CFexpress

Give me a small bit of internal memory, wifi, and a thunderbolt port and your investment memory cards all together.
Lots of the CF-B cards have metal heat spreaders to distribute that heat away from the die to prevent failure of the memory cells, but still that heat is used in the camera body to be dissipated to the surroundings.
It is possible to record compressed RAW video on a good V30 Sdcard, on cameras like C70 and BMPCC.
SSD storage happens to be mostly external in comparison to internal SD card which offers redundant recording and safer connection.
CFExpress card can be a kind of SSD solution but because it is internal and needs to be compact for mirrorless camera, camera companies have the excuse to use a proprietary and expensive solution.

doesn’t come cheap.
Sony’s new 320GB and 640GB cards retail for $649.99 and $1249.99, respectively.
For comparison, Sony’s equivalent 256GB and 512GB CFexpress Type B Tough cards retail for $299.99 and $449.99, respectively.

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I recall the Canon R5 having so many problems and bugs with some brands of CF type B cards.
SD cards can take care of virtually all scenarios still though.
I run my A1 with CF Express A for 30fps RAW and and SD for JPEGS.
But the camera actually works just fine with two SD cards, especially if its SD v90 cards.
You evidently haven’t learned that sony owners usually do not want those porky cfx-b cards because they don’t work in small form factors.

• Version 1.0 will use the XQD form-factor (38.5 mm × 29.8 mm × 3.8 mm) with two PCIe 3.0 lanes for boosts to 2 GB/s.
• So unless you’re attempting to shoot 2600MBit compressed raw footage or even worse 7000MBit 8k60, those Inexpensive SD cards work fine.
• People can want all they need, the inexperience shows why it is not the case.
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I’m not likely to claim to learn SSD failure rates, but it seems like it’s most likely not an issue en-mass.
For any individual that suffers a storage failure it might be painful, but that’s exactly the same for each and every other component in a camera, be it the LCD, shutter, sensor, or processor.
So I’m likely to chime in here as my use case is one of the very few that sees huge benefit to using CF/A over even the fastest SD cards.
I shoot hybrid weddings where I’m constantly switching between stills and video.
I often will snap a burst of stills then quickly start recording a video clip, then back again to stills.
I switch between the two so fast therefore often that I never bother switching to the dedicated video mode on my A1; I just hit the record button while in stills mode.
The thing is that Sony cameras won’t take up a video unless the buffer is cleared.

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I have no clue what the OP shoots (could possibly be some specialist niche photography.. astro stacking?) but I would like to know…
As long as it’s not 4k video 500gb of stills in a couple of hours seem excessive to state the least.
Also the A1 RAW buffer depth is a lot deeper than the z9 (which uses fast card for bursts more than frames) so in almost all cases you don’t need the super fast buffer clearing you get from the CF-A cards.
Retailers will want to attach these to your own future camera purchases.

All cards were tested cold to avoid any thermal throttling.
While I have a more recent M1 Mac Mini the speed of the USB-C port is much slower as there seems to be some other bottleneck in the essential M1 Macs slowing things down.
Intel or AMD users with new motherboards will be able to get the appropriate 20Gbps from USB 3.2.
You can usually get this reader bundled with Lexar cards and sometimes they offer some significant savings.
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Yes, it will very much drop in cost when competitors have alternatives.
Like it has been around electronics going back few decades.
I’m arguing for the use of Type A, not these 640GB options are $1000+, that’s already well past established.
You’re just twisting arguments to fit your narrative, you should really stop that and actually start reading my posts.
It’s the identical to last time you started bashing Type A. Just because you personally can’t stand Type A doesn’t mean that’s a universal opinion that everyone must conform to.
You don’t even agree that there’s a single point to the format, which is just baffling.
@nokiron it seems that you are still paying the early adopter tax for the 160GB 24 months later.

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Some consumer SSDs fall back to HDD speed once the SLC cache is filled.
So you argument simply by outcheaping on performance, yes, you always can get cheaper for lower performance.
What’s right to suit your needs is probably not right for everybody else, and that’s fine.

Your gripes of unreliability and cost are undermined by easily available information.
It’s unclear how you would even stand to own a camera, given how many integrated components they contain and how often said components may fail.
Regarding heat, the CFExpress cards already are inside the camera, without heat sinks to speak of.
Whether they are soldered on or not makes no difference, the integrated component might even transfer heat better.
CFExpress is merely using power efficient components, and efficient M.2 drives