SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB SSD 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.

Normally SSDs do suffer a little with incompressible data, but the Ultra Plus keeps up particularly well at this stage with speeds only a little down on those rated. Looking a little closer at the 4K and 32K read performance, it is clear that the nCache even during testing has a profound effect.

Even with compressible data SanDisk’s drive is able to maintain high levels of performance across the board with individual results up a little then before as one would expect.