SanDisk Unveils New SanDisk Ultra II SSD—An Easy, Cost-Effective Solution to Supercharge Your PC
August 19 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
New Drive and Enhanced SSD Dashboard Deliver
Better Performance, Durability, and Power Efficiency
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), a global leader in flash
storage solutions, today announced the new SanDisk Ultra® II SSD
with enhanced SSD Dashboard. The new drive is designed to deliver a
cost-effective and easy upgrade solution for PC owners looking to
improve performance, battery life, and power efficiency. The
enhanced SSD Dashboard provides visibility into the drive’s
performance, security, and available firmware updates, to maintain
peak performance at all times.
SanDisk Ultra® II SSD (Photo: Business
Wire)
“We live in an era where we expect to have information at our
fingertips anytime, anywhere, with technology that keeps us
connected to both our personal and work lives on devices that won’t
fail,” said Dinesh Bahal, vice president of retail product
marketing at SanDisk. “The new SanDisk Ultra II SSD, together with
the improved SSD Dashboard, provides consumers with an easy,
affordable way to ensure that their PC can keep pace with their
increasingly connected, information-driven lifestyle.”
Everything You Do On Your Computer, Faster
With the new SanDisk Ultra II SSD you can upgrade your hard disk
drive-based PC to experience up to 28 times performance
improvement1 and up to 15 percent longer battery life2. The drive
features sequential read speeds of up to 550 MB/s* and write speeds
of up to 500 MB/s*, allowing for faster boot up time and shorter
application loads. Based on X3 NAND Flash technology, the SanDisk
Ultra II SSD comes equipped with nCache™ 2.0 technology that
utilizes a two-tiered caching architecture to optimize drive speed
and endurance. The drive is also shock resistant, which keeps data
safe even if the computer is bumped or dropped.
Easy to Use SSD Dashboard Monitors Drive Status and
Management
The SanDisk Ultra II SSD comes with the enhanced SanDisk SSD
Dashboard, which displays the drive’s performance, manual or
scheduled TRIM, available firmware updates and tips on how to
maintain the drive at its peak operation. Users can choose from 17
different languages and get assistance from “Live Chat” and “Ask a
Question via Email” buttons. Additional value-added software
features of the SanDisk SSD Dashboard include:
- Cloning– Ability to create an
exact replica of an old drive onto the new SanDisk Ultra II SSD in
three easy steps with Apricorn’s EZ GIG IV. With the cloning
software, there is no need to re-install the operating system,
programs or settings.
- Antivirus– Easy-to-use security
for what consumers do most online - email, socialize, and browse
with Trend Micro™ Titanium™ Antivirus+.
- Theft Recovery– Created by
Absolute Software, Absolute® LoJack is the leader in consumer data
protection and theft recovery, providing a persistent solution that
can locate a device if stolen and return it to the rightful
owner.
“Consumers upgrading their PC for a faster experience with the
SanDisk Ultra II SSD want the data migration process to be easy,”
said Mike McCandless, vice president of sales and marketing,
Apricorn, Inc. “We’re excited to partner with SanDisk to
provide the Apricorn EZ Gig cloning software to SanDisk customers
for simple data migration from slower hard disk drives. EZ Gig is
available either through the new SanDisk SSD Dashboard software
suite or within the SanDisk SSD Conversion kit and works with all
SanDisk client SSDs.”
The SanDisk Ultra II SSD comes with a 3-year warranty and will
be available online and through SanDisk’s worldwide network of
authorized distributors and resellers in September. It will be
offered in capacities of 120GB (MSRP $79.99), 240GB (MSRP $114.99),
480GB (MSRP $219.99), and 960GB (MSRP $429.99). For more
information on the SanDisk Ultra II SSD, please visit
www.sandisk.com/products/ssd/sata/ultra-ii.
About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500
company, is a global leader in flash storage solutions. For more
than 25 years, SanDisk has expanded the possibilities of storage,
providing trusted and innovative products that have transformed the
electronics industry. Today, SanDisk’s quality, state-of-the-art
solutions are at the heart of many of the world's largest data
centers, and embedded in advanced smart phones, tablets and PCs.
SanDisk’s consumer products are available at hundreds of thousands
of retail stores worldwide. For more information, visit
www.sandisk.com.
* Based on internal testing; performance may vary depending upon
drive capacity, host device, OS and application. 1MB=1,000,000
bytes.
1 As compared to 7200 RPM SATA 2.5” hard drive. Based on
published specifications and internal benchmarking
2 SanDisk SSD Deployment Whitepaper, 2013, see
http://www.sandisk.com/goto/ssdupgrade/Downloads/SanDisk_SSD_Deployment_White_Paper.pdf
© 2014 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk and
SanDisk Ultra are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in
the U.S. and other countries. nCache is a trademark of SanDisk
Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
This news release contains certain forward-looking statements,
including expectations for technology and product introductions,
product capabilities, costs and performance, markets and industry
trends that are based on our current expectations and involve
numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these
forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause
these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among
others: the market demand for our products may grow more slowly
than our expectations or our products may not be available when we
expect or in the capacities that we expect or perform as expected,
or the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and
Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited
to, our most recent annual report on Form 10-K. We do not intend to
update the information contained in this press release.
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