A dead format?

That’s over five times faster than SD 4.0 cards but as PetaPixelhighlights, there’s one small problem.

Lexar’s latest is backward compatible with existing SD card devices, but only to UHS-I class.

Lexar’s new SD 8.0 card is fast, but no devices fully support it

PetaPixel doubts the card will ever make it to market, and they are probably not wrong.

A Lexar 800 MB/s SD Express card announced back in 2021 never surfaced, either.

“This specification is and always has been too broken and flawed to be adopted.”

Lexar and others offer plenty of speedy CFexpress cards across a range of price points and capacities.