Exascend’s Essential series provides cinematography-grade performance in the CFexpress Type B form factor. Optimized for professional workloads and enhanced with patented technologies that ensure top-level stability and no dropped frames, it’s the perfect choice for high-end video capture and burst photography.
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The Essential series unlocks the true performance of CFexpress, delivering enterprise-level performance in a minuscule card format.
It's finally time to forget about frame drops. With Exascend's exclusive stability-enhancing technologies, stable top performance is here.
Exascend's CFexpress cards are built to last and provide top-level performance in even the most demanding environments.
We work closely with camera manufacturers and creators to engineer cards that bring out the best of any system – for any shoot.
Exascend Essential CFexpress is an essential tool for unleashing the true potential of your professional camera system. Featuring extreme sustained write performance and Exascend’s industry-leading storage technologies, Exascend Essential CFexpress is capable of seamless 8K RAW capture and beyond. No dropped frames. No overheating. Just pure performance that will take your cinematography to the next level.
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If you’re ready to take your cinematography to the next level, place an order directly with our retail partners or send us a product inquiry if you want to learn more.
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.
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.
Exascend offers unlimited over-provisioning (OP), allowing customers to set the ideal level of OP to match their application’s exact demands. No artificial limitations. Unlimited flexibility.
Our unique level of control over hardware, firmware and manufacturing enables us to provide unmatched tuning services. By tuning the performance of our product specifically for your applications, we can achieve the highest possible performance to thermals and performance to power ratios.
SuperCruise™ is a signature Exascend technology that optimizes write performance for stability – ensuring unbeatable stable write performance even in the most demanding applications.
The CFE4 Essential also supports AES-256, data retention, firmware encryption, RAID ECC, TCG Opal, multi-image firmware backup, and other Exascend technologies.
| Image | Model Name | Form factor | Capacity (GB) | Max. seq. read (MB/s) | Max. seq. write (MB/s) | TBW (max.) | Inquiry |
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| Essential CFexpress | |
| Edition | Essential |
| Physical information | |
| Form factor | CFexpress Type B |
| Interface | PCIe 3.0 (Supports NVMe 1.4) |
| Capacity | 128GB | 256GB | 512GB | 1TB | 2TB |
| 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) | 1,700 |
| Minimum sustained read (MB/s) | 1,800 |
| Minimum sustained write (MB/s) | 1,400 |
| Reliability/endurance | |
| Operational temperature (°C) | -10–70 |
| Storage temperature (°C) | -40–85 |
| Max. TBW (TB) | 1,200 |
| MTBF (hours) | 2,000,000 |
| Warranty (years) | 5 |
| Title | Size |
| Essential CFexpress Type B: CFexpress Type B engineered for true professionals | 1.11 MB |
| Exascend CFexpress Type B lineup (Nitro, Essential, Element) | 3.82 MB |
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