We have been testing an SSD for a few days that Sandisk has given us for testing, specifically it is the model Sandisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD. To carry out the tests and this small review of the product we have used an external box connected to our Mac, the pure plop by stockplop that we analyzed a few days ago. This external case has USB 3.0 support and we have connected it to the standard USB port of the Mac. With all this we have installed some applications and we have carried out tests with the veteran application Blackmagic Disk.
The speeds offered by this solid disk are really spectacular for most of the tasks that we carry out in our day to day or even if we want to use it to install the operating system, our applications or even for those players who make intensive use of the computer hardware. team, developers and multimedia professionals. This SanDisk SSD drive has the nCache Pro technology delivers sustainable performance with blazing fast read and write speedsIt also lengthens the useful life of the disc.
The speeds indicated by the manufacturer for this SSD they are 550 MB / s for reading and 50 MB / s for writing, Despite the fact that in the tests we have carried out we have not reached these speeds, we all know that there are several factors such as the USB connection that reduce these values somewhat, but that does not mean we have complaints about the speed of the disk.
These are the results obtained with the Blackmagic Disk application, but we can say that transferring about 4GB of data (in this case photos and videos) to the SSD from my camera took about 2 minutes, twice as fast than in the case of transferring files to a mechanical hard drive:
The external construction of the disk is based on aluminum and this allows the SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD to better resist possible shocks and vibrations while protecting our data. What's more has bad block management, which avoid possible memory failures and has a thermal regulator, than the possible rises of temperature when it has an intensive use.
For all those who want to buy one of these SSD models, they can do so from the most popular online pages or they can even be found in several of the large electronic product sales areas. The price for this 240GB storage model is right now of one 127 euros on some popular web pages.
Normal that the figures are not high, you are using a box that is powered by the USB not separated, that makes the hard disk lose power ... With which your test is useless ... If you did it with a box with Thunderbolt connectivity it would be more real the result even higher than if we connected it by Sata 3