Right here Comes Lexar’s Costly New 320GB CFE A Gold Card
Dominant digital storage producer Lexar has launched a brand new and higher-capacity CFexpress Sort A card for digital cameras onto the market.
The brand new card mannequin is within the model’s Gold line and gives 320GB of inner house and rapid-fire switch speeds of as much as 900MB/s for studying and 800MB/s for writing.
This new card follows earlier releases by Lexar that supplied rather more modest storage capacities of 80 and 160GB respectively and had been launched in August of this yr.
With this version, Lexar has launched a product with very comparable learn and write capacities however with the apparent and far bigger space for storing.
This nonetheless is typical of current CFexpress launches during which completely different playing cards of a single sort can have drastically completely different storage capacities however nonetheless provide the identical important learn and write speeds except in any other case specified.
Lexar’s new card is a significant improve from the model’s earlier most-powerful possibility with its doubling of storage capability to 320GB. It may at the least let photographers hold capturing large-resolution images even in RAW format with out having to fiddle round with a card change too quickly.
It’s additionally price noting that this Lexar mannequin has been rated with Video Efficiency Assure 400 (VPG 400) certification, which requires {that a} card by no means performs at a write velocity of lower than 400MB/s.
With the above in thoughts, the brand new Lexar card is only one of a spate of choices of CFexpress playing cards by completely different producers for high-performance picture and video recording:
Earlier this yr, Sony even launched a brand new and far larger-than-average 640GB CFexpress Sort A card of its personal for a really hefty price ticket of $1,249 per pop.
Later, Pergear launched its personal Sort B CFE playing cards at a lot decrease costs and far increased storage capacities, in addition to superior learn/write speeds to these of the Lexar fashions above. The highest performers among the many Pergear fashions nonetheless curiously lack the VPG 400 certification of the Lexar version.
Lexar itself claims that the brand new card won’t ever go under a write velocity of 700MB/s and claims that this could make it adequate for critical video recording with no single dropped body. It must be much more purposeful for photographer wants.
To offer Lexar its due credit score on this declare, testing by PetaPixel has proven that their playing cards are inclined to outperform these of their rivals from Sony and ProGrade Digital on sure metrics.
This efficiency doesn’t come low cost, nonetheless. Lexar is providing the brand new Skilled CFexpress Sort A Card GOLD Collection 320GB card for $700. To make this dip into the pockets harm only a bit much less, the cardboard does come bundled with Lexar’s CFexpress Sort A/SD Card Reader as a part of the identical value.
The model’s 80GB card retails for $200 and the 160GB version is promoting for $400 if you happen to’re considering that $700 is a bit a lot. Once more, each of those lower-capacity playing cards provide roughly the identical high-end learn/write speeds because the 320GB model.
