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by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)That's pretty competitive in a market space where margins are shrinking faster than the supply of semi-automatic rifles.
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)To wrap up, the Ultra Plus is a nice choice offered by SanDisk with performance that is commensurate with the pricing.
SSDBoss Review Our evaluation of the SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD
read performance | |
How quickly data is read from the drive | |
4K Random Read, 4K Random Read Access Time and 512K Sequential Read |
write performance | |
How quickly data is written to the drive | |
4K Random Write, 4K Random Write Access Time and 512K Sequential Write |
real world benchmarks | |
How well the drive performs common tasks | |
Windows 7 Boot-up Time, Photoshop Lens Filter and AS SSD ISO Copy |
Benchmarks | |
How well the drive performs on common benchmarks | |
PCMark Vantage, AS SSD Score and Tom's Hardware Storage Bench |
6.6 | SSDBoss Score |
read performance, write performance, real world benchmarks and Benchmarks | |
Benchmarks Real world tests of the SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD
4K Random Write
Windows 7 Boot-up Time
Avg. Power Consumption
4K Random Read Access Time
4K Random Write Access Time
Reviews Word on the street for the SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD
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What People Are Saying Give it to me straight
Performance
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)Benchmark Results: IOPS are a good bit below the SanDisk specification of 82k on reads and a little above the 39k specification on writes but overall decent performance.
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)IOPS really doesn't vary as dramatically with reads ranging from 79k to 82k and writes from 29k to 39k.
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)It does a nice job of moving data quickly without the need for compression to boost performance; however, it does rely on a cache to buffer data as needed which sets it apart from the SandForce drives.
Speed
by Tech Radar (Mar, 2013)Then, when the drive is idle, the garbage collection routines fire those files into the slower MLC portion of the drive.
by Tech Radar (Mar, 2013)The Ultra Plus, however, impresses in the 4K random read/write results and posts the fastest read speeds we've seen and is pushing on for 60MB/s on the writes.
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)Install Results: The only drive in our comparison slower than the SanDisk Ultra Plus on the 5GB file copy was the budget friendly Kingston V300 drive.
Price
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)Nor does it carry the same price tag.
by Tech Radar (Mar, 2013)That's important because the Samsung 840 250GB drive is retailing for the same price as this SanDisk, and with 6GB less space.
by Tech Radar (Mar, 2013)Being able to use it's own memory chips means that SanDisk can price its new drives aggressively and this 256GB Ultra Plus is sitting at the 51p per GB mark.
Interface
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)This is the first time we've seen the Marvell 88SS9175 SATA 6Gb/s capable controller and so far it seems very similar to the 9174 chip.
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)For the SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB drive, the readout on CrystalDiskInfo 5.2.0 shows that both NCQ and S.M.A.R.T. are enabled, as well as TRIM and the interface is confirmed at SATA III (6Gbps).
Capacity
by Legit Reviews (Jan, 2013)However, we can see enough to tell this is a Samsung DDR2 DRAM chip at 128MB capacity.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
storage
Capacity | 256 GB |
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Cache | 128 MB |
Interface | SATA III |
Interface speed | 6 Gbit/s |
Controller | Marvell SS889175 |
Memory type | MLC |
NAND process size | 19 nm |
Maximum shock force | 1,500G |
form factor
Form factor | 2.5" |
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Mfg warranty | 3 years |
Thickness | 7 mm |
Weight | 36 g |
manufacturer performance
Sequential read | 530 MB/s |
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Sequential write | 445 MB/s |
Random read | 82,000 IOPS |
Random write | 39,000 IOPS |
Power consumption (Active) | 0.12 Watts |
MTBF | 2,000,000 hours |

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