PNY's XLR8 Pro vs SanDisk's Ultra Plus

Kai Dowin

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Hello!

I'm on the market for my first SSD, which is going to be a 120GB one.

Considering that the SanDisk's offering is US$10 cheaper compared to the PNY's, which one should I take?
 

Kai Dowin

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Jan 16, 2014
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Unfortunately I'm currently dwelling in a quite remote location and my only offerings aside Kingston's V300 - which I dislike due the NANDgate affair - are PNY's XLR8 Pro and SanDisk's Ultra Plus. I'd love to get a Samsung one if the situation where more favourable.

As I said, the PNY one is the XLR8 Pro that comes with a SandForce SF-2281 controller. I'm not sure on the sort of NAND but I think it's Micron made 25 nm MLC chips.

The SanDisk offering is powered by a Marvell 88SS9175 controller and uses SanDisk's in-house 19 nm MLC NAND.

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I don't really need superb performance as they're going to replace a regular 5400 rpm HDD on a notebook and the performance gain will be dramatic either way. Data integrity, on the other hand, is something I deeply prize.