Conclusion

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The XLR8 from Extrememory is a SandForce SF-2281 based SSD which comes with remarkably constant performance values. Especially the sequential throughput rates don't show much deviation. Regarding random Read/Write operations the this drive is able to score very well regarding the random read IOPS. In fact the drive is almost as fast as the 240 Gigabyte models with SF-2281 controller. Normally the 240 Gigabyte drives are much faster than the 120 Gigabyte models. Concerning random writes one might wish that there were a few thousand more IOPS than what we got from the benchmark. 

The delivery is quite poor. Users who want to migrate their operating system from a HDD to their new SSD might be very happy about a Disk Imaging Software like for example one can get it from Acronis or Symantec.

Last but not least there is the price: at the moment you'll have to pay CHF 229.- (est. EUR 191.-) for this 120 Gigabyte SF-2281 drive with Toggle NAND flash. This is not exactly cheap but still competitive.

We give this drive good four out of five stars.