Model: SanDisk Extreme II 240GB Solid State Drive
Manufacturer: SanDisk
Provided by: SanDisk
SanDisk is the leader in storage for more than 20 years. Founded in 1988 by Dr. Eli Harari, the company has grown from a startup in Silicon Valley for three people to the largest global supplier of solutions for flash memory storage. The company offers a wide range of products including memory cards, USB drives, SSD and its popular line of music players and video to Sansa.
With the launch of the far last spring, SanDisk made its long-awaited entry into the high-performance SSD market. Designed with enthusiasts and gamers in mind, the far was powered by the SandForce SF-processor LSI 2281 and marked a SATA 6 GB/s interface, native and TRIM support DuraClass technology. The unit also uses a custom firmware and 24nm MLC NAND Mode Toggle flash SanDisk to offer speeds up to 10 times faster than a 7,200 RPM hard drive.
The exhibition of this year's Computex, SanDisk has announced the successor to the extreme. Aptly named the II Extreme, this ultra-thin SSD is powered by a Marvell 88SS9187 controller "Monet" and features new SanDisk 19nm ABL eX2 Toggle NAND flash MLC to carry up to 550 MB/s sequential read and 510 MB/s sequential write speed of s. Extreme II also features a system of multi-level caching which includes a large DRAM cache as well as supporting nCache by SanDisk. Designed to improve random write performance, nCache uses a non-volatile cache SLC great to amass small writes at high speed and then empty them to larger sections of MLC NAND flash memory.
Extreme II is available with capacities of 120 GB, 240 and 480 GB. For this review, SanDisk sent us the 240GB version of the disc that comes with 256 MB of onboard cache and is capable of delivering up to 550 MB/s sequential read and 510 MB/s sequential write speeds and up to 95,000 78,000 random random read and write IOPS.
SanDisk Extreme II 240 GB Solid State DriveGeneral specifications SDSSDXP-240 g-G25 (Notebook Bundle)SDSSDXP-240 g-G26 (Desktop Bundle)
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Other technology features nCache
Dynamic and static Wear-Leveling
Bad block management
Background Garbage Collection
Supports TRIM, SMART and NCQ
Five year warranty
Needless to say, this is just a taste of what the extreme II has to offer. To give you an idea of what to expect, there will be a closer look at the new SanDisk SSD and then see how well it performs. Extreme II has what it takes? Can provide the value and performance that we've come to expect from SanDisk? Continue reading as we find.
