Working with high-res video? Your memory card may be holding you back

If you’re working with high-resolution video like 4K or 8K, then there is one guarantee to your work: You’re going to produce a monstrous quantity of data. That in turn often means working with many inadequate memory cards. They’re not big enough to store all your data, and certainly not fast enough to get it off the card in a timely manner. But that’s just the price you pay for dealing with UHD video, right?

Not necessarily. A new generation of memory cards using the PCIe 4 protocol is set to increase  memory card performance by 10-fold, ushering in a new era of high-performance, portable storage cards that will finally make dealing with 4K and 8K more viable. The Biwin Amber CB500 CFexpress 4.0 Type B delivers unmatched speed and durability for demanding work on the go.

Reaching new heights

Until recently, even the fastest cards could only manage a few hundred megabytes per second of sustained read and write performance, making mass transfers of files from your supporting devices to a PC or laptop a painfully slow experience. With this next-generation of CB500 CFexpress 4.0 Type B cards, though, there’s a whole new frontier of performance to unlock, which fundamentally changes how you’ll use them.

The 1TB model of Biwin’s CB500 cards can deliver sustained read speeds up to 3,750 MBps, and sustained write speeds up to 3,500 MBps, leveraging the full power of its PCIexpress Gen 4 x2 interface to get data on and off the card faster than ever before. These are designed to work directly with the most high-resolution digital imaging and video cameras out there, with native support for 4K, 6K, and 8K raw recording. They’re ready for future 12K cameras with built in CFxexpress 4 Type B slots, too.

Ultimately, all that means that your waiting days are over. With this next-generation of Biwin CB500 cards, you can get even a full terabyte of data off it and onto your PC or Mac in a matter of seconds, rather than minutes. That boosts productivity, and reduces the number of cards you need, since you can clean one out and get back to using it almost immediately.

Worried about heat? All that added performance does come at a cost, so the Amber CB500 range is built with intelligent thermal control algorithms that help manage performance to modulate heat and prevent thermal throttling. The housing of these cards is made with aluminium and smart conductive layers to aid heat dissipation, too.

Still, there’s no accounting for the environment you’re filming in, so these cards are built to withstand it all. Their operating temperatures range from -12 degrees C, all the way up to 72 degrees C, and you can store them at up to -20 or +85 degrees C, without difficulty. That aluminium shell doubles as a protective housing, too, making these cards almost entirely immune to shock and magnetic interference, as well as physical wear and tear.

Want more? There’s more

What UHD filmmaker couldn’t use additional storage? While the new Biwin CFexpress 4.0 Type B cards are a great fit for all your devices, they’re not the best solution for storing masses of footage on the go. For that, you want either a laptop, or a leaner portable SSD, like Biwin’s PR2000. These drives introduce a whole new generation of portable SSD performance, promising up to 2,050 MB/s of sustained read performance, and up to an 8 TB capacity, making it an all-in-one storage solution for all the data you’ll produce on the move.

Alongside high performance, these drives are built to withstand the elements, too. With an integrated carry loop making transport easy, even in harsh environments, the two-shot, injection-molded design is tough and resilient, with an added silicon cover providing a secondary layer of impact and drop protection.

This is a drive that’s ready for whatever you throw at it.