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Review on Lexar Professional VPG 65 CompactFlash LCF32GCRBNA1066 by Jeffrey Crutcher

Revainrating 5 out of 5

High quality card with high bandwidth and good customer service.

Bought this card to use in the Canon 5D III to capture 1080p Magic Lantern video and it does exactly that. When searching for the fastest CF (non-CFAST) card in mid-2016, there were two options for 1066x cards, and I always went with this Lexar over Komputerbay, for three reasons: 1. There's no nasty spelling here. 2. Having called earlier for a replacement card, I can confirm that Lexar USA's after-sales service is good, especially if you are having problems with a product malfunction.3. The price is extremely competitive for a 128GB4 card. The speed is great. It's one of the few cards that can handle the ultra-high bandwidth of 1080p RAW video. See attached screenshots. Speed tests performed using Crystal Disk Mark, 64-bit and 32-bit versions tested on Windows 10 64-bit with a card formatted in NTFS (4K allocation unit size) and ExFAT (128 KB allocation unit size). . No more than 2% discrepancy between all test numbers - well within the expected standard deviation.

Pros
  • Few competitors
Cons
  • Suitable for