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Angelbird CFExpress for R5/R5C for (mainly) video

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ThoreauAZ Regular Member • Posts: 111
Re: Angelbird CFExpress for R5/R5C for (mainly) video
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My video use is pretty minimal, but in my ultra-limited testing, I can say that (after a warranty swap from a defective card) that my Angelbird AV Pro MK2 1TB does not appear to exhibit any issues with recording video (tested full on 8k raw.)  In-camera performance is actually the ONLY performance they actually seem to stand behind, but for many, that is the most critical aspect.
For me, I buy into fast cards mainly for the fast offload to my computer, and that's where the Angelbird CF Express stuff falls flat on its face.  I get FAR better read speeds out of both my Sony and Sandisk cards.  1700MB/s in Sony land vs 700MB/s in Angelbird land.

*IF* that's important to you, I'd probably look elsewhere.

FWIW, their support claimed that the full read/write performance would only work in-camera, and on a Thunderbolt card reader (NOT the otherwise very nice Angelbird reader though) because those both use native PCI Express interfaces.  If you have that, then it could be moot.   I actually have a ProGrade Thunderbolt reader inbound right now (they were out of stock everywhere for a while) and intend to test that claim in the next week or so.  Really hoping it pans out since I've kept the Angelbird stuff buried in the camera bag as emergency-only, last-resort storage ever since discovering the real world transfer performance.

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