Check ProGrade Digital product pricing at the ProGrade website, or at Amazon.ДЇor our testing today, the following pages will provide a description of our test bench and CFexpress card reader, Gold 1700 1TB description and synthetic testing, Cobalt 1700 description and testing, along with a Report Analysis and summary page.

Both come with a limited three year warranty, and as well, the ProGrade Thunderbolt 3 CFexpress/XQD Card Reader comes with a limited two year warranty.

three ports located on the front: USB 3. Just as a bit of an overview, both the ProGrade Gold and Cobalt CFexpress memory cards we are testing today have the 1700 designation as that is their вЂpeakвЂ™ data transfer speed. With OWCs TB3 dock you get a total of 13 ports, including a SD card port, a 3.5mm analog audio in/out port, five USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports, an S/PDIF port, dual Thunderbolt 3 ports, a FireWire 800 port, a Gigabit Ethernet port and a mini DisplayPort. We can tell you right off that both of these cards differ significantly with respect to sustained write speeds, although both perform just fine in the R5, the 1700 Gold 1TB card making up in capacity where it is just a bit lower in sustained write speeds. ThatвЂ™s our job.ДЄ big thank you to ProGrade Digital as, on our Test Bench today is the ProGrade Digital 1700 Gold CFexpress 1TB Memory Card, the 1700 Cobalt CFExpress 2.0 325GB Memory Card, and their Thunderbolt 3 CFexpress/XQD Card reader. One cannot tell the difference between a card with a 300MB/s sustained write speed or a card with a 1300MB/s sustained write speed, without specific tests to identify these speeds. It is important to be aware of, however, that typical performance testing does not identify sustained write speed whatsoever. Access your photos and videos anywhere you go. The reader is also ideal for creative professionals such as photographers and videographers who work with 4K and 3D content. ItвЂ™s perfect for when you are working offsite on assignment. The R5 changed that, in that, 8K, and the highest quality 4K video will not record without a CFexpress card with a sustained write speed of roughly 325MB/s, give or take a few MB/s. This Thunderbolt 3 SD card reader and writer lets you access up to six SD cards at the same time from your laptop.

Sustained write performance has not been considered whatsoever, at least until the release of the Canon EOS R5 camera, as it never affected the operation of cameras before this. Peak performance is вЂfresh out of the boxвЂ™ speed and sustained performance is lower and occurs with steady reads and writes to a storage product. вЂSustained writesвЂ™ are remotely similar to something called вЂsteady stateвЂ™ performance where a storage device is pushed to the point that one can identify the speed it will perform at after a period of constant reads and writes to the product. 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 вЂpeakвЂ™ read and write data transfer speedвЂ¦or throughput. 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.

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