This opens up the competition and means that, going forward, the price of SSDs will be likely to go down even further. The new drive is also SanDisk's first step in the TLC SSD market, which has been dominated by Samsung. It's the first on the market that a cost as low as just 40 cents per gigabyte.
Pricing has always been one the most important factors in buying an SSD, and SanDisk delivers in this regard with the Ultra II.
However, considering its low cost, the drive will still make a great upgrade for an older computer that supports SATA 2 (3Gbps). Note that you need to use the Ultra II in a computer that supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) to get the best performance out of it. Overall, it was below average when compared to recently reviewed drives, but most of these are high-end drives, however. When used as a main drive and performing both writing and reading at the same time, it, however, scored just 127MBps. I tested the drive both as a secondary drive in a computer as well as the main drive that hosted the operating system.Īs a secondary drive, it registered a sustained real-world data transferring speed of 310MBps for writing and 310MBps for reading. A lower number indicates better value.Ĭonsidering its low cost, the Ultra II's performance was quite impressive.