Lexar, a leading global brand of flash memory solutions, is excited to reveal its product lineup to be showcased at this year’s CES in Las Vegas, Nevada. With products ranging from its tried-and-true professional photography and videography portfolio to its robust gaming line-up and portable storage, the breadth of Lexar products will be on display.
Lexar will be showcasing its cutting-edge Professional CFexpress 4.0 Type B Card DIAMOND Series which leverages the latest PCIe Gen 4 for the powerful performance and accelerated post-production efficiencies that professionals demand—a blistering-fast max. read speed of 3600MB/s and max. write of 3300MB/s.1 For Type-A gear users, Lexar will show the Professional CFexpress 4.0 Type A Card GOLD Series. It also utilizes PCIe Gen 4 technology and is the world’s fastest CFexpress Type A card with max. read speeds of 1800MB/s and max. write speeds of 1650MB/s.1 The Professional GOLD microSD UHS-II Card will also be displayed. Recommended by GoPro for use with their action cameras, it delivers max. read speeds of 280MB/s and max. write speeds of 180MB/s1 and comes in capacities up to 256GB.
On the gaming side, Lexar will reveal the Professional NM1090 M.2 PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSD with Heatsink. Featuring PCIe Gen 5 performance with max. read speeds of 12,000MB/s and max. write speeds of 11,000MB/s,1 it is nearly twice as fast as PCIe Gen 4.2 Lexar will also show the award-winning NM800 PRO M.2 2280 NVMe SSD and its newest iteration of the NM800 PRO which includes an integrated heatsink, with capacities up to 8TB. The PLAY M.2 2230 PCIe 4.0 SSD packs big performance into a small form factor that is perfect for handheld gaming consoles and M.2 2230 compatible laptops. It delivers max. read speeds of 5200MB/s and max. write speeds of 4700MB/s,1 and leverages SLC dynamic cache to keep load times and downloads fast. Lexar will also show its blazing-fast gaming DRAM, ARES RGB DDR5, which clocks in at 8400MT/s and with timing as low as CL40.
For the portable storage, Lexar will showcase its unparalleled Portable SSD lineup including ARMOR 700 and SL500, both deliver excellent durability and reliability. The Armor 700 Portable SSD, ranging from 1TB to 4TB, combines IP66 water and dust resistance with a rugged design capable of withstanding a 3-meter drop. The SL500 portable SSD, powered by Silicon Motion Technology portable SSD controllers, with speeds up to 2000MB/s read and 1800MB/s 1write. Its sleek aluminum design offers easy portability, while its wide compatibility makes it suitable for mobile devices, laptops, cameras, Xbox, PlayStation, and more. It especially supports 4K 60FPS ProRes Apple Log video recording on the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max.
This improved the buffer size from 38 to 42 RAW pictures. How big would it be if 3300mb/s would be possible?
AFAIK the only CFe cameras that can use the full CFe bandwidth are the Nikon Z9 and Z8. And Nikon cameras allow you to keep shooting after the buffer has filled, at a rate that matches the card speed. Canon bodies will pause a long time to clear a large chunk of the buffer, take a bust of pictures, pause again, etc. So Nikon will give you a consistent framerate after the buffer has filled, Canon does the hurry-up-and-wait thing :(
So there's 3 things Canon will hopefully do in the R5II/R1:
Today I won't buy a card without sustained speed rating, just because of the lag of information.
But I sold my R5 a few weeks ago in anticipation of a 2024Q2 R5II release, so the CFe cards are gathering dust right now :)
But I do miss the 45MP, buffer and CFe speed of the R5, especially after discovering a kingfisher and a pair of harriers living within half a mile of where I live.