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Sony unveils two huge new 960GB and 1920GB Tough CFexpress cards

Jun 2, 2023 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Sony has announced two new large-capacity 960GB and 1920GB CFexpress Type A memory cards. The two new cards offer read speeds of up to 800MB/sec and write speeds of up to 700MB/sec. Their VPG 200 specification rating guarantees they’ll never drop below 200MB/sec sustained write speeds.

Like all of Sony’s Tough series memory cards, they feature a rugged and durable design. It lets them handle drops of up to 7.5 metres (a little over 24ft). They can take up to 150 Newtons of impact force. And they can perform in temperatures ranging from a chilly -10°C up to 70°C (14-158°F). The cards also possess an IP57. This means they can survive drops in water up to 1 metre in depth for at least half an hour.

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Nextorage announces its new V90 and V60 UHS-II SD cards

Feb 22, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Sony offshoot, Nextorage, has announced its newest UHS-II SD cards. The announcement brings two new series of memory cards. There’s the UHS-II SE (NX-F2SE), which is a V60 cards offering read speeds up to 280MB/sec, and there’s the UHS-II Pro (NX-F2PRO) V90 card, with read speeds of up to 300MB/sec and write speeds up to 299MB/sec. There are three cards in each series, with the UHS-II SE V60 cards coming in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities and the faster UHS-II Pro V90 cards in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities.

Nextorage says that both the NX-F2SE and NX-F2PRO series cards are built tough with an IP57 rating, drop resistance from up to 1.5 metres, tested for 10,000 insertion and removal procedures, and come with a 5-year warranty. The company says they’ve passed 9 different types of durability tests to deliver maximum peace of mind.

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ProGrade Digital officially announces 3rd generation 1TB CFexpress cards

Jan 20, 2023 by John Aldred Add Comment
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It looks like last October’s post was a little premature. Despite appearing on the B&H website, it looks like ProGrade’s 3rd-generation 1TB CFexpress Type B cards hadn’t been officially announced by the company themselves. Well, now, they have.

ProGrade Digital has announced their newest 3rd-generation 1TB CFexpress Type B cards, boasting read speeds of up to 1,700MB/sec, burst write speeds up to 1,500MB/sec and sustained write speeds of up to 1,300MB/sec. But why the delay between listings appearing in October and an official announcement now? Well, ProGrade explains that, too.

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Nextorage announces the world’s fastest CFexpress Type B memory cards up to 1,330GB

Nov 22, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Nextorage has announced its new CFexpress cards. Claiming to be the world’s fastest, with read speeds of up to 1,950MB/sec, the B1 SE and B1 Pro series come in a variety of capacities from 128GB up to a whopping 1,330GB. Shifting its focus towards creatives is an interesting move for the Sony subsidiary founded in 2019, which initially seemed predominantly targeted towards Playstation users.

The two new CFexpress product lines are aimed at different types of users. The B1 SE aimed more towards photographers with an 1100MB/sec write speed for clearing out buffers, but with transfer speeds like that, it’s no slouch for many video shooters, too. The B1 Pro, on the other hand, provides writing speeds up to 1,900MB/sec for faster buffer clearance and 8K video recording at high bitrates.

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OWC releases Copy That for Mac to let you quickly copy, backup and verify your media cards

Oct 4, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Other World Computing (OWC), manufacturer of memory and storage-related products has released their new Copy That for Mac software. They describe it as “an intuitive, easy to use backup tool for content creators”. The software lets you quickly and easily ingest your memory cards ready for editing, but will also automatically create backups to multiple sources and verify that they all copied over correctly.

It complies with the industry standard “3-2-1 rule“, which states that there should be at least three copies of the data stored on two different types of media, with one copy kept offsite in some kind of remote storage or cloud system and its verification system ensures that the data is always copied to all of its targets accurately.

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ProGrade’s new high-capacity CFexpress Type B “Gold” cards come in 512GB, 1TB and 2TB flavours

Oct 4, 2022 by John Aldred 2 Comments
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ProGrade Digital has announced (maybe?) new high-capacity additions to their Gold line CFexpress Type B cards. These include the now somewhat modest 512GB cards, along with larger capacities of 1TB and 2TB. They’re fully compliant with both CFexpress Type B 1.0 and 2.0 specifications and also work with devices that have XQD card slots that have had firmware updates from the manufacturers (like Nikon’s DSLRs).

The new cards offer read speeds of up to 1700MB/sec for quickly offloading your content to your computer or other storage device and write speeds of up to 1500MB/sec – with a guaranteed minimum write speed of 400MB/sec (3.2gbps) for a wide range of video applications including 4K RAW, 4K and 7K ProRes 4444 as well as 4K, 6K and 8K ProRes 422HQ.

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A pair of Sony’s new 640GB CFexpress Type A cards costs more than your Sony FX30 preorder

Sep 30, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Along with the announcement of the new Sony FX30 APS-C cinema camera, Sony has also released two new capacities of their Sony Tough CFexpress Type A memory cards. This expands their existing 80GB and 160GB capacity versions with 320GB and the largest CFexpress Type A card to date from any manufacturer at 640GB.

The new large capacity cards offer maximum write speeds of up to 700MB/sec and sustained write speeds of up to 400MB/sec for the kind of 4K 120fps high bit rate video shooting that the Sony FX30 and FX3 provide. They’re also part of Sony’s “Tough” line, which means they’ve been certified waterproof, dust proof and durable enough to withstand harsh environments.

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It’s World Backup Day 2022 – Here are the best storage deals from around the web

Mar 31, 2022 by John Aldred Add Comment
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It’s World Backup Day today. Yes, that’s right, there’s a World Backup Day, your annual reminder to set up a system to back up your stuff so that you don’t lose it all in the event of a hard drive crash! So, we’ve been looking around the web to find the best deals on memory cards, hard drives and SSD storage so that you can take your backup game up to the next level this year.

We’ll be updating this list throughout the day as we spot more deals, so bookmark it and keep checking back!

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Sony is recalling some of its SD cards due to damaged and lost data

Jun 16, 2020 by John Aldred 3 Comments
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Sony has announced that they’ve opened up a replacement programme for some of its SF-M series, SF-M TOUGH series and SF-G TOUGH series SD cards due to data on the card being damaged or missing when recording video on certain cameras. They’re offering a free replacement of the cards from now until March 31st, 2022.

Sony offers up some tips to help determine if you have one of the affected cards, along with instructions on how to return your cards, and what to do to them before you do so.

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Manfrotto has entered the memory card market with new rugged SD, microSD and CompactFlash cards

Jan 11, 2020 by John Aldred 13 Comments
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Well, this is a surprise. Manfrotto has entered the world of memory cards. And they’ve done it with UHS-II V90 SD cards, V30 microSD cards, and UDMA7 CompactFlash. They’re called Pro RUGGED memory cards, and Manfrotto says that they are “the toughest memory cards on the market” for professionals.

Although unexpected, the launch of SD and microSD cards makes some sense, but the CompactFlash is an odd choice when everybody else seems to be piling onto the CFexpress bandwagon right now.

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