SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB review

Written by Matthew Lambert

January 28, 2013 | 09:24

Tags: #dram #nand #ssd

Companies: #marvell #samsung #sandisk

PCMark 7

Website: PCMark 7

PCMark 7's storage benchmark uses SATA traces to emulate specific workloads and apply them to each SSD on test. We've selected the Gaming and Application load tests to highlight here. As some PCMark tests generate the same result regardless of SSD, we feel these speeds are more relevant than PCMark's overall score.

PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test

Starting Applications test

  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 512GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
    • 66.93
    • 59.90
    • 58.11
    • 56.17
    • 53.63
    • 51.46
    • 50.65
    • 50.13
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  • Speed (MB/sec)

PCMark 7 Secondary Storage Test

Gaming Test

  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 512GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
    • 17.53
    • 17.11
    • 16.92
    • 16.72
    • 16.57
    • 16.45
    • 15.82
    • 15.55
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  • Speed (MB/sec)

BootRacer

Website: BootRacer

We've wanted to include more real-world tests for our SSD reviews, and BootRacer allows us to accuratly time Windows 7 64-bit reboot times down to hundredths of a second. We run the test on a fresh install of Windows 7 64-bit on the relevant SSD, first allowing five restarts to allow Windows 7 to get its caching together, before taking the average of the five subsequent reboot times as our result.

BootRacer Restart time

Restart time

  • OCZ Vector 256GB
  • OCZ Vertex 3 256GB
  • SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 Pro 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 830 512GB
  • Corsair Neutron GTX 480GB
  • OCZ Vertex 4 256GB
  • Samsung SSD 840 256GB
    • 9.14
    • 9.61
    • 9.76
    • 9.98
    • 10.12
    • 10.22
    • 10.47
    • 10.67
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5.5
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10.5
Seconds (lower is better)
  • Restart time (sec)

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