Sony 160GB TOUGH CFexpress Type A Flash Memory Card - VPG400 High Speed G Series with Video Performance Guarantee (Read 800MB/s and Write 700MB/s) – CEA-G160T

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Of the three, photographers and videographers don’t need to concern themselves too much with Type C – these larger cards are designed more for use with computers and Solid State Drives. The types you’ll most typically find compatible with cameras are Type B – this is the type you’ll be able to use with the Canon EOS R5, Nikon Z6, Panasonic S1R and other cameras. SD Express also arrived three years after CFexpress, giving the latter a significant head start. What kind of CFexpress cards are there? 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. All memory cards have a finite amount of storage and will come in a variety of storage capacity options. How big of a card you need depends on the kind of content you create, the file sizes from your camera, and how often you’d like to change your card.

Storage of uncompressed video is a much more obvious use case for all that bandwidth. This is normally done over HDMI, as a 2.1-version connector has 48Gbps bandwidth (6GB/s). So while a CFexpress Type C card isn’t quite as fat a pipe as HDMI, it comes much closer than the cards we have today, and would let you store incredibly high data-rate footage in-camera. When Sony released the a7S III, it also introduced a new card type—the CFexpress Type A. The later-released a1 also utilized this new memory card. Sony was the only company producing the CFexpress Type A for a bit, but ProGrade entered the market to provide an alternative. Though the Prograde version is still not cheap by any means, it is more affordable than Sony’s, saving you some money. When it comes to Type A cards, Sony was the only game in town, announcing a range of CFexpress Type A cards alongside the A7S III. Since then Delkin and Lexar have started to produce cards in the CFexpress type A format. Offering read/write speeds of around 800MB/s and 700MB/s, the Sony CFexpress Type A TOUGH Memory Cards are, as the name implies, tough enough to stand up to the rigours of professional use. They come in 80GB and 160GB varieties. Sony has VPG400 certification for its CFexpress Type A cards, and the first company to obtain VPG 400 certification for a Type B card was Exascend earlier this year. Lexar’s upcoming CFexpress cards will also carry the certification. What Memory Card Brands Should You Buy?Of note, PetaPixel did notice that a few cards took longer to recover than others. Namely, the ProGrade Digital Gold, Acer, Pro Master Pro Velocity Cine, and Pergear Ultra were slightly slower to fully clear the buffer than the other cards, meaning that a photographer in the field won’t be ready to fire another full burst quite as soon as they would be if they used any other tested card. CFexpress 2.0 cards, like those from ProGrade Digital, for example, list a normal operating current of 1500 mA, up to a max of 2500 mA, for its 'Gold' and 'Cobalt' series of Type B cards. As such, it seems likely that the faster-performing CFexpress 4.0 cards could draw more power than CFexpress 2.0 cards of similar card types. Many CFexpress cards top out at 512GB of storage, with a few offering 2TB. Angelbird brought something new to the table with its massive 4TB card. It offers more storage space than anything else available at the time of writing. San Jose, CA September 20, 2021, 8:00 am—ProGrade Digital™, founded with a mission to provide the highest quality professional grade digital memory cards and workflow solutions, announces its new CFexpress™ Type A memory card. ProGrade Digital CFexpress Type A cards provide read speeds up to 800MB/s and burst write speeds up to 700MB/s. In addition, ProGrade Digital’s CFexpress Type A card delivers a minimum sustained write speed of 400MB/s (VPG 400) – specifically designed for high-resolution video capture.

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 Where this card does beat out all the competition is in burst performance. It can shoot at the Canon R5’s highest burst setting for just over 30 seconds before the buffer limit slows it down, which is nearly double any other card. So if you are photographing sports or fast-moving wildlife, this will be the card to use because of its burst capabilities.

Type B CFexpress cards use the same physical format as XQD cards. This means you should be able to use the two interchangeably as long as your camera's firmware supports both types. Are CFexpress cards and XQD cards the same thing? If you’ve been following the latest mirrorless camera releases, like the Canon EOS R5 and the Sony A7S III, then you’ve probably heard about CFexpress. The new memory card game in town, it’s fast becoming standard practice for new cameras to come sporting a CFExpress slot. The next stage for CFexpress is PCIe 4.0, which may come with the format’s next big revision. This would double the bandwidth per lane, so a theoretical CFexpress 3.0 card might offer 2GB/s speed for Type A sizes, 4GB/s for Type B, and 8GB/s for Type C. CFexpress raises that to 4GB/s for the fastest, Type C variant, in line with the speed of the main storage drive of a high-end laptop.