They take their name after the specification released by CompactFlash Association

Feb 13, 2014 14:10 GMT  ·  By

Apacer could have given its newest memory cards any name, but it chose instead to call it exactly what it is: a CFast 2.0 memory card.

Well, that's not perfectly accurate because the company didn't launch just one card, but several.

There are SLC-based (single-level cell NAND Flash memory) cards in 4 GB to 32 GB capacities, and MLC-based cards (multi-level cell) in 16 GB to 128 GB.

The former are more reliable, but the latter are cheaper. Well, insofar as the capacity difference allows.

Anyway, the new CFast 2.0 cards are very fast (that's what the CompactFlash 2.0 specification is for), enabling transfer speeds of 310 MB/s read and 240 MB/s write.

40-bit ECC (Error Correcting Code), Wear Leveling Technology and S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) are present on all of them.