The Lexar Professional CFexpress Type B Card SILVER Series is a CFexpress 2.0 card rated at up to 1750MB/s read and 1300MB/s write. Digital Camera World gave it 5 out of 5 stars after its 128GB sample matched a SanDisk Extreme PRO on read speed and beat it on write speed, Amateur Photographer rated the 128GB card 4.5 out of 5 and called the series possibly the best value in CFexpress Type B, and Camera Jabber gave the 1TB version 5 out of 5. The trade-off is sustained write speed: the 128GB and 256GB sizes are rated at 480MB/s, well below Lexar's own Gold cards, and Digital Camera World notes that no recovery software is included.
Full review
Rated speeds and how they change with capacity
Lexar rates every card in the SILVER series at up to 1750MB/s read and 1300MB/s write over a PCIe 3.0 x2 interface. Digital Camera World points out that the minimum sustained write speed varies a great deal by size: 480MB/s for the 128GB and 256GB cards, 850MB/s for 512GB and 1200MB/s for 1TB.
Lexar's Americas product page currently lists the 128GB and 256GB capacities, both at 480MB/s sustained write, with a 10-year limited warranty and an operating range of -10°C to 70°C.
Digital Camera World's test against SanDisk
Digital Camera World tested the 128GB card against a SanDisk Extreme PRO. Both copied a 25GB folder of RAW files to an SSD in 38 seconds, and the reviewer found the Lexar considerably quicker on write speed while costing about half as much at the time of the review. Its verdict called the card a no-brainer and gave it 5 out of 5 stars.
The same review lists the downsides: speeds that depend on capacity, a 128GB base size that fills quickly, and no recovery software, where SanDisk includes a year of RescuePro Deluxe.
Amateur Photographer's in-camera experience
Amateur Photographer's Andy Westlake used the SILVER cards while testing cameras including the 100MP Fujifilm GFX100 II and the 60MP Leica SL3. He reports that they were perfectly reliable and that he struggled to identify any real-world limitation. Copying files to a computer was no slower than with Lexar's Gold cards, since both were limited to about 1000MB/s by his card readers.
He adds that the faster Gold cards should do better for extended high-speed bursts or internal RAW video, and that Lexar makes rugged-durability claims for the Gold series that it does not make for the SILVER, although he could see no difference in construction. His rating is 4.5 out of 5.
Camera Jabber's results with the 1TB card
Camera Jabber reviewed the 1TB version, which carries the higher 1200MB/s sustained rating, in a Canon EOS R5 C. It recorded 4K at the camera's highest internal quality settings with no issues, and a Blackmagic Disk Speed Test on a 16-inch MacBook Pro M1 returned 1907MB/s write and 1518MB/s read.
Camera Jabber notes that XQD compatibility requires a firmware update on some cameras, that the XQD-only Sony FS7 will not work with the card, and that no integrity software is supplied. It still rated the card 5 out of 5. Those benchmark figures belong to the 1TB card and should not be assumed for the 128GB and 256GB sizes.
Strengths
- +Read speed matched a SanDisk Extreme PRO in Digital Camera World's 25GB file-copy test, with faster write speed
- +Ran reliably in the Fujifilm GFX100 II and Leica SL3 for Amateur Photographer
- +Backwards-compatible with select XQD cameras
- +10-year limited warranty
Watch-outs
- −128GB and 256GB sizes are rated at only 480MB/s sustained write
- −No recovery software included, unlike SanDisk's Extreme PRO cards (Digital Camera World)
- −Not the fastest CFexpress card available (Amateur Photographer)
How it compares
The Lexar SILVER is a CFexpress 2.0 card rated at 1750MB/s read and 1300MB/s write, about half the 3650MB/s read and 3000MB/s write listed for the OWC Atlas Pro and OWC Atlas Ultra CFexpress 4.0 cards and close to the SanDisk Pro-Cinema's 1700MB/s read and 1500MB/s write. Its 480MB/s sustained write rating in the 128GB and 256GB sizes is below the 800MB/s listed for the OWC Atlas Pro and the Pro-Cinema's 1400MB/s minimum. Its 10-year limited warranty is longer than the 3-year warranty listed for the OWC Atlas Pro.
Price history
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