SanDisk Extreme II SSD Review: Striking At The Heavy-Hitters

[eklipz330]

why didn't you guys compare it to the original drives?

 

[danwat1234]

Because some of us have the original drives and want to know if its worth it to upgrade.

 

[JPNpower]

I said above that some drives here shouldn't like the M4. But more competition the better.

 

[JPNpower]

Dear toms, are you ever going to review the M5 pro Xtreme by Plextor?
I'm dying for a proper review.

 

[Sanjayyadav1994]

Mera sandisk ki memory cdard hai aur wo lock ho gaya hai use unlock kaise kare

 

[gligoran]

A good review here, but I was wondering why there's no Samsung 840 Pro SSDs in the mix? As far as I've read it's SanDisk Exreme's biggest competitor. Samsung 830 is also almost 2 years old.

 

[flong777]

Why is the 840 Pro the fastest SSD on the planet? It has its share of drawbacks, and is slower than the OCZ Vector, and the Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme on many benchmarks. Don't make broad statemets that aren't always true.

Overall, it is the fastest SSD right now, though I have not read the tests lately. No SSD wins every category, but the Pro generally beats everything else.

 

[JPNpower]

Why is the 840 Pro the fastest SSD on the planet? It has its share of drawbacks, and is slower than the OCZ Vector, and the Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme on many benchmarks. Don't make broad statemets that aren't always true.

Overall, it is the fastest SSD right now, though I have not read the tests lately. No SSD wins every category, but the Pro generally beats everything else.

I know, but that wasn't my point. Your opinion is what people need, but instead the masses of enthusiasts just blindly say that the Sammy is the undisputed fastest, end of story, goodbye. But the truth is different. I read some customer review of the Sammy somewhere where the guy said how his 840 pro was slower than his bud's Vector, so gave it a one star review. Stupid.

 

[steave_01]

Had you used Intel SSDs, you would have agreed that OEM manufacturers surely have some role to play on the controllers they are embedded with. I am sure many would openly support me in the fact that Sandforce based Intel SSDs are very unique from the rest of the OEMs that sandforce is currently associated with. I believe, the firmware that a SSD receives needs to be specific to each OEM & one can understand how complex firmware patch creation job can be

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Really? I was under the impression that OEMs aren't allowed to change much of the firmware, and that the main unique part of Intel's SSDs is the logo and the fast/reliable in-house NAND.

Certainly can't be more complex than Samsung and other manufacturers who fab their own silicon. Every part of an 840 Pro is made in-house.

 

[JPNpower]

Really? I was under the impression that OEMs aren't allowed to change much of the firmware, and that the main unique part of Intel's SSDs is the logo and the fast/reliable in-house NAND.

Certainly can't be more complex than Samsung and other manufacturers who fab their own silicon. Every part of an 840 Pro is made in-house.

The differences between Intel and say the equivalent Sandforce OCZ or something is very large in terms of performance and reliability.

Also I thought Intel did make their own silicon, just not their controller.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

They made the NAND, which is all standard anyway. You could drop any other similar NAND into it and it would still work.

The controller is what changes everything. Intel probably just tested their firmware mods more.

 

[JPNpower]

I assume that your opinion is that the controller and software is what controls performance, and that NAND tech only affects power efficiency and overall capacity.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Not entirely - there are different classes of NAND out there e.g. ONFi vs Toggle-mode, asynchronous vs synchronous, which does affect performance. But if you replace Intel ONFi with Hynix ONFi, you won't see a difference. Write endurance may be different though.

 

[JPNpower]

Why do people keep on spamming this particular article?

 

[gsteele531]

I understand the kvetching about not including the Samsung pro drive in that it makes the review a touch incomplete. But in a sense, the existence of the review provokes that response, which itself fills in the missing reference, if not the information (of course, the links supplied do provide the missing information). So the article doesn't stand alone, nor does it have to, but rather is augmented significantly by the comments of the readers, so that the whole story emerges and becomes more balanced, becoming a community article in the process. In a sense, the commenters play the Fox News role to the mainstream article . . . (;-D