SanDisk Extreme PRO 480GB SSD Review

Bapco MobileMark

Version and / or Patch Used: 2012 1.5

Note: In this test, we use the Lenovo W530 Mobile Workstation and a SuperSpeed S301 SLC 128GB SSD to move a 15GB block of data to and from the target drive. This is part of our real-world test regiment. Roughly 45GB of data resides on the target drive before the '15GB Block' is transferred. The 15GB Block is the same data we built for the Data on Disk Testing and is a mix of compressible and incompressible data.

Our notebook in the Notebook Battery Life test uses an Ivy Bridge processor, so it doesn't take advantage of DEVSLP. Haswell based notebooks can deliver longer battery life with DEVSLP enabled because the SSD sips power at a very low rate when idle.

In our test, the Extreme PRO 480GB delivers a strong result at 277 minutes. This is in the upper tier for our test as configured.