Good news for gamers who don't leave the house: SanDisk debuts 24/7 Extreme PRO SSD

Gamers are told to take note: SanDisk has souped its Extreme line of SATA interface consumer SSDs to the Extreme PRO – which has doubled capacity, slightly increased speed and an eye-catching 10-year warranty. Last year's Extreme II featured a maximum of 480GB of capacity, random read/write speeds of 95,000/75,000 IOPS (4K), …

[Anonymous Coward]

Sequential read/write bandwidth of 550/520 MB/sec?

That's pretty standard and nothing special then.

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right. They should add racing stripes.

[Boothy]

@ AC OP

Yup, my 18+ month old SSD already runs at that speed, and it wasn't a new model then, so no progress in the last 2 years then!?

[Epobirs]

Re: @ AC OP

The SATA-III interface is the bottleneck. The real action in SSD advancement is in more direct connections to the PCI-e bus. Anything that sits on SATA cannot compete on sequential throughput when that has already been maximized.

[shifty_powers]

Re: @ AC OP

"Yup, my 18+ month old SSD already runs at that speed, and it wasn't a new model then, so no progress in the last 2 years then!?"

Which shows that you have somewhat missed the point :P

The IOPS will have just as large an impact on performance for mot people as trhe headline mb/s speed.

I'd rather have a slightly lower mb/s speed and a much higher IOPS....

[Anonymous Coward]

Bugger the gamers…

10 years warranty did they say? I think I can see a bulk purchase of them for an OpenNebula cluster at my workplace.

[nate1981]

10 years on any HDD does not make sense. 10 years is a long time. Drives could be 100+ TB and much faster by then.

[Gene Cash]

Who cares though? Current drives are fast enough for me, and the Seagate drive on this PC has a mfgr date of 27-AUG-2009, so that's almost 5 years old right there.

[James O'Brien]

Only 5 years?

I have a set of 4 old 150Gb Raptors which I bought back in '07 which are still going strong. You get a well enough made product it will last a lot longer than similar product but cheaply made. Gotta love WD for their drives though I am in the process of switching out to the new(ish) 500Gb 840 EVO.

[Trevor_Pott]

Re: Only 5 years?

Ah, the 150GB Raptors. Grand drives. I still have some in use, and rather a lot of 74GB units. But the 300GB Raptors were made of fail and AIDS. May whomever handled WD through the TLER fiasco be consumed by 10,000 ants.

[John Stoffel]

I agree, the longer warrantee now makes it much more likely that I would buy one of these for my home systems, as well as work systems. But it does come down to the number of writes in the specs, which I haven't touched yet.

Don't you all look at warrantee length when you buy spinning rust too? The extra money is well worth it when/if a drive dies 4 years down the road. You might argue that it will be obsolutete by then, but it probably will still be useful no matter what.

John

[Annihilator]

"the drive can be used 24/7"

Sorry, normal drives can't?

[John Tserkezis]

"the drive can be used 24/7" "Sorry, normal drives can't?"

They can, just don't expect them to last nearly as long.