Performance Summary : SanDisk’s Extreme Pro series of solid state drives performed very well throughout our entire battery of tests. They faltered a bit in our IOMeter tests, but consistently offered some of the best read performance we have seen to date, with excellent access times, and competitive...

Strong Performance; Excellent Warranty

Somewhat Pricier Than Some Competing Drives

This flash drive is small, portable, fast and easy to install. The drive plugged into my USB 3.0 and immediately began to download and install drivers and software for it to operate. It only took about a minute and I was ready to use it.

Great price! Looks original! New!

As usual, tested new flash drive with H2TestW:

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The Sandisk Extreme Pro 480GB has certainly not disappointed. Sequential performance is excellent and, like many of the latest drives is pushing the SATA 3 interface to the absolute limit.

10 year warranty; IOPS is strong; sequential performance; incompressible and compressible data

It isn’t cheap by today’s market pricing.

Not all solid-state drives are created equal. SSDs using cheaper NAND memory and controllers - value drives - focus on sequential speed as the headline-grabbing figures. Premium consumer drives exhibit similar out-of-the-box figures but, crucially, offer up much better long-term performance and...

We were also lucky enough to get our hands on a second drive which we combined in RAID 0. We are happy to report that performance scaled well and the dual drive config provided exceptional results.

When you first look at the Extreme PRO series you will raise an eyebrow and will start to wonder that exactly has been changed over the Extreme II series from SanDisk. Well, when we purely talk about peak performance, sure nothing much.

If you need speed out of your USB, this is a great option. however, there are cheaper options out there that can do the same stuff

-its fast; -its rather sturdy

-its bulky; -price per gb is very high

There's a lot of USB 3.0 sticks but many don't have performance worth talking about. This and the high end Lexars do. The Sandisk is good value (these days) and a reliable brand. Be careful of clones on eBay. The only reason it's not 5/5 is the form factor.