Lexar’s new Diamond Sequence CFexpress Kind B playing cards and Gold Sequence CFexpress Kind A playing cards each will hit new pace marks that can make them the quickest of their sort available on the market.
Lexar, now a subsidiary of Longsys, says the brand new CFexpress playing cards will hit some spectacular pace marks. The Diamond Sequence CFexpress Kind B playing cards have a learn pace of 1,900 MB/s, the quickest available on the market that are available 150 MB/s quicker than Angelbird’s AV Professional playing cards. The Lexar playing cards don’t fairly sustain that pace for write efficiency, however nonetheless promise a formidable 1,700 MB/s, which is the same as what most different CFexpress Kind B playing cards available on the market promise for peak learn speeds.
Lexar says that these new pace efficiency marks enable the cardboard to easily seize RAW 8K, 6K, and 4K video with ease and, like all CFexpress Kind B playing cards, the Diamond Sequence is backward appropriate with XQD. The playing cards have additionally earned a VPG 400 specification which ensures a minimal sustained write pace of 400MB/s with out dropping any frames. Final week, Exascend turned the primary reminiscence card firm to launch a CFexpress Kind B card with VPG 400 certification, however with the launch of the Diamond Sequence, Lexar now joins it.
Lexa’rs playing cards are shock and vibration proof in addition to proof against excessive temperatures from 14-degrees Fahrenheit (-10-degrees Celsius) to 158-degrees Fahrenheit (70-degrees Celsius) and non-operating temperatures from -4-degrees Fahrenheit (-20-degrees Celsius) or 185-degrees Fahrenheit (85-degrees Celsius).
Lexar has additionally launched its CFexpress Kind A Gold Sequence playing cards which promise as much as 900 MB/s learn speeds and 800 MB/s write speeds, making them quicker than each the ProGrade Digital and Sony playing cards of the identical design. The corporate plans to launch a brand new CFexpress Kind A reader within the coming months as effectively.
It must be famous that the quoted learn and write speeds for each CFexpress card varieties are outlined as “peak” speeds based mostly on Lexar’s personal inside testing. Sustained speeds are solely promised to be 400 MB/s in each instances.
Each Lexar’s Diamond Sequence CFexpress Kind B playing cards and Gold Sequence CFexpress Kind A playing cards are lined by a lifetime guarantee.
Lexar didn’t present any pricing info nor what capability choices to anticipate from both reminiscence card sort. It did say that the 2 CFexpress card varieties are nonetheless in improvement however can be obtainable someday in quarter two of 2022.
