SanDisk Ultra Plus SSD (256GB) - A Marvell Alternative

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HD Tune is one of the more popular and benchmarking tools for measuring the performance of storage drives. Again, we noticed that the SanDisk Ultra Plus posted very strong read and write performance. It was definitely more than capable of standing its ground against fast drives such as the SanDisk Extreme and Intel SSD 520 Series.

However, random access performance was generally below par. As with many other Marvell-driven drives, random access read performance was problematic and random access write performance was uninspired as justified by its random average write speed of just 209.7 MB/s - less than half of what drives like the OCZ Vertex 4 and Intel SSD 520 Series are capable of.