The Sandisk X400 is the world's thinnest 1TB SSD

Sandisk at CES 2016 unveiled a 1TB solid state drive (SSD) called X400, which the company claims to be the world's thinnest 1TB SSD. "It is the first single-sided 1TB SATA M.2 form factor with a mere 1.5mm height," the company said in a statement. The SSD has been design to offer faster PC boot and faster application launch time. 

The X400 SSD has offers read/write speeds of up to 545MB/s and 520MB/s, respectively. It has random read/write speeds of up to 95,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) and 75,000 IOPS, respectively. It can endure up to 320TB worth of writes over its lifetime.

The Sandisk X4000 comes in a 2.5-inch case and M.2 2280 for factors with capacity of 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB. In addition, it offers data protection through AES 256-bit compliant encryption.

As the X400 SSD is targeted at the enterprise sector, Sandisk has taken extra caution to make it more durable. "enterprise PC users can expect exceptional reliability with X400 even with heavy use", said the company.  In testing, a 256GB X400 SSD was rated to operate for more than five years with a workload of approximately 40GB per day.