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Plextor announced its new M5 Pro Xtreme SSD at CES 2013, but M5 Pro owners also received a free performance increase thanks to new Xtreme firmware.
It seems that our relationship with Plextor has had a shot of Adrenaline since our meet at CES Las Vegas 2013 and ‘first up’ analysis of the new Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme SSD is the result. We did have a bit of a heads up when Plextor asked us to review the M5 Pro in this meeting, but definitely never expected the M5 Pro to arrive at our office, even before us, and not two weeks before this Xtreme we just finished testing! The Pro and the Extreme should be virtually identical, considering both contain the same controller, the same cache, same firmware and even 19nm NAND flash memory. The difference is that the Xtreme contains 16 modules of NAND flash memory vice the 8 of our M5 Pro review, the Xtreme also promising IOPS of 100,ooo. But wait…. didn’t we get that from the M5 Pro as well?
When the first mass production consumer oriented solid state drives (SSDs) made their appearance roughly 5 years ago we were all swept away by the performance gap compared to normal mechanical drives which in some cases was as much as 3 times over. Back then however price was indeed a huge issue and thus it wasn't until around 2 years ago that prices took a serious dive and allowed more and more people to own one either in their systems or to carry around as a portable solution. However although prices are very low as we speak since the introduction of SSDs we haven't really seen anything ground breaking that can match the how we felt back then and by that i mean that back then even normal consumers could "feel" the difference in loading times and system responsiveness whereas now this is not the case. Of course the technology behind SSDs keeps improving and aside the incredibly fast PCIex solutions we've just seen the introduction of 12Gbps drives however those are primarily aimed towards demanding enterprise use and because of that their launch prices are as expected off the charts. So since the next best thing for consumers is regular SATA III SSDs today we will be taking a thorough look at the PX-256M5Pro by Plextor.
Plextor's SSD range is the subject of our review today and we are going to look at the M5 Pro, one of the first drives around to use Marvell's newest controller. How does it stack up against the likes of OCZ's Vector and the Samsung 840 Pro? Let's find out...
Plextor, vor einigen Jahren vor allem durch optische Laufwerke bekannt geworden, hat sich mittlerweile auch im Bereich Storage bzw. Solid State Drives einen Namen gemacht und mischt die Branche regelmäßig mit hochwertigen Produkten auf. Bei der jüngsten SSD-Familie, der M5 Pro, setzt man auf eine Kombination von 19 nm Toshiba-NAND-Flashspeicher und Controller-Technologie aus dem Hause Marvell. Verglichen mit den zahlreichen SandForce-basierten Drives am Markt, die sich oft nur um wenige Zehntel in der Performance unterscheiden, hat Plextor damit die Möglichkeit massiv auf die Firmware einzuwirken und eigene Ideen umzusetzen. Wie erfolgreich man bei der Firmware-Entwicklung für den Marvell 88SS9187 bislang war und wie sich unser Testproband mit 256 GB Speicherkapazität in Sachen Preis/Leistung im Feld platzieren kann, lesen Sie in unserem ausführlichen Praxistest der Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme! Außerdem werfen wir einen Blick auf die Unterschiede zwischen der herkömmlichen M5 Pro und der verbesserten Xtreme-Variante. Wie immer wünschen wir Ihnen viel Spaß beim Lesen des Artikels!
It appears that the Xtreme firmware update for the Plextor M5 Pro is little more than a marketing ploy. While Plextor does indeed get in the vicinity of 100.000 4k read Iops, the SSD is not much faster in any of the other benchmarks. In some tests it's even slower with the new firmware than before.
It took practically forever to get our hands on Plextor’s M5 Pro Xtreme. The drive was launched in February or there about. In terms of an SSD’s marketable lifespan that’s a really long time ago. What this means is the M5 Pro has been a top tier enthusiast drive in the same class as OCZ’s Vector, Samsung’s 840 Pro, and the newly launched SanDisk Extreme II all along.
Heute haben wir eine Xtreme schnelle SSD zum Test in die Redaktion ocinside.de eingeladen, die Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB.
Die Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSD basiert wie die zuvor getestete Crucial M500 480GB SSD auf dem Marvell 88SS9187-BLD2 Controller und erreicht mit der neuen Plextor Firmware 1.03 eine erstaunlich hohe Performance.
Wir dürfen also auf den folgenden Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB Testbericht mit dem umfangreichen SSD Vergleich gespannt sein.
Plextor's new flagship M5 Pro Xtreme hits our lab in the 256GB capacity size. Can Plextor break into the top performance tier with this product or will Xtreme just be another mainstream drive with aspirations of the crown?
The Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB SSD is an amazing product. It has the Marvell 88SS9187 controller and Toshiba Toggle NAND flash, so it's super fast. As well, this drive has true protect data integrity and AES data encryption. Also, it's very reliable with a MTBF of 2.4 million and comes with a 5 year warranty.
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