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I've been using two of these for almost two years now and while they are not available rn I've seen them be out of stock and come back in stock a bunch of times. Interms of price difference yes and no. Basically these adapters are just electrical connections since CFexpress cards are literally just an NVME electrical interface, like a microSD to SD card adapter. So there's no firmware, no circuit, no "translation" just electrical traces or wires. That being said both NVME drives and CFexpress cards get hot so I would only use full metal adaptors and in both of mine I have use high performance thermal paste on both sides of the drive to use the metal case as a heatsink. Absolutely avoid any adapter that uses any plastic whatsoever. Other than that I'd say look for ones that claim PCIE 4.0 or CFexpress type b 4.0 since most drives are capable of way faster speeds than even the fastest CFexpress cards so you'll wanna be able to take advantage of that. Just keep in mind that you'll have to get a card reader to match those specs. I edit RAW video off of my cards no problem with the right reader.