to continue the momentum and push boundaries by expanding the capacity availability. Today, Samsung has released the world’s largest microSD card, and in order to do so, they have integrated their latest 48-layer TLC V-NAND into it! At 256GB, it is …
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