Every day, the B&H Deal Zone features massive discounts on a small selection of items. The deals are valid for just 24 hours, or while stocks last, and run through until midnight EST. It is not uncommon to find popular items discounted by over 50%, so it’s always worth a look.
I’ve got a great deal for you today. So good that I actually pulled the trigger on this one myself. Most CFexpress Type B card readers use UCB-C, which tops out at around 1000 MB/s in a best-case scenario. Given most of the latest CFexpress Type B cards offer speeds well over 1500 MB/s, using a 3.2 Gen 2 USB-C card reader is a big bottleneck in your workflow. You could be ingesting your photos and videos over 50% faster if you could tap into that additional speed.
This is where Thunderbolt comes in. Thunderbolt has a much higher throughput than USB 3.2 Gen 2, up to (40 Gb/s), which is much faster than any CFexpress Type B card. This means that using a Thunderbolt CFexpress Type B card reader extracts all of the speed available from the card, significantly speeding up your card ingests.
Only a handful of Thunderbolt CFexpress Type B readers are on the market, but one of them, maybe even the best one(!), is on sale today for $79.99 (reg $129). The OWC Atlas FXR Thunderbolt CFexpres Type B card reader is perhaps the smallest reader on the market—a perfect card reader to throw in your bag for travel.
