In House Review - Plextor PX-256M5P 256GB Solid State Drive

[Ian]

Today, CDRLabs brings you a review of Plextor's new 256GB M5 Pro Series SSD, the PX-256M5P. Powered by Plextor's True Speed technology, this 7mm thick SSD uses high quality components like Marvell's new 88SS9187 controller chip and Toshiba's 19nm Toggle NAND flash to deliver up to 540MB/s read and 450MB/s write speeds as well as a maximum of 86,000 4KB random write IOPS. The M5 Pro also features an enterprise-grade double-data protection system to protect the integrity and confidentiality of your data. This system includes 256-bit AES encryption as well as Plextor's new True Protect technology, which ensures that data is stored and retrieved without error.


Plextor PX-256M5P 256GB Solid State Drive

[Ian]

It's finally in stock at Newegg!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820249027

It's not cheap though...

[Scour]

Another great SSD from Plextor, but again to expensive for "felt performance"

Well, maybe the M5S someday gets cheap enough to buy

BTW, wahat can you do with Plextools ? Remember it only for optical media

[Ian]

The Pro versions are always expensive. I'd expect the M6S to perform nearly as well and cost a lot less.

Plextool for SSDs: plextor-release-plextool-utility-for-and-pro-ssds-t25635.html

I don't know what Plextor is doing with Plextool. The download link no longer works.

I ordered a second PX-256M5P and will be posting some RAID results one of these days.

[Scour]

Thanks for the link

But who uses Raid for SSD?

[Ian]

People who are crazy and want 1000 MB/s speeds?

[Scour]

Maybe ^^

I know there are maybe some of those guys, but I doubt there are many

[Scour]

Looks like the new CDI can interprete NAND Read/Write

http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=plextorw1rps.jpg

You dont have a M5S for review?

[Ian]

You dont have a M5S for review?

Nope and after seeing some of the other reviews posted, I'm glad I skipped it in favor of the M5 Pro

[Scour]

It looks like a Crucial M4 with Plextor-FW and a bit higher priced.

But I think it´s ok for it´s price

[Ian]

Yeah, it was Plextor's attempt to break into the entry level market. The problem was that it really wasn't an improvement over the M3 Series.

[Scour]

Yeah, M3 had Toshiba MLC-Toggle 24nm, M5S have Intel 24nm MLC-NAND

But M5S is the cheapest Plextor

[Ian]

In case you guys don't check Facebook, here's what two PX-256M5P's can do in RAID 0.

Plextor PX-256M5P CDM RAID0.png (42.97 KiB) Viewed 14075 times

IOPS jump to 160,000 at QD32.

[Scour]

I´m not on Facebook;)

Nice, but did u really feel the difference in standard-use of PC?

[Ian]

Nice, but did u really feel the difference in standard-use of PC?

lol.. no, you won't. Upgrading from a HDD to an SSD is a huge upgrade. Anything beyond that isn't really going to be noticeable for everyday stuff. Now if you're editing a lot of videos or working with a database, you probably would.

[Scour]

Have a M5S 256GB and still think it´s a good bang for the buck

FW-Support is great, but still don´t feel any difference in something ^^

CDI can only show Host Write, not Read; it´s not extreme important, but itwould be nicer for statistics