This is the lowest price the 250GB version has been since they were introduced last year. These are almost identical to the WD Blue 3D drives. The 1TB version was Tom’s Hardware’s Editor’s Choice for SATA drives last year.
Uses Toshiba’s new high performance BiCS 3D TLC, and is often compared favorably to Samsung’s 850 Evos.
Specifications:
- 100TBW endurance
- 550/525 MBps sequential read/write speeds
- 95k/81k random read/write IOPS
- 3 year warranty
Anadtech review of the 1TB version (the only version I’ve seen reviewed significantly).
From the review’s conclusion
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Compared to the competing drives on the market today, the new WD Blue 3D NAND and SanDisk Ultra 3D have the performance that is expected of a mainstream SATA SSD. On most real-world workloads, there’s no noticeable performance difference between the Ultra 3D and the Samsung 850 EVO. The Ultra 3D also handles being full better than most TLC drives, and does not show the spike in latency that several drives like the Crucial MX300 exhibit. Overall, it is clear that SanDisk is still very good at managing TLC flash and implementing SLC caching in a way that has almost no downsides. |