Whether you’re capturing 4K at 60P RAW video footage to CFexpress™ memory cards, or shooting hundreds of photos in a session and saving them to XQD™ memory cards, the generated files are huge, and the cards fill up fast. Moving those files to your computer for editing is a must, but if you use the wrong tool, you’ll spend a lot of time waiting around. Get a Sonnet SF3™ Series - CFexpress/XQD Pro Card Reader; it’s the ultimate tool for finishing the job fast.
Ingests footage from CFexpress 2.0 Type B cards and XQD cards at up to maximum supported speeds(1).
Dual card slots enable simultaneous ingest of footage from two cards for greater efficiency.
Thunderbolt 3 provides four lanes of PCIe 3.0 (two lanes to each CFexpress/XQD card slot). A Thunderbolt 4 device would be limited to one lane total. Learn more about Thunderbolt 3 performance benefits over Thunderbolt 4.
Small and rugged aluminum enclosure for reliable operation; design enables multiple SF3 Series card readers to occupy same footprint.
Threaded mount points enable secure attachment of two readers side-by-side on a rack tray in just 1U of rack space.
One port connects to computer; second port supports daisy chaining of up to five additional SF3 Series pro card readers.
Sonnet's pro card readers are fully compatible with Thunderbolt 4 computers, and are purposely designed with Thunderbolt 3 (which has four lanes of PCIe 3.0 available).
Compatible with Thunderbolt 2 and Thunderbolt 1 Macs when used with an Apple® Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter and a Thunderbolt 2 cable (both sold separately).
Supports Mac and Windows computers. (Supports only CFexpress cards on M1 Macs.)
Featuring a dual-port 40Gbps Thunderbolt interface(2)(3), this reader ingests footage from all CFast memory cards to Mac and Windows computers with Thunderbolt or Thunderbolt ports—on location, in the studio, or in the edit suite—at up to the fastest speeds the cards will support.
SF3 Series professional media readers are fully compatible with Thunderbolt 4 computers. Sonnet’s media readers are purposely designed with a Thunderbolt 3 controller and its four lanes of PCIe (not available in a Thunderbolt 4 peripheral) to achieve maximum simultaneous ingest speeds. Learn more about the performance benefits of Thunderbolt 3 over Thunderbolt 4.
also compatible with M1 Macs
currently CFexpress cards only; see tech specs for details
No Thunderbolt 3 or 4? No problem—the SF3 Series - CFast 2.0 Pro Card Reader is also compatible with Macs with Thunderbolt 2 or Thunderbolt ports when used with the bi-directional Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter and a Thunderbolt cable (both sold separately).
No Thunderbolt 3 or 4? No problem—the SF3 Series - CFast 2.0 Pro Card Reader is also compatible with Macs with Thunderbolt 2 or Thunderbolt ports when used with the bi-directional Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter and a Thunderbolt cable (both sold separately).
