SanDisk Offers Security Software and Online Back-Up Features on USB Flash Drives

Introduces two new USB flash drives--the SanDisk Ultra® USB drive and the SanDisk Cruzer® Edge™ USB drive

Dubai - January 18^th, 2011: SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK), the global leader in flash memory cards, today announced that it is offering encryption and online backup features across its entire retail USB portfolio. SanDisk^® SecureAccess^™ software protects files against unauthorized access by creating an encrypted, password-protected folder or 'vault' on the USB drive. The software also includes up to 2 gigabytes (GB)¹ of secure online backup storage offered by Dmailer².

"With the UAE being a global business hub, it is among the most vulnerable countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to malicious attacks[i], hence data security has become an absolute necessity," said Tareq Husseini, SanDisk's Middle East and Africa Sales Director. "The SanDisk USB drives with SecureAccess software offer an easy to use vault protected by AES encryption."

SanDisk is also expanding its USB product portfolio with two new drives to meet the needs of a broad set of customers. The SanDisk Ultra^® USB flash drive features faster transfer rates and the SanDisk Cruzer^® Edge^™ USB drive offers easy portability.

The SanDisk Ultra USB flash drive features faster transfer speeds of up to 15 megabytes per second (MB/sec)³ and large storage capacities that help consumers conveniently manage libraries of multimedia content. The drive carries a five year limited warranty⁴ and comes in 8GB to 32GB capacities. The SanDisk Cruzer Edge USB flash drive features a compact slider design for easy portability, allowing consumers to carry anywhere their photos, music and videos with them. The drive carries a two year limited warranty⁵ and is available in 2GB to 16GB capacities.

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About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation is the global leader in flash memory cards - from research, manufacturing and product design to consumer branding and retail distribution. SanDisk's product portfolio includes flash memory cards for mobile phones, digital cameras and camcorders; digital audio/video players; USB flash drives for consumers and the enterprise; embedded memory for mobile devices; and solid state drives for computers. SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based S&P 500 company, with more than half its sales outside the United States.

¹1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.

² Registration required. Terms and conditions apply.

³ Up to 15MB/s read speed. Up to 10 MB/sec write speed applies to the first 20 MB of data transfer. Based on SanDisk internal testing; performance may be lower depending upon host device. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.

⁴Five year warranty in regions not recognizing "limited" warranty.

⁵ Two year warranty in regions not recognizing "limited" warranty.

*Source: Airport Insecurity, Ponemon Institute, 6-30-2008

© 2011 SanDisk Corporation. All rights reserved. SanDisk, the SanDisk logo and SanDisk Ultra are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation, registered in the U.S. and other countries. Cruzer Edge and SanDisk SecureAccess are trademarks of SanDisk Corporation. Other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s).

This press release contains certain forward-looking statements, including expectations for new product introductions, applications, features, markets, and customers that are based on our current expectations and involve numerous risks and uncertainties that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate. Risks that may cause these forward-looking statements to be inaccurate include among others: the market demand for our products may grow more slowly than our expectations, our products may not be available at the prices, or in the geographies or capacities that we anticipate, no security technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, our products may not perform as expected and the other risks detailed from time-to-time in our Securities and Exchange Commission filings and reports, including, but not limited to, our annual report on Form 10-K and our quarterly reports on Form 10-Q. We do not intend to update the information contained in this press release.

[i] Symantec's new Internet Security Threat Report volume XV states that the UAE 18^th in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region and 36^th in the world in 2009. Though, the UAE has seen an improvement in global ranking from number 40 to 36 in 2009.

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