Sandisk's Ultra II SSD

cliodude1 · September 11, 2014

So I've been looking for an affordable yet speedy SSD, and I have come across this rather newly released SSD, the Sandisk Ultra II SSD: http://www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/ultra-ii/

Any thoughts on it? It's cheaper than anything similar in storage (Crucial, Samsung, Kingston, the likes), and it seems fast and some nice extras.

Bearukun · September 11, 2014

I've got two 240GB Extreme II disks in RAID 0 in my rig and and I haven't had any problems with them. So I assume that the Ultra 2s will be just fine as well. If they are the cheapest that you can get a hold on, and you don't want bleeding edge read/write-speeds I think you should go for them.

BroFister420 · September 12, 2014

Honestly, it's really difficult to tell the difference between mainstream and enthusiast SSDs for average users. I used to use an Intel 530 SSD, switched to a cheapo Sandisk Ultra Plus, nearly half the price for the same size. Didn't notice much a difference. Maybe Windows loaded a second faster? But that's all within margin of error, were I to benchmark it.