SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO CFast 2.0 card up to 525 MB/s VPG-130

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Also a product of the Compact Flash Association, CFexpress is hailed as the successor to CFast and XQD. Three tough CFexpress versions were announced in February 2019, types A to C. These are distinguished by their physical size, A being the smallest and C being the largest. The theoretical performance increases in parallel with the physical dimensions of the card (Type A @1GB/s, Type B @2GB/s Type C @4GB/s). Many devices that were designed for QXD cards could be firmware upgraded to accept CFexpress cards. Currently Holdan offers WISE CFX Type B cards at 128, 256 and 512GB capacities. CFexpress Type B offers an excellent blend of value, capacity, quality, and — particularly — speed. While the insanely fast read and write speeds are of little value to photographers who don’t shoot sports or wildlife, they still aren’t too offputtingly expensive, especially if your second slot is UHS-II SD. The CFast cards days have always been numbered. CFast 2.0 cards use the SATA 3.0 interface, which has a maximum bus speed of 600MB/s. Think of bus as a motorway for data transfer. The XQD card, announced by the CompactFlash Association on December 7ᵗʰ2011, had a theoretical top bus speed of 625MB/s thanks to the use of PCIe rather than SATA 3.0 ¹⁴. If you are confused by these terminologies, they are simply different types of connections, but in some contextsyou can think of SATA and PCIe as a form of language between the computer and memory. The more efficient the language, the faster data can be transferred.

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The advantage of CFast over other memory storage solutions is that it uses the same Serial ATA (or SATA) bus that your PC uses. The original Compact Flash used a Parallel ATA (or PATA) connection, like the one you’d find on computers from the ’90s. Performance

First announced in 2010 by SanDisk, Sony, and Nikon, XQD is a flash memory card using the PCI Express interface. XQD Version 2.0, announced in 2012, moved to the PCI Express 3.0 interface. If budget isn’t a concern, you should definitely invest in a Sony SF-G Tough UHS-II SD Card – it’s a great choice that won’t let you down! The only downside is the price tag, but trust us – it’s worth it!

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This used to be more important when memory cards were generally much slower, but these days while you’ll still come across it on some modern cards, it’s largely unhelpful. Speed Class has been effectively replaced by either UHS Speed Class or Video Speed Class, and either is going to be better to determine the capability of a card. UHS Speed Class

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The successor to CompactFlash, now based on the Serial ATA (SATA) interface, first hit the market in 2009, though it would take several years for the imaging industry to fully adopt the format. In short: faster is better, but only if you have a camera capable of making use of it. Many mid to high-end cameras feature one or even two UHS-II slots, while some feature one UHS-II slot and one UHS-I slot, or even just a single UHS-II slot. Some lower-end cameras use UHS-I exclusively. All of the same specifications of SD cards apply to MicroSD cards, with the same nomenclature. Both UHS-I and UHS-II microSD cards are available, ranging from V30 to V90 — though only Delkin Devices and Kingston produce V90 cards, so the selection is significantly thinner than SD for high-speed options. Don’t worry about CFexpress Type C quite yet. No camera uses it and no manufacturer is producing on the standard yet. VPG 400