SanDisk today announced their SanDisk Extreme II SSDs. These Solid State Disks use 19 nm NAND which likely is manufactured by Flash Forward, the joint venture between Toshiba and SanDisk. The drives will become available in capacities of 120, 240 and 480 GB.
The Extreme II series are specified to deliver up to 550MB/sec sequential read and 510MB/sec sequential write speeds. When it comes to random read/writes it should be to achieve 95,000 random read IOPS and 78,000 random write IOPS. SanDisk has also incorporated their nCache technology in these drives which is a large non volatile write cache, which should improve random write performance.
The drives have a MSRP of $129.99 for the 120 GB drive, $229.99 for the 240 GB drive and $439.99 for the 480 GB drive.
Besides the new SanDisk Extreme II SSDs, the company also announced SSDs for OEMs and/or PC makers. There are three new series, the U110 SSD, The iSSD i110 and the X110 SSD. The U110 SSD is a cheap drive available in the form factors half-slim SATA, mSATA, mSATA mini, 2.5” cased and NGFF (Next Generation Form Factor).
The iSSD i110 is the company’s smallest solid state device and delivers up to 128GB of digital storage in a compact BGA form factor. It's targeted for use in thin and light mobile computing devices. It's available in both 16x20mm and 12x16mm form factors.
The last one is the X110 SSD in mSATA form factor. This is the previously announced X110 SSD but now available in the mSATA format available in 32GB, 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities.
