Sandisk is best known for its range of SD cards and USB flash drives, but the company also has a history of making solid-state drives (SSDs). However, the Sandisk Extreme Pro's specifications look very similar to its predecessor, the Extreme II .

SanDisk has such supreme confidence in its products that it's offering a 10-year warranty on its latest solid state drive, the Extreme Pro SSD. It's the first time such a long warranty has been offered on a consumer drive, and it's sure to be one of the main features that will entice many people to...

10-year warranty; Good overall performance; Improved random data performance

Not quite as fast as some other drives we've tested when used as a system drive

The SanDisk Extreme Pro is an update to last year's well-received Extreme II SSD . Priced at about ￡250 (around $390, AU$455) online, the Extreme Pro bears a few similarities, employing the same Marvell controller but with optimisations to the firmware for additional performance.

I decided to clone my current SSD onto a 480GB SanDisk SDSSDXPS-480G-G25 Extreme PRO SATA III 2.5" SSD after reading the Hexus review u2013 worth a read for those who havenu2019t looked at it.

Huge capacity, huge performance, huge stability, huge 10-year warranty. You do have to pay premium for this luxury, though

Extremely happy with this purchase which have significantly sped up my Sony VAIO laptop which had a 7200 rpm hard disk that I replaced with the SanDisk SSD

Who doesn't want a fast SSD? I asked and answered this last time with the

Incredibly consistent and fast speeds; nCache technology; 10-year warranty; 10-year warranty!

Slightly slower in synthetic tests; Slightly higher cost than "value" SSDs

Recently launched, the SanDisk Extreme Pro SSD range sits at the high end of the market. Today we take a look at the 480GB version and compare it to the best the competition has to offer.

With high performance, best in class consistency and a killer 10 year warranty, SanDisk's Extreme PRO series should be at the top of your SSD shopping list.

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.