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Cost-effective, highest-quality memory card for the most demanding needs of professional photographers and the most common use cases of professional filmmakers
- Pro speed: up to 1500MB/s write and 1700MB/s read real-world speeds for the most advanced use cases of professional content creators including fast burst RAW image sequences and high bitrate video recording up to 6K12
- Supportive: fully compatible with a wide variety of DSLR and mirrorless cameras
- Compliant: fully meets CFexpress Type B 1.0 and 2.0 specifications
- Effective: 128GB and 256GB capacities for XQD format cameras that have been updated to support CFexpress
- Tough: impact, bend, shock, ESD, UV ray, and x-ray resistant
Awesome Professional Performance Made Affordable
When you want a CFexpress Type B memory card that checks all the boxes for all the most common professional workflow needs, Atlas Pro CFexpress is your cost-effective choice. You’ll enjoy awesome performance for the most demanding photo projects including intermediate action sports and wildlife photos. Capture up to 6K high bitrate video. Whether you’re a photographer using a firmware updated XQD camera and only need modest storage or are a filmmaker using the latest camera, there’s an Atlas Pro CFexpress card in the optimal capacity for your specific need.
Quality In = Quality Output
Thanks to an extremely thorough quality control process, you can work fearlessly knowing that your Atlas Pro CFexpress card will flawlessly deliver the speed and data integrity you need when you only have one chance to capture the moment. Quality in, quality output. The Atlas Pro CFexpress is the difference-maker for your high-end workflows and maximum camera setting uses.
Shoot, Store, and Swap… Anywhere
Atlas Pro CFexpress cards can shrug off the toughest environmental challenges, including x-rays, UV rays, shocks, drops, and extreme temperatures. Go ahead…shoot, store, and swap with total peace of mind. Atlas Pro CFexpress cards have your work – and your back – well protected.
Truth in Numbers
Big theoretical performance numbers are certainly eye-catchers, but they are misleading when your workflow requires real-world speed. That’s why we take the extra time to run OWC flash storage solutions through intensive performance testing, and we share our test setup and parameters. Truthfully listing Atlas Pro CFexpress cards for reliable peak performance up to 1500MB/s write, 1700MB/s read, and up to 400MB/s sustained write speed defines our commitment to the “OWC Difference,” which ensures these CFexpress Type B cards will deliver the performance you are counting on.
Who is it for?
- Intermediate action sports photographers
- Intermediate outdoor/wildlife photographers
- Individual pro photo / video creatives with advanced capabilities
- Film production companies
What is it for?
- Capturing the winning play of the game in clear detail
- Creating a freeze-frame sequence of a cheetah running down prey
- Branded, huge following influencers needing to create enhanced, professional-looking content for their channels
- Product photo shoots
Get Maximum Performance from Your Atlas Pro CFexpress Cards
Details matter when it comes to obtaining the highest performance from your CFexpress card. Only use a high-quality CFexpress Type B memory card reader such as the OWC Atlas FXR that has been specifically designed and extensively test-proven to deliver effective heat dissipation so your memory card will deliver maximum sustained throttle-free performance.
If you must use a camera or reader that doesn’t dissipate heat effectively, Atlas Pro CFexpress cards have built-in protection that automatically reduces speed to prevent heat damage while ensuring a safe to handle temperature.
Innergize Your Workflow with Highest Performance and Reliability
OWC Innergize™ is the first stage of the Capture to Completion™ ecosystem of OWC products designed to seamlessly propel professional photographers, videographers, and content creators to the highest level of workflow performance and reliability. This OWC custom-designed app is a complete health, performance, and field upgrade management tool when using OWC Atlas memory cards with OWC Atlas readers and reader-equipped products. Learn More »
Work with Maximum Confidence and Reliability
Health
Over time and use cycles, flash memory does wear out. Innergize verifies and reports the percentage of use life remaining. Now you can work with full confidence your OWC flash memory product will deliver the reliability you can trust.
Sanitize
Writes, deletes, and formatting all take their toll on memory cards. Innergize cleans and restores the flash memory performance of OWC memory cards so you can get the best results on every use.
Field Upgrade
When new cameras or firmware updates to existing cameras are introduced, they may not work properly with flash memory cards and drives. Innergize gives OWC memory card users the ability to quickly upgrade their firmware in the field for full compatibility, additional performance enhancements, and bug fixes for optimal reliability.
- Up to 1500MB/s write / up to 1700MB/s read peak performance was observed based on testing OWC Atlas Pro CFexpress cards in an Ableconn PEX-CF106 PCI Express 3.0 x4 Host Adapter Card in a Gigabyte Aorus Master X570 motherboard with an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 4.9GHz CPU and 32GB RAM, in Windows 10 Pro using Crystal Disk Mark (1GB file size). Sustained write speeds up to 140MB/s for the 128GB card, up to 300MB/s for the 256GB card, and up to 400MB/s for the 512GB-2TB cards was observed.
- Performance will vary depending on host hardware, software, usage, and Atlas Pro CFexpress card storage capacity used.
- Atlas Pro CFexpress cards in 512GB and higher capacities are recommended for 6K video recording.
Includes
- (1) OWC Atlas Pro CFexpress Type B Memory Card
- (1) Jewel Case
- 3-Year OWC Limited Warranty
- Memory Card Bus PCIe 3.0 x2
- Memory Card Type CFexpress Type B
- Capacity 256GB
- Sequential Read (Max) Up to 1700 MB/s
- Sequential Write (Max) Up to 1400 MB/s
- Sustained Write (Max) Up to 300 MB/s
- Dimensions Height: 0.4 cm (0.1 in) Length: 3.9 cm (1.5 in) Width: 3.0 cm (1.2 in)
- Country of Origin Taiwan
- TAA Compliance Yes
- Ambient Temperature Operating: 14°F to 158°F (-10°C to 70°C) Non-Operating: -4°F to 185°F (-20°C to 85°C)
- Blackmagic Cinema 6K - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Canon C300 Mark III - recommended
- Canon C500 Mark III - recommended
- Canon 1DX Mark III - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Canon EOS R3 - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Canon EOS R5 - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Canon EOS R5C - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Fujifilm X-H2 / X-H2S - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Fujifilm GFX100 II - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Nikon Z9 - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Nikon Z8 - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Nikon Z6 / Z7 - recommended
- Nikon Z6 II / Z7 II - recommended
- Nikon D500 - recommended
- Nikon D850 - recommended
- Nikon D5 - recommended
- Nikon D6 - recommended
- Panasonic GH6 - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings
- Panasonic S1 / S1R - recommended
- PhaseOne XF IQ4 - recommended
- Sony Burano - compatible, but not at highest resolution settings