# CFExpress Card Compability

**URL:** <https://community.br-automation.com/t/cfexpress-card-compability/11049>\
**Category:** HMI & Visualization\
**Tags:** automation-runtime\
**Created:** [April 27, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://community.br-automation.com/t/cfexpress-card-compability/11049 "2026-04-27T11:30:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tark\_Sofu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/FF8800/32.png) [@Tark\_Sofu](https://community.br-automation.com/u/Tark_Sofu)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 11:30am UTC](https://community.br-automation.com/t/cfexpress-card-compability/11049/1 "2026-04-27T11:30:32Z")

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Hello,

For the APC 3200 could you suggest a CFExpress card instead of the one provided by B&R?

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**Author:** ![alexander.hefner](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/brcommunity/user_avatar/community.br-automation.com/alexander.hefner/32/111_2.png) [@alexander.hefner](https://community.br-automation.com/u/alexander.hefner)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://community.br-automation.com/t/cfexpress-card-compability/11049/2 "2026-04-27T13:18:26Z")

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Hi and welcome to our community,

Unfortunately we can’t recommend other CFe cards beside the ones from B&R.

Just for explanation: the’re no special mechanisms that prohibit or suppress the usage of other cards. But just the B&R cards are really tested for the different use cases, for example about read/write speed, firmware compatibility, endurance, reliability and so on.

For any other cards we don’t have such tests, and therefore we simply don’t know about / can’t guarantee compatibility or usage.

Best regards!

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**Author:** ![kovarj](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/brcommunity/user_avatar/community.br-automation.com/kovarj/32/537_2.png) [@kovarj](https://community.br-automation.com/u/kovarj)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.br-automation.com/t/cfexpress-card-compability/11049/3 "2026-04-27T13:26:56Z")

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This question has two sides. I think most CFExpress cards you can buy will work, but:

- you will not get support from B&R (not on card only but on functionality itself)
- and it can happen that sooner or later your machine could stop working because of bad functionality.

I was already on a couple of services caused by using non-B&R-proven and even non-industrial versions of CF cards used on the machine. Confusion and service costs are much higher then. So be smart and please use the B&R one 🙂