Sandisk Extreme II SSD Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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truthfully I don't much like doing SSD unboxings anymore they're pretty much
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the same as far as the thing that's inside the box and what it looks like
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but I've had at least a few people asking me about SanDisk ssds for quite
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some time and I was mildly curious about
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whether a non sandforce based SSD would work in the Blackmagic cinema camera
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that we're planning to purchase in spite of there not being any non- sandforce
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based ssds on the validated list so first let's start with SanDisk ssds in
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general they're not exactly um you know an Enthusiast type brand from a from a
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Gamers a typical Gamers perspective you might look at SanDisk and go okay well
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that's stuff that like you know camera people use whereas you know I'm going
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for like ocz or whatever else but for professional users speaking of what
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camera people might use they are definitely an Enthusiast grade brand so
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their SD cards and compact flash cards traditionally have been among the
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fastest in fact they have the fastest SD card available in terms of sustained
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right speeds at the moment with black magic specifically recommending their
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extreme Pro Series for raw recording on the Blackmagic pocket camera so there
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you go they own Fabs which gives them the luxury of being being able to
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handpick the absolute best flash for themselves this equates to both an
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endurance and a performance advantage and aside from using their own flash on
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here which is an advantage they're using a Marva very fast Marvel controller and
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their own custom firmware to achieve performance that is at or near the top
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of pretty much every performance Benchmark you can possibly find inside
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the box I guess I should have mention that there's an ESD bag there's the SSD
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itself it's a 7 mm SSD and it comes with a spacer so you can space it out to 9 mm
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if your particular notebook supports that form factor as opposed to the
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Slimmer one and I guess that's all there
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is to really say about it of course you'll pay a premium for this and any
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Extreme Performance I mean it says extreme like right on the box this and
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any Extreme Performance SSD but whether or not it's worth the extra cost to you
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these days particularly if you're coming from a hard drive which is so much
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slower than even the slowest SSD is
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probably open for debate if you are a professional user and you do need very
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good longevity it comes with a 5year warranty and you need extreme Supreme
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performance and all that stuff then I guess it's not really that debatable
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you're probably going to want to go for something like this at any rate it's available in 120 gig 240 gig and 40 gig
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configurations as usual this is something I should probably mention just
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because nobody seems to know this you can find the pricing of pretty much
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anything I unbox by checking out the pricing and availability Link in the
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