Note how all the NAND modules are branded with SanDisk. Here’s a closer look of one of the NAND chips. Here we can see the SandForce SF-2281 controller in all its glory. The back side of the PCB houses the other 4 NAND modules. On one side of the PCB we can see 4 modules of 32GB NAND chips along with the SandForce SF-2281 chip to the left. Here we did some warranty voiding action to show you what’s inside. The front side sticker blends with the black color scheme very well. The enclosure is completely metal, which shows SanDisk’s dedication to quality. Don’t remove the sticker, otherwise your “WARRANTY VOID IF REMOVED”. The back of the SSD with some information about the SSD.

Here in its usual spot, we see the SATA 3 6Gb/s interface along with a SATA power connector. The box, the manual, and the SSD itself is pretty much it. A Closer Look at the SanDisk ExtremeĪs with most SSDs on the market, there isn’t much that comes included with the SSD.

Power: 0.5W Active, 1.9W Max Operating.

I/OPS: 33K random read IOPS, 83K random write IOPS.

Read/Write: 550 MB/s read, 520 MB/s write,.

We rarely get to review a solid state drive with toggle NAND, so let’s see how well it performs. But more bandwidth is useless if the drive can’t perform, so SanDisk added the speedy SF-2281 controller and top quality 24nm SanDisk Toggle Mode MLC NAND flash memory manufactured from their own foundry. The first major difference is that it uses SATA 6Gb/s interface instead of the narrower SATA 3Gb/s. Offering sizes of 120GB, 240GB and 480GB, this new enthusiast/server line includes some vast improvements over its slower cousin. Now SanDisk is back with a vengeance with the “Extreme” line of SSDs. The two combined factors doomed the Ultra line. That’s because back when it was first released the drives suffered from extremely slow sequential copy speeds, even trailing some mechanical drives at times, and their high cost per GB ratio made consumers turn their heads away at the sight of them. Remember when SanDisk tried to squeeze itself into the SSD market with the SanDisk Ultra SATA 2 SSDs back in 2011? Yeah, neither do I.

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