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SD™ Express: A Comparison To CFexpress™
Recently, the SD™ Association (governing body for SD card development and standardization) announced finalization of revision 7.0 for the card SD specification. This revision now includes a section 8.0, which adds an NVMe® compliant, PCIe® interface option. Like the announcement of CFexpress™ 1.0 made by the CompactFlash® Association in August of 2016, the PCIe interface with NVMe provides a scalable path for improved performance in flash-based storage devices, and conforms to industry standards in use for devices such as SSDs.
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Does Data Transfer Speed Matter?
Defining Read and Write Speeds for Photography and Motion Capture
From the earliest days of marketing memory cards for use in digital cameras, manufacturers have used performance (transfer speed) as a measure of product “value positioning.” One underlying reason for this is that some applications can truly benefit from a faster transfer speed, and so the measure of performance has had real value to certain buyers…
ProGrade Digital CFast™ 2.0 Recognized by Industry Peers as “Best Memory Card” at the 2018 Lucie Technical Awards
4th Annual Lucie Technology Technical Awards Winners Celebrated October 25, 2018 (New York, NY) - The fourth annual Lucie Technical Awards, an initiative of the Lucie Foundation, announced the 2018 winners, during the PhotoPlus Conference + Expo, photoplusexpo.com, at...
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ProGrade Digital Announces New Line Of Professional Grade microSDXC™ UHS-II, V60 Memory Cards, Plus Two Additional USB 3.1, Gen. 2 Dual-Slot Workflow Readers
ProGrade Digital announces professional grade microSDXC™ UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V60 memory cards, which deliver maximum read speed of up to 200MB/s and maximum write speed of up to 80MB/s. Company also adds to its family of dual-slot USB 3.1, Gen. 2 workflow readers by introducing microSD™ Dual-Slot Card Reader, plus CompactFlash™ & SD™ Dual-Slot Card Reader. Both offer data transfer rates of up to 10Gb/s (1.25GB/s).
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How To Photograph WRC Motor Sports: Colin McMaster Gains Speed With ProGrade Digital
WRC pushes the extremes of man and machine to the limit. Whatever the conditions—glorious or treacherous—the show must go on. I photograph this sport in the blistering sun, dust clouds, thunderstorms, gale force winds, fog, plus snow and ice. My job is to get the shots, then deliver as quickly as I can.
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Media Matters, Part 2
Secure Digital (SD) Card Breakdown
If you have an SD card that’s an SDXC UHS-II, U3, Class 10, V90, what do you really have? Let’s break down the ratings and descriptions.
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