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As a package, the Plextor M6 Pro is without doubt one of the most impressive solid state drives we have tested this year. First impressions certainly are memorable – we have yet to see a Solid State drive ship in a rose gold box, with such an extensive bundle, including caching software, SATA cables, adapter bays and other goodies.
Build quality is exceptional and while some people may not care for a rose gold brushed aluminum chassis with screen printing, there is no doubt that the company have went the extra mile with the presentation.
Technically, we rate the Marvell 88SS9187 controller highly – it isn't the first time we have tested it inside a high end Solid State drive. It deals with compressible and incompressible date to equally high levels, ensuring practical uses inside more serious workstation environments.
IOPS performance is excellent, our own tests rated very close to official Plextor 4k random claims of 100,000 read and 86,000 write. This would make the drive not only ideal for dealing with incompressible video, but database oriented workloads. Gamers may be contemplating the drive, but it really is an ideal partner for a more serious workstation environment.
Pricing reflects the high levels of performance – UK pricing for the 256GB drive is said to around the £115 inc vat mark, although availability is still very poor in the United Kingdom. For the average gamer – we still think the Samsung 840 EVO drives offer the best value and capacity at remarkable pricing (840 Evo 250GB £83.99 inc vat). If you have other, more intensive demands to place on an SSD, then the Plextor M6 Pro should definitely make the final shortlist of products.
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Pros:
- balanced all round performance.
- 4k random IOPS rates close to 100,000.
- incompressible and compressible data handled equally well.
- Plexturbo works well.
Cons:
- expensive.
Kitguru says: The Plextor M6 Pro is a great ultimate performance drive, but the pricing is set to target the discerning workstation user within an extremely high demand environment.
How does the faked ~4000MB/sec speed actually compare to a 4000MB/sec PCIe NVMe drive?
Why wouldn’t you not use the turbo mode all of the time, and then wipe out the competition?
Show me an NVMe SSD that uses more than 4 lanes (32Gbit)
Havent seen any yet.
I’d be interested to see plexturbo run on an X99 with quad channel DDR4…cough.
That 4000MB/s is not the actual speed of the M6 Pro. It’s the system’s memory. Meanwhile the speeds in PCIE based SSD’s are really their raw performance speed. Here’s another review: http://thepcenthusiast.com/plextor-m6-pro-ssd-256gb-review/