Exascend’s Element CFexpress offer a unique balance of performance and price, delivering high-end cinematography performance at an attractive price point. Designed to keep up with 8K RAW and burst photography workloads, Exascend Element CFexpress is the perfect partner for enthusiast cinematographers and photographers.
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The Exascend Element series provides high CFexpress performance ready to tackle enthusiast cinematography and photography.
Exascend Element is designed for cinematography, featuring Exascend's signature cinematography-enhancing firmware technologies.
Element is our entry-level CFexpress, providing ample performance at a competitive price for creators to upgrade to next-gen CFexpress storage.
With extreme sustained read performance at 1,800 MB/s, offloading your footage with Exascend Element is a breeze.
The Element series is Exascend’s entry-level CFexpress lineup, combining cinematography-optimized performance with a price point that lowers the barrier for upgrading to next-generation CFexpress storage. Boasting generous maximum read and write speeds, sustained speeds ready to take on 8K RAW and reliability you can trust your best footage with, Exascend Element is a great choice for cinema and photo enthusiasts.
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If you’re ready for a cinematography upgrade, place an order directly with our retail partners or send us a product inquiry if you want to learn more.
Our unique Adaptive Thermal Control™ technology tackles the issue of overheating and thermal throttling that is unavoidable in high-performance PCIe NVMe flash storage devices.
Afterburner™ is a performance-enhancing Exascend technology that leverages SLC cache to boost sequential read and write speeds in storage devices with 3D TLC NAND.
SuperCruise™ is a signature Exascend technology that optimizes write performance for stability – ensuring unbeatable stable write performance even in the most demanding applications.
| Image | Model Name | Form factor | Capacity (GB) | Max. seq. read (MB/s) | Max. seq. write (MB/s) | TBW (max.) | Inquiry |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | EXPC3S256GB | CFexpress Type B | 256 | 1800 | 1200 | 150 | |
 | EXPC3S512GB | CFexpress Type B | 512 | 1800 | 1200 | 300 | |
 | EXPC3S001TB | CFexpress Type B | 1024 | 1800 | 1400 | 600 |
| Element CFexpress | |
| Edition | Element |
| Physical information | |
| Form factor | CFexpress Type B |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 (Supports NVMe 1.4) |
| Capacity | 256–1,024GB |
| Flash type | 3D TLC |
| Input voltage | 3.3V±5% |
| Power consumption | Active <4.5W; Idle <0.3W |
| Performance | |
| Maximum sequential read (MB/s) | 1,800 |
| Maximum sequential write (MB/s) | 1,400 |
| Max. 4K random read (IOPS) | 300,000 |
| Max. 4K random write (IOPS) | 250,000 |
| Reliability/endurance | |
| Operational temperature (°C) | -10–70 |
| Storage temperature (°C) | -40–85 |
| UBER | 1 sector per 10^17 bits read |
| TBW (max.) | 600 |
| MTBF (hours) | 2,000,000 |
| Warranty (years) | 3 |
