Lexar Media Professional Series CompactFlash (CF) cards with Write Acceleration (WA) technology provide the highest guaranteed sustained write speed of any CF card with incremental throughput provided by WA in enabled digital cameras.

When a Lexar Media CF card with Write Acceleration (WA) technology is used in a WA-enabled camera, the camera and card are able to communicate using a much more efficient protocol then a non-WA card, eliminating the redundant data confirmation steps used by standard CF cards. This can significantly improve the time it takes for a professional digital still camera to save images to the CF card (up to 25% faster). This performance enhancement however is only possible when Lexar Media CF cards with WA technology are used together with WA enabled cameras.

The Best Of All Worlds:  If a CF card with WA technology is used in a camera that is not WA-enabled, the card will still function normally at the labeled speed rating of the CF card and will not have any further performance enhancement. By the same token, cameras with Write Acceleration technology will work with non-WA enabled CF cards and also function at the labeled speed rating of the CF card.