That said, the SanDisk Ultra Plus is in no way a slow SSD. It still makes a great upgrade for those moving on from using a hard drive as the main drive of their computer, be it a laptop or a desktop.

Erasing an SSD drive not only sanitizes the drive, but recovers lost performance on systems with inefficient garbage collection. We'll show you how to securely erase your SSD drive.

We take Sandisk's flagship SSD for a spin, and see how it scales in performance from a single drive all the way to a powerful six-drive RAID 0 array.

That price makes the Sandisk Extreme 480GB SSD one of the lowest priced, high capacity SSDs on the market, and it's not even a drive with low performance asynchronous flash.

We're a passionate group of PC builders who know our way around a solid-state drive (SSD), so we know how to choose between two of the leading choices right now.