SanDisk 240GB Extreme Pro Solid State Drive

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The SanDisk Extreme PRO family of SSDs delivers consistent best-in-class real-world performance with the ability to easily handle virtually any resource-intensive application paired with an aggressive price point and industry leading warranty.

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  Top-in-class performance, SanDisk pedigree of reliability, Industry leading 10-year warranty

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  Crucial/Micron M550, Crucial M500, Crucial MX100, OCZ Vertex 460, Corsair Force LS, Corsair Force LX 256GB, Samsung SSD 840 EVO, SanDisk Extreme II, Top-in-class performance, SanDisk pedigree of reliability, Industry leading 10-year warranty, Struggles some with large block random activity

The Extreme PRO only goes down to 240GB, but it tops our chart as the fastest consumer SSD you can buy today. Check out Chris' full review of this new SSD.

Looking at overall capacity for the 240GB, 480GB and 960GB SanDisk Extreme PRO drives (1GB byte = 1,000,000,000 bytes) the capacity accessible to the end user as reported by Windows comes out to be 223GiB, 447GiB and 894Gib (1Gib = 1,073,741,824 bytes) respectively.

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The 960GB model demands a premium price, but the 480GB Extreme PRO SSD delivers the same performance at a lower price. Follow on for our full review.

The Extreme Pro offers great performance and endurance, with a long 10-year warranty to back it up. It's reasonably affordable too.

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  Fast sequential read and write speeds, Long 10-year warranty, Good endurance

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  No power-loss protection or encryption, Slightly lower IOPS than class-leading drives, High-capacity SSDs remain a pricey prospect

Extreme Pro SSD: The Extreme Pro is a fast SSD, but its small file performance could be better

The Sandisk range of SSDs were one of the first we reviewed that provided a big leap in the capacity/price sector that was holding SSDs back from becoming a part of everyone's rig.

Intel Core i7-6700K CPU Asus Maximus 8 Gene Motherboard G. Skill TridentZ 64GB RAM Corsair H110i GTX Liquid Cooler Samsung 950 Pro 512GB M.2 SSD Main OS Sandisk Extreme Pro 960GB SSD Storage Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti Amp!

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  I'm using this drive as a secondary drive. I haven't ran into any issues so far and the speeds are great.

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This is the third Sandisk SSD I have bought and with 2 intel SSD drives to compare too and for the price I will take the Sandisk.

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  Better than the intels I replaced as of speed and price.

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The Windows Experience Index bumped the Sandisk up from 7.6 to 7.7 after I removed a 250 gig Mushkin SSD, which I put into a six year old

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  Fast. 10 year warranty. Good price.

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I would definately buy another one when I get the extra money to do so. Sandisk's a great company along with the Others out there as well.

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  The Pro's of getting this SSD is, its the better bang for your buck if you're on a budget. Looking at Tom's hardware information about the difference SSDs out there. This ranked second below Samsung as it has a slightly slower read and write speed, but ranked higher in terms of pricing.

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  Con's would be is that its a shame that most HDDs, or SSDS, or any time of storage device doesn't give you the full ammount regardless. I had only 894 gigs out of 960.

I bought 3 of these and have had no issues with them. Drive is fast and reliable

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  Fast Large amount of storage

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