Guru3D.com
  • HOME
  • NEWS
    • Channels
    • Archive
  • DOWNLOADS
    • New Downloads
    • Categories
    • Archive
  • GAME REVIEWS
  • ARTICLES
    • Rig of the Month
    • Join ROTM
    • PC Buyers Guide
    • Guru3D VGA Charts
    • Editorials
    • Dated content
  • HARDWARE REVIEWS
    • Videocards
    • Processors
    • Audio
    • Motherboards
    • Memory and Flash
    • SSD Storage
    • Chassis
    • Media Players
    • Power Supply
    • Laptop and Mobile
    • Smartphone
    • Networking
    • Keyboard Mouse
    • Cooling
    • Search articles
    • Knowledgebase
    • More Categories
  • FORUMS
  • NEWSLETTER
  • CONTACT

New Reviews
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 review
PowerColor RX 6650 XT Hellhound White review
FSP Hydro PTM Pro (1200W PSU) review
ASUS ROG Radeon RX 6750 XT STRIX review
AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 2.0 - preview
Sapphire Radeon RX 6650 XT Nitro+ review
Sapphire Radeon RX 6950 XT Sapphire Nitro+ Pure review
Sapphire Radeon RX 6750 XT Nitro+ review
MSI Radeon RX 6950 XT Gaming X TRIO review
MSI Radeon RX 6750 XT Gaming X TRIO review

New Downloads
AIDA64 Download Version 6.70
FurMark Download v1.30
Display Driver Uninstaller Download version 18.0.5.1
Download Samsung Magician v7.1.1.820
Intel ARC graphics Driver Download Version: 30.0.101.1732
HWiNFO Download v7.24
GeForce 512.77 WHQL driver download
Intel HD graphics Driver Download Version: 30.0.101.1960
AMD Radeon Software Adrenalin 22.5.1 WHQL driver download
3DMark Download v2.22.7359 + Time Spy


New Forum Topics
Rumor: NVIDIA could unveil a GeForce GTX 1630 this month Review: AMD Ryzen 5 5600 processor Intel Arc desktop graphics cards from Intel are further delayed (could be September at the earliest) Multiplane overlay issues MSI AB / RTSS development news thread Herman Miller and Logitech G Enhance the Embody Chair For Pro Gamers NVIDIA GeForce 512.77 WHQL driver download & Discussion AMD Patents Automatic Memory Overclocking Tool 3090 Ti owners thread 5900x or 5800x3D?




Guru3D.com » Review » SanDisk Extreme II 120 - 240 and 480 GB SSD review » Page 1

SanDisk Extreme II 120 - 240 and 480 GB SSD review - Article

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/03/2013 09:22 PM [ 5] 8 comment(s)

Tweet

The SanDisk Extreme II SSD series

SanDisk today releases their all new Extreme II series SSD, which we benchmark and review. These SSDs, for the bigger part, are made in-house by SanDisk themselves including the PCB design and the actual NAND storage flash memory. The end result is a blazing fast SSD series that even surprised us when it comes to raw read performance. The SSD series has been developed alongside a Marvel controller tied to SanDisk NAND flash memory, it is amongst the fastest drives we have ever tested!

While stability and safety of your data have become a number one priority for the manufacturers, the technology keeps advancing in a fast pace as it does, the performance numbers a good SSD offers these days are simply breathtaking. 450 to 500 MB/sec on SATA3 is the norm for a single controller based SSD. Next to that, in the past year NAND flash memory (the storage memory used inside an SSD) has become much cheaper as well. Prices now roughly settle at just under 1 USD per GB for the end-user. As such, SSD technology and NAND storage have gone mainstream. The market is huge, fierce and competitive, but it brought us where we are today offering nice volume SSDs at way more acceptable prices.

Combined with with very fast performance, SanDisk figured, let's take the Marvell Monet (88SS9187-BLD2) controller and combine it with their own and latest 19nm NAND flash memory. Combined with their own highly evolved firmware that forms the essence that is the Extreme II series. The Extreme II is a SATA 3 (also known as SATA 6G, SATA 6 Gbps and SATA 600) SSD that has been beefed up to shock, awe and conquer. The device passes 500 MB/s in both read and writes (depending on the volume size of the SSD).

Now I state this in all my SSD reviews; not one test system in my lab has a HDD, everything runs on SSD while I receive and retrieve my bigger chunks of data from a NAS server here in the office. The benefits are performance, speed, low power consumption and no noise. Today's product passed crazy read speeds of 550 MB/sec with measured write speeds of 520 MB/sec (for the 240GB version). When you think about that performance and place it in relation to real-world performance (if the source is equally fast), that means you could copy the entire contents of a CDROM in just over a second to the SSD and a DVD in less than 10 seconds.

SanDisk launched this new Extreme II SKUs with a Marvell Monet (88SS9187-BLD2) controller tied to high performance 19nm SanDisk Synchronous NAND. Sandisk submitted the 120 GB, 240 GB and 480 GB model with seriously impressive specs as these models have advertised sustained read/write levels of 550 MB/sec and 510 MB/sec respectively. SanDisk Extreme II SSD supports TRIM and S.M.A.R.T. features and has a mean time between failures (MTBF2) of 2,000,000 hours, making the drives highly reliable to secure valuable personal data, essential for today’s mobile computing applications. And with 4K random write performance estimated at roughly 75,000 IOPS (input/output operations per second) it is here to make a sturdy impression alright. Have a peek, after which we'll dive into the technology behind it and obviously we'll present you a nice phat performance overview.

But talk is cheap, I bet you wanna have a look at the product first, eh? 

 
Sandisk Extreme II 120, 240 and 480GB SSDs with 19nm SanDisk NAND and Marvell 88SS9187 SATA controller




17 pages 1 2 3 4 next »



Related Articles
SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable USB 3.0 SSD review
We review the lightweight SanDisk Extreme 500 Portable SSD. It a very fast portable storage unit based on USB 3.0, combined with the DNA of an SSD it can reach over 400 MB/sec on both reads and over ...

SanDisk Ultra II 240 GB SSD review
SanDisk has released the affordable Ultra II series SSD which we'll benchmark and review. Performance wise these SSDs will be fast, reads exceptional, writes thanks to Toggle NAND flash a little slow...

SanDisk Extreme PRO 240 - 480 and 960 GB SSD review
We revisit the SanDisk Extreme PRO review, this round we will look at all three available models including the 240 - 480 and 960 GB versions. Yeah, Sandisk has released the Extreme Pro series SSD wh...

SanDisk Extreme PRO 480 GB SSD review
SanDisk has released the Extreme Pro series SSD which we benchmark and review. Though performance wise they will only be a notch faster, they offer better endurance, ling lasting performance, 10 year...

© 2022