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It isn't just about speed, an XQD camera has been relieved of the hardware and firmware which ordered the data into a form the SD (or CF) card could store. This speeds up the storage process and saves energy, reduces battery consumption.
The move to PCIe storage is becoming universal, speed and reduced energy consumption are the result. How often do you use a spinning CF card? LOL Economy of scale will eventually come into play once everybody adopts the new medium.
I am now running my Mac Pro on PCIe cards with directly mounted SSDs and the difference is amazing. Eventually I will move onto an M2 for the OS. I have tried one but it's been flashed for PC format and refused to be flashed back to Mac. I am seeing speeds of well over 1000MB/sec, even my external striped RAID G-drive was passing 400+MB/sec yesterday. PCIe SSD booting from chime to signing in is a mere 23 seconds. SATA SSD booting was over a minute. With spinning drive it was ... go have a cuppa! LOL
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Robert.