[section_title title=”Closer Look”]Closer Look
Opening the review with the packaging, SanDisk have gone with a very well designed cardboard box which is not only svelte, but is quite colourful; the packaging follows a traditional SanDisk red and black colour scheme. On the front of the box is an illustration of the SanDisk Extreme PRO drive and a notification that this drive contains a massive 10 year warranty; that will surely please consumers!
Inside the packaging, we have an instruction booklet, SanDisk SSD Dashboard card regarding warranty/software and a spacer to allow installation into compatible notebooks; some notebooks/caddies don’t natively support 7mm drivers without spacers and the last thing you want is your drive flopping around inside.
Taking a closer look at the drive itself, it follows the regular SanDisk red and black colour scheme with some very nice contrasting gold text. The sticker contains information including the model number, the fact it’s a solid state drive and of course that it’s made by SanDisk; pretty standard stuff but this lack of overcrowding and overpowering colours attributes to the sleek aesthetic on display here.
Now SanDisk are well known for using Marvell controllers in their SSDs and the Extreme PRO is no different in that regard. Featuring a SATA3 (6GB/s) interface, this particular drive should have no problems in achieving 500/500MB/s read/write speeds and with the SanDisk nCache Pro Technology ensuring solid reliability and consistent performance, SanDisk could well be one of the most stable long term investments in terms of SSDs.
The rear of the SSD is like pretty much every other offering on the market in terms of style; it features a white label sticker. This contains information such as the serial number, model number, capacity, interface, European safety information and of course the country of manufacture; China.
Overall the general aesthetic is nice and as I previously mentioned, the contrasting red and black theme is nice and will surely fit many people’s builds; especially ASUS ROG or MSI GAMING themed systems.
