SanDisk's Ultra II 480GB SSD provides high flash capacity at a low price point. The user experience is a bit better on this drive when compared to other low-cost models. The software package puts this one over the top, and hence makes it a top pick in this price range.

Samsung set the bar for TLC SSDs extremely high with the SSD 840 and further raised it with the SSD 840 EVO. Since Samsung set the base level of what to expect from TLC, now every TLC drive will be put directly against Samsung's offerings, and what Samsung taught us is that a TLC SSD does not have...

Samsung now has some competition in the TLC SSD market and things are not going to slow down. Next year there will be a flood of newer TLC drives being released into the marketplace.

Given the 3-year warranty, decent software bundle and aggressive pricing the Sandisk Ultra 2 SSD wins our value award.

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  Three Years Warranty, Storage options between 120GB to 960GB, Good performance with light workloads and Gaming

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  Better options out there for heavy workloads

Here we have our first product from SanDisk at pcGameware and it puts up a sterling performance all areas. The Ultra II offers a nice and simple design that is predominantly black with a rather dominant red SanDisk logo.

With the lowest pricing on the market, the SanDisk Ultra II is an excellent upgrade for your aging computer.

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  The SanDisk Ultra II SSD delivers good performance, and its high-capacity versions are currently the most affordable on the market. The drive includes helpful software.

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  The drive's 120GB version is comparatively expensive. The three-year warranty is not as long as might be expected.

The SanDisk Ultra II 240GB's low cost, Dashboard software, and quality make it an excellent choice for surfing the web, casual gaming and general computing activities. At this point, the HDD is dead for consumer boot drives, this is your reliable entry level flash option.

I use this drive in a Dual boot Windows-10 / Linux machine using 3-5 VM/VBox Vitual Machines. I am changing and rebuilding the partitions + VM's on a regular basis. Its been through Several major OS changes and upgrades, with no problems to report.

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  Works great for me.

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  None for me.

I bought this to replace a dead hard drive in my iMac. It was easy to install and it works great. It’s very fast and of course silent. So far so good.

Easy to install it works perfectly with all older devices and new. I have been using it for weeks and there are no issues. Huge performance improvement this is a must-have upgrade if you have new or older equipment excellent product.

This is my first SSD after my 500GB WD Green drive died. I wasn't expecting much to be fair, especially when it arrived. To be fair I'm not sure what I was expecting, but it's just a small very lightweight plastic box. Hard to believe what it can do!!!

Bought this to give my laptop some spring in its step, and its working out awesomely. I used to have to wait five to ten minutes after a complete shutdown for the old hybrid SSHD to get back up to speed, and now its popping on like smart phone.

I install this to my Acer Predator Helios 300. It works great so far. just to remind, I noticed the price of this product changed a lot. I bought it in Aug. for $189.99. So, watch for the price!

I'm a software developer and expected this SSD drive to last more than two years. Purchased on October 13, 2016 and died today 9/9/2018. Lost everything except for source code saved in repository. No warning..

I have had a good time using my ssd as my main boot device for my computer but now just a few days ago i was installing windows on it and when it rebooted, the ssd was no-longer detected and no-longer works and i rememeber before reinstalling windows the health was at 96%.

There is no battery life so left 1 star for that metric; otherwise, item was perfect still solid a year later ..

Everything as expected