SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD (240GB, 480GB & 960GB) Review: The Fastest Just Got Faster
by Kristian Vättö on June 16, 2014 4:00 PM EST- Posted in
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- SanDisk
- Extreme Pro
AnandTech Storage Bench 2011
Back in 2011 (which seems like so long ago now!), we introduced our AnandTech Storage Bench, a suite of benchmarks that took traces of real OS/application usage and played them back in a repeatable manner. The MOASB, officially called AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Heavy Workload, mainly focuses on peak IO performance and basic garbage collection routines. There is a lot of downloading and application installing that happens during the course of this test. Our thinking was that it's during application installs, file copies, downloading and multitasking with all of this that you can really notice performance differences between drives. The full description of the Heavy test can be found here, while the Light workload details are here.
The Extreme Pro does well in our older Storage Benches as well, although as you can see we have gotten to a point where the difference between SATA drives is less than 10% in most cases.
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ninjag - Thursday, June 19, 2014 - link
Where can I find these 10000% washing machines? I have been tracking this market for years, and I am so tired of incremental 5% gains on washing machine silicon. WE WANT INNOVATION!!!brucek2 - Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - link
Its discussions like this that make it hard for me to get a feel for whether it would matter to me or not.On the one hand, 162% sounds plenty substantial. I do not want to spend 162% more immersion-breaking time twiddling my thumbs waiting for the next level to load, let alone 162% more time to get through a compile so I can meet my next deadline.
On the other hand, waiting 1/1,000th of a second does not actually sound any faster to me than waiting 1/4,000th of a second (these are the "average service times" in the benchmark), because I know my personal threshold for perceiving laggy response kicks in at around 0.1 seconds.
So where does this leave me? Not sure really but in the case of doubt it probably goes to spend more. The extra $100-$200 of potential hardware savings would be eaten up quickly in my time to research it much further, to end up ordering & installing & migrating to another drive sooner than I otherwise would have, or if I really did end up twiddling my thumbs more.
But never fear MyrddinE, I'm still not buying the 99.8% pure unicorn dust super connect audio cables.
mickulty - Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - link
There are plenty of use cases where every little helps - a 5% overclock, assuming linear scaling, would shave ~8.5 minutes off a 3 hour video transcoding task for example.UltraTech79 - Sunday, June 29, 2014 - link
See but actual users do not do "blind tests" they do actual tests for their servers to see what is better. You dont need to feel the difference between 5 and 10 to know what number is higher.n13L5 - Thursday, December 3, 2015 - link
In many cases, you are correct. But if you were just teetering near sufficient performance, a 5% performance increase to stay solidly just above 30 fps, the difference will suddenly become very obvious to perceive.UltraTech79 - Sunday, June 29, 2014 - link
Yes. No one would notice......Except the sort of people that would read these kinds of articles. Your logic is a failure.
vaayu64 - Monday, June 16, 2014 - link
Thanks for a nice review. Do you know if Sandisk is going to release an mSata version of this ?Sadly, there isn't a good msata ssd > 240 GB capacity and with good performance consistency in the market right now....
Regards
457R4LDR34DKN07 - Monday, June 16, 2014 - link
I know what you mean because when I built my mITX I think the only drive I could find was the ocz nocti 128GB. If I was going to upgrade it I would go with a Samsung 840 evo but mSATA isn't worth investing into at this point with M.2 arrival IMO.vaayu64 - Monday, June 16, 2014 - link
The 840 evo msata is without doubt a very nice ssd, but TRIM is not supported on that one.ijozic - Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - link
Where did you get that (mis)information from?