SanDisk CloudSpeed 1000E Enterprise SSD Review

Performance Summary: The SanDisk CloudSpeed 1000E offered competitive performance throughout our testing. The drive trailed most of the other drives we tested in terms of large sequential transfers, but finished near the top with small file transfers, especially at higher queue depths. The trace-based tests showed the CloudSpeed 1000E competing well with other drives in its class, and the CloudSpeed 1000E's performance remains consistent, regardless of the compressibility of the data being transferred.


The SanDisk CloudSpeed 1000E

If you go back and look through all of our benchmarks, the SanDisk CloudSpeed 1000E didn’t blow past competing drives in any one particular category. But the benchmarks only tell part of the story. The CloudSpeed 1000E is a drive designed for consistency and very high-reliability, which is difficult to show with a smattering of bar charts.

The CloudSpeed 1000E’s Guardian Technology allows the drive to offer 5x the endurance of some other MLC-based SSDs, which is how SanDisk is able to rate the drive for 3 – 7 drive writes per day and a 5-year warranty, despite its use of 19nm NAND. The CloudSpeed 1000E also has built-in power fail protection, and as we mentioned earlier, it also offers an MTBF of 2 million hours, and an uncorrectable bit error rate (UBER) of less than 1 in 1018 bits read, which is many times higher than the JEDEC JESD 218 spec for enterprise grade SSDs.

When you add it all up, the SanDisk CloudSpeed 1000E offers consistent, competitive performance, with very high endurance and reliability, which makes it ideally suited to the enterprise. You’ll pay for a drive of this type (CloudSpeed 1000E drives are available for about $2.35/GB currently), but if you need a solid state drive for mission critical applications, the SanDisk CloudSpeed 1000E is worthy of serious consideration.

  • Very High Endurance
  • Good, Consistent Performance
  • SanDisk synonymous with Flash Storage
  • 7mm Z-Height 
  • Didn't Lead the pack in any particular area
  • Expensive

Marco Chiappetta

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com

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