Sandisk Extreme II 240GB Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

As we can see from the IOPS, the Extreme II has similarly high levels of performance on both the read and write side of the table with results just pushing 80k IOPS.

As we can see, unlike SandForce based drives which do suffer from a bit of performance loss with incompressible data, the Marvell controller is able to give as good as it gets – no matter what the compression level.