Model: Plextor M9PY Plus 512GB NVMe PCIe Solid State Drive
Manufacturer: Plextor
Provided By: Plextor LLC
As one of the biggest names in the storage industry, Plextor doesn't need much of an introduction. For nearly twenty years, they've produced some of the best optical drives the industry has seen. Known the world over for their quality, performance, and features, these drives have become favorites among consumers and professionals alike. Today, Plextor continues to lead the way by bringing cutting edge storage technologies to market. Along with an assortment of high-performance DVD and Blu-ray drives, the company offers a growing number of solid state drives.
At this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Plextor showcased its latest PCIe SSD, the M9P Plus. Designed for PC gamers and prosumers with intensive application requirements, this M.2 form factor drive is powered by Marvell's 88SS1092 "Eldora Plus" controller and is available with up to 1TB of Toshiba's 96-layer BiCS4 3D NAND flash. The M9P Plus is also equipped with a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 interface and features support for Plextor's new and improved PlexNitro II, TrueProtect II and SmartProtect technologies.
Like its predecessors, the M9P Plus is offered in a number of different capacities and configurations. The drive is available by itself in the M.2 2280 form factor (M9PGN Plus), with a small aluminum heatsink (M9PG Plus) and as an HHHL add-in card (M9PY Plus) that's equipped with an extra large heatsink and RGB LED lights. For this review, Plextor sent us the 512GB version of the of the add-in card, which is capable of delivering up to 3,400 MB/s sequential read and 2,200 MB/s sequential write speeds along with up to 340,000 random read and 320,000 random write IOPS.
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Needless to say, this is only a taste of what the M9P Plus has to offer. To give you an idea of what to expect, we'll take a closer look at Plextor's new PCIe SSD and then see how well it performs. Does the M9P Plus have what it takes? Can it deliver the performance and features that we've come to expect from Plextor? Keep reading as we find out.
