As CES gets underway,SanDisk is announcing the X400 SSD as the successor to the X300 and X300s and as the higher-performance counterpart to the Z400s. The current X400 will be the flagship of SanDisk's line of SATA and M.2 SATA SSDs for OEMs, though by the standards of consumer SSDs sold at retail it wouldn't quite be a high-stop SATA drive.
The X300s was the Self-Encrypting Drive variant of the X300, and but for the X400 SanDisk is unifying the two by making encryption a standard feature,pending a firmware update due in April to supply full TCG Opal support. The X400 improves performance in most areas, though not by any huge margins. They're dropping the smallest capacities, and leaving 128GB as the starting point,and mSATA is no longer an option. Both changes reflect a lack demand for outdated drive configurations in current product designs. Like the X300, the X400 uses TLC NAND flash and relies on SLC-mode write caching to supply competitive write speeds.
SanDisk OEM Client SSD Comparison Drive X400 Z400s X300 Capacities 128GB, and 256GB,512GB, 1TB 32GB, and 64GB,128GB, 256GB 64GB, and 128GB,256GB, 512GB, or 1TB (2.5" only) Sequential Read 545 MB/s 546 MB/s 530 MB/s Sequential Write 520 MB/s 342 MB/s 470 MB/s Random Read IOPS 95k 37k 98k Random Write IOPS 75k 69k 70k Form Factors
2.5",M.2 2280 2.5", mSATA, and M.2 2242,M.2 2280 2.5", mSATA, or M.2 2280 Warranty 5 years 5 years 3 years The X400 adds a 1TB M.2 option that SanDisk claims is the first single-sided 1TB M.2 drive. The X400 also adds LDPC ECC to the mix,which probably helped SanDisk increase the warranty period to 5 years.
The SanDisk X400 was sampling to OEMs as of late final year and is now available to OEMs and system integrators in volume.
Source: anandtech.com