Sandisk Extreme SSD now at OcUK!

[Andrew Moore]

Hello

Who wants Vertex 4 performance at a price not far above the Agility?

Sync based NAND, Intel 520 levels of performance and all for a price that for the performance CANNOT be beat!


Fantastic SSD with benchmarks coming soon!






Sandisk Extreme SSD 120GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-120G-G25) @ £110.99 inc VAT

Upgrade your laptop for better performance and extend its reliability by replacing your hard disk drive with the SanDisk Extreme® SSD. You’ll enjoy faster boot-ups and open files compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive§. The SanDisk Extreme SSD is backed by rigorous shock and vibration testing and a 3-year limited warranty†. The SanDisk SSD features no moving parts, quiet operation, and low power consumption as compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive.

- Capacity: 120GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-2281
- Maximum Read: 550MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 510MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 500MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 83,000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- 2.5" to 3.5" SSD adaptor included
- Warranty: 3 Years

Only £110.99 inc VAT.

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Sandisk Extreme SSD 240GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-240G-G25) @ £227.99 inc VAT

Upgrade your laptop for better performance and extend its reliability by replacing your hard disk drive with the SanDisk Extreme® SSD. You’ll enjoy faster boot-ups and open files compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive§. The SanDisk Extreme SSD is backed by rigorous shock and vibration testing and a 3-year limited warranty†. The SanDisk SSD features no moving parts, quiet operation, and low power consumption as compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive.

- Capacity: 240GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-2281
- Maximum Read: 550MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 520MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 500MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 83,000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- 2.5" to 3.5" SSD adaptor included
- Warranty: 3 Years

Only £227.99 inc VAT.

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Sandisk Extreme SSD 480GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-480G-G25) @ £469.99 inc VAT

Upgrade your laptop for better performance and extend its reliability by replacing your hard disk drive with the SanDisk Extreme® SSD. You’ll enjoy faster boot-ups and open files compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive§. The SanDisk Extreme SSD is backed by rigorous shock and vibration testing and a 3-year limited warranty†. The SanDisk SSD features no moving parts, quiet operation, and low power consumption as compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive.

- Capacity: 480GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-2281
- Maximum Read: 540MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 460MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 46,000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- 2.5" to 3.5" SSD adaptor included
- Warranty: 3 Years

WAS £599.99 inc VAT.

Only £469.99 inc VAT.

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[Gibbo]

Very fast drives there!

 

[pingwing]

Blimey the 120 and 240 drives are cheap! How have they pulled that one off??

 

[King Damager]

Wow sub £1/gb for 120 and 240 fast as well

kd

 

[shootersam]

Great prices. Might buy a 120GB after my exams.

 

[Ch3m1c4L]

why are they so cheap? Are they using cheaper memory or something that the equivilent vertex etc? Im tempted but would like to know why they are cheaper before I purchased one

 

[Gibbo]

why are they so cheap? Are they using cheaper memory or something that the equivilent vertex etc? Im tempted but would like to know why they are cheaper before I purchased one

This is Sandisk, one of the most premium brands of NAND there is, they are anything but cheap.

 

[andy_mk3]

Prices are certainly heading in the right direction

 

[topdog@OC]

Are the details on that last one correct? Lower max write speed, but disproportionately higher cost per GB and almost half the max IOPS?

I realise prices are usually not linear towards the top end as they cram in more to the same space or have lower yields of the top spec products, but seems to be a couple of oddities as usually the bigger drives have had better performance in the same ranges.

 

[sick-lizard]

does look a bit odd that its cheaper to get 2 x 240gb & you get more performance, can't wait to see some reviews

 

[cainer]

yeah the 480GB model should be loads less than that, and whats with the performance drop on it?

 

[atmax1]

oo I think I may save and buy the 240 :O

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

M4 beaters?

 

[Andrew Moore]

M4 beaters? Who's knows... Certainly an Vertex capable drive, maybe even an Intel 520 capable drive.

Reason for being so cheap? They own 60% of the NAND than is produced in the world (or so was claimed during our meeting) hence the lower price.

Im very excited to see if sandisk have pulled this off as the price/performance leader as this so far looks to be VERY promising.

 

[topdog@OC]

Except in the 480GB bracket? Typos notwithstanding.

 

[topdog@OC]

Scavenged around for my own answers.

What the stats up top don't indicate is that all max IOPS ratings are for the writes, when it comes to reads, they do indeed increase as the disk size increases (23k, 39k, 44k). The drop in max IOPS and write speeds is corroborated by SanDisk's own published stats, the price however is more realistically scaled on their site too (i.e. should be less than double the 240GB model):

http://www.sandisk.com/products/solid-state-drives/sandisk-extreme-solid-state-drive

The disassembly here (link below) maybe helps indicate why the 480GB drops where it does - if it has to utilise all 16 NAND spots on the board (which is probable, the 240GB one is occupying half of them), it places half of the chips further away from the controller and some other gubbins (tech term!) than they would be for either of the other models, and I guess that increased distance leads to a potential drop in raw oomph.

http://www.storagereview.com/sandisk_extreme_ssd_review

It fairs impressively well with the 4k reads and the 480's higher max read IOPS may even make that better still, but otherwise the 240GB one as seemingly reviewed everywhere is a highly commendable unit.

 

[GoogalyMoogaly]

So these use the same Sandforce controllers as in the Vertex 3?
Does this also mean their write speeds are based on highly compressible data?

 

[topdog@OC]

Yes, though they're not too shabby at incompressible data handling either.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Hello

Check out the NEW PRICE on 480GB!!!





Sandisk Extreme SSD 480GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive - (SDSSDX-480G-G25) @ £469.99 inc VAT

Upgrade your laptop for better performance and extend its reliability by replacing your hard disk drive with the SanDisk Extreme® SSD. You’ll enjoy faster boot-ups and open files compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive§. The SanDisk Extreme SSD is backed by rigorous shock and vibration testing and a 3-year limited warranty†. The SanDisk SSD features no moving parts, quiet operation, and low power consumption as compared to a 7200 RPM hard drive.

- Capacity: 480GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-2281
- Maximum Read: 540MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 460MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 46,000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- 2.5" to 3.5" SSD adaptor included
- Warranty: 3 Years


Was £599.99 Inc. VAT

Only £469.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW



Any Back orders will have the difference refunded to card

 

[pingwing]

Oh my!