Does the SanDisk Extreme post speed ratings? It looks like the flash drive shown in the article has some of the fastest posted speeds, at 200 MB/s read, 120 MB/s write. The SanDisk Extreme doesn't post speeds, it appears, but just says "up to 10 times faster* than USB 2.0" and I can't figure out what the asterisk refers to.
This is the kind of thing I'd defer to Tom's Hardware or maybe Ars Technica or something for a comprehensive comparison, but I've never gone wrong in buying Sandisk products (except when in Asia, where 90% of the devices, even at "real" stores, were counterfeit with less than advertised storage capacity; I ended up having a friend buy real products from Amazon and bring them to me when she flew in).