Ultimate Thoughts

The Extreme II delivered similar operation to the Apex 450 throughout our benchmarks. Customised file transference tests definitely favored the former by a tad, but the margins were ribbonlike enough that it's hard to name a clear winner and although the Utmost II showed troubling haphazard 512k and 4K-QD32 results in CrystalDiskMark, IT had no trouble duplicate the Vertex 450 in our real-world application tests.

Moreover, the Uttermost II held its own when lengthways PCMark 7 and this was again the casing when testing with the recently released PCMark 8, which leads us to close that SanDisk's in vogue oblation is connected an even playing field with the Peak 450 when IT comes to performance. Naturally, such is also the case with pricing, arsenic both drives are currently fetching about $230 at online retailers.

While you get a little more storage with the Apex 450, we believe reliability is the biggest considerateness and OCZ's criminal record here is mixed. Though they made a lot of noise about the vigorous testing procedures the Vector drives went through and the Vertex 450 is based on a similar project. Our samples are functional fountainhead, but there's a quite a little of talk on PC forums some in flood failure rates with the latest OCZ drives.

The Extreme II's reliability is obviously yet to be determined, just Marvell-supported SSDs induce an excellent history therein respect and acknowledged the same control is also inside Crucial's M500, we are confident SanDisk's drive will go the aloofness. Assuming that's the case, with its modern pricing and performance we have no problem recommending the Extreme II for anyone looking to bribe a high speed SSD.

Pros: Solid performance showing across the board. In-house industrial firmware, good controller option.

Cons: Svelte pricing adaptation makes SanDisk's high-end drive out very competitive, only non entirely differentiates it from tough rivals, namely Samsung.