Very fast, faster booting times and opening programs.

From full off,..... 8 second Boot time - What's NOT to like!

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.

Without a doubt, the Extreme II was one of the best SSDs we ever tested, and I wasn't sure if any company would be able to best its performance with a SATA based product. Little did I know it would be SanDisk looking to raise the bar again, this time with exceptional engineering rather than brute...

SanDisk have just released their latest SSD, the new Extreme PRO SSD that targets gamers and PC enthusiasts who want the best performance from their hard drives. SanDisk boasts speeds of up to 550MB/s (sequential) and 520MB/s (write) that is ideal for not just gaming but also heavy duty multimedia.

Fairly recently I had the opportunity to take a look at a SanDisk Ultra II 240GB SSD and it certainly didn't disappoint. This time we have an SSD from the fastest range SanDisk have to offer, the SanDisk Extreme PRO 480GB, but is it as Extreme as its namesake?

Fast speed

speed

pricey

SanDisk's top consumer SSD is backed by a confident 10-year guarantee, and its clear high performance a great value at around 36 pence per gigabyte make this one of the top SSDs you can find today, even a year after its launch.

While Samsung's SSD 850 Pro turned in superb results when we reviewed it in late June, we couldn't quite crown it the performance king without having benched SanDisk's new flagship.

The Extreme Pro is among the fastest SATA SSDs you can buy today; it's reasonably priced and it ships with a 10-year warranty

It's outdone by the performance of Samsung's 850 Pro and we would've liked to have seen hardware encryption included

Kitguru says: One of the highest performance Solid State Drives that money can buy, backed up with a 10 year warranty.

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

It isn't cheap by today's market pricing