SanDisk Ultra II (240GB)

Stuck in a tight battle with competitors.

If you’re in the market for an affordable ~240GB SSD, you could do worse than this (cough, look left). The Ultra II 240GB specs provide the details you need and want. Well, almost — the terabytes written (TBW) spec isn’t available, but the scenario beats the SSD Plus range.

With our tests, the SanDisk Ultra II trades blows with the Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB throughout the benchmarks suite, but it’s the AS SSD results that are most eye catching. The Ultra II delivers impressive sustained 4K read results through a chunky queue depth of 64. Due to this result, the summarised read score is significantly boosted, which heightens the overall score. The end result is an outlier, reaching a massive 170 points ahead of the Samsung 960 Pro 256GB. While the result is impressive, it’s a rare performance scenario that isn’t indicative of the overall performance and is worth being aware of when reviewing the test results.