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The Plextor M6e arrives in a bright red box with the product name highlighted in yellow on the front.
The rear of the box lists specifications of the product, along with others in the range.
Inside, Plextor include literature on the product, including installation instructions. They also include a ‘VIP' card, which opens up to detail product registration alongside the download of the Plextool SSD Utility.
The Plextor M6e drive measures 180.98 mm x 121.04 mm x 22.39 mm and weighs 72 grams. Shock resistance is rated at 1500G, a 1 msec half sine.
The Plextor M6e series solid state drives are based on Toshiba's second generation multi level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory, made using 19nm process technology with toggle DDR interface. It is powered by the Marvell 88SS9183 flash controller with multiple cores for efficient performance. The M6 series solid state drives use Plextor's new proprietary ‘TrueSpeed' technology that ensures long term performance stability and effective multi-tasking. They also support Adaptive Write, which is Plextor's next generation proprietary firmware technology designed to maintain SSD performance under heavy workloads for the life of the drive.
Plextor rate the life of the unit at 2,400,000 hours, or a full 5 years.
Well I am glad to see this, I had a revodrive for 4 months and it was the most unreliable piece of crap I have ever owned. OCZ went out of business for a reason 🙁 This seems well priced too. watching for a store link!
Its a good price really, If you want this performance you need to RAID 0 two budget 256GB drives, lose 2 SATA ports – which I would rather have for my mechanical storage drives. I like it.
The article states the test was performed on an Asus P8P67 Deluxe motherboard, but the one depicted is a Maximums VI. Could you clarify which platform it was?
Apologies John, there was a paragraph of text which should not have been there on the methodology page. it was tested on the Maximus, the Kitguru Test rig, which is sold by PCSPECIALIST. (same as the image shown).
Thanks for the super-speedy answer Zardon, and for the clarification. Was wondering if an older platform would constrain the performance or distort possible expected performance for end users, glad to see that was not the case. Much appreciated.
Apologies for what might be a silly question, would it be worth it price-wise if I got a low end SSD and held out for SATA Express or got one of these and kept it for a while after SATA Express came out, would it be worth it and would the performance be okay even after?
Hi Richard, it all depends on how much you want to spend. A low end SSD right now is very inexpensive, whereas this M6e will be more expensive. As we said, the M6e is faster than any SSD you can get right now, due to limitations of the SATA interface. To be honest however, most people would be happy with a standard, cost effective SSD running via a SATA 6Gbps port.
I’m bottlenecking at the moment on a mechanical hard drive, I think I’ll get a mid range SSD and wait for SATA Express but maybe something will happen through the year. Thanks for the fast response 🙂