ProGrade launches new high-capacity Gold Series CFexpress Type B memory cards | Canon Rumors

ProGrade has launched new high-capcity CFexpress cards to their Gold line of memory cards. The new memory cards are available for preorder from B&H Photo.

Overview

Designed for emerging mainstream imaging applications, the 512GB CFexpress 2.0 Type B Gold Memory Card from ProGrade Digital provides read speeds of up to 1700 MB/s, which helps to quickly offload content to your computer, and write speeds of up to 1500 MB/s. Additionally, the Gold’s minimum write speed is guaranteed not to drop below 400 MB/s, which allows for the uninterrupted recording of a wide variety of codecs, including raw 4K video, 4K and 6K ProRes 4444, 4K, 6K, and 8K ProRes 422 HQ, and more. This card is resistant to temperature extremes, shock, vibration, and X-rays, and is also backward compatible with select XQD cameras that adopt firmware to enable CFexpress. This card also takes advantage of an NVMe host controller interface and backward compatibility with CFexpress 1.0.

ProGrade Gold General Features

• Fully compliant with CompactFlash Association CFexpress Type B 1.0 and 2.0 specifications
• XQD host interoperable with firmware support from device manufacturer
• Metal enclosure/encasement to endure high temperatures while providing better thermal conductivity
• Built-in thermal throttling to protect your card and its content in the event of overheating
• Designed to provide improved performance for flagship cinema, video, and photography cameras
• Optimized controllers specifically designed for use in professional-grade cameras
• Rigorous full card testing with serialized tracking of key components and manufacturing data for high quality control
• Component-level testing down to individual memory chips for greater reliability
• Refresh Pro enabled to quickly refresh card performance and monitor card health

Preorder the new ProGrade CFexpress Gold