Plextor Launches Super-Fast SSD

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Plextor, a leading developer of high-performance digital storage equipment, today announced the M5 Pro Series Solid State Drive, a high-performance professional-grade SSD engineered using the latest Marvell® 88SS9187 Monet controller. The M5 Pro provides a unique enterprise-grade double-data protection featuring random read/write speeds of up to 94,000/86,000 IOPS and sequential read/write speeds of up to 540/450 MB/s.

The M5 Pro has the ability to consistently deliver high read and write speeds for all forms of data and use the multi-core controller to handle extreme high loads. This makes the M5 Pro suitable for use in a heavy workstation, server role, or Raid 0 configuration setting. The M5 Pro also makes use of True Speed Technology to prevent the drastic performance drop seen in some SSDs after intense or long-term usage.
 
Wonder when these will hit the stores in USA. They have been selling in Japan for a week.
 
Each M5 Pro SSD is backed by an industry leading five-year warranty and Plextor’s extensive international support infrastructure. The Plextor M5 Pro will be available in 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB capacities from August 7, 2012.
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From Plextor web site.
 
These will be top dogs until other vendors come out with their drives using the latest Marvel controller. Hope the prices are reasonable.
 
This drives does include the latest Marvell controller as far as i know...
 
It's not so much the latest Marvell controller as a special multi-core controller for servers and heavy usage.
Pretty sure there will be a "latest" Marvell controller soon that will not beat the 88SS9187 because it will be a consumer version.

Launch article.
 
Ya, M5P is toggle versus Vertex asynchronous.

Hm. M5P not as fast as I thought it was going to be with that Marvell controller and toggle.
 
Honestly I think the current generation of SSD's are plenty fast. The thing that interests me about this drive is the 5 year warranty.
 
wtiger said:
Honestly I think the current generation of SSD's are plenty fast. The thing that interests me about this drive is the 5 year warranty.
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If these are reasonably priced, and the warranty isn't ridiculous for what qualifies, consider me in for one.
 
Wow, I was seriously thinking about buying a Samsung 830 this week. Do you guys think these new Plextor drives are worth waiting for?
 
wtiger said:
Honestly I think the current generation of SSD's are plenty fast. The thing that interests me about this drive is the 5 year warranty.
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And, if it is like the M3P and the M5S, great steady performance and behavior with no TRIM (which is pretty useful when doing full disk encryption).
 
Wait before you judge, if you want to see how fast the drive really is, wait for Anandtech storage benches.
 
Ashok0 said:
Wow, I was seriously thinking about buying a Samsung 830 this week. Do you guys think these new Plextor drives are worth waiting for?
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Yes, they're both great drives, if it follows in the M3P's footsteps, it'll be almost untouchable for this new generation. :cool:
 
I'd like to see some more reviews. But going solely from the tweaktown review, the M5P doesn't seem to be overall any better than the M3P. We need more reviews!
 
Anand with its Storage bench will make up my mind, i'm mostly interested in write speeds, since all of the SSD's read very fast already, installing 3x 20GB games in a row on fresh OS can be pain in the ass with low write performance SSD.
 
At a Japanese price of 21,480 Yen, the US price would be $274.47.

Assuming this happens, where the hell do I sign up ?
 
ir0nw0lf said:
/me will die laughing if someone buys it based solely on that... (unless someone is going to literally show the drive off)
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Sure, but brushed aluminum will always look better than most other SSDs. :p
 
wtiger said:
Honestly I think the current generation of SSD's are plenty fast. The thing that interests me about this drive is the 5 year warranty.
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Exactly. This is what garnered my interest:

Plextor claims they took 400 M5 Pro SSDs and stressed the drives for 500 hours. According to Plextor they not only completed the test without a failure, they didn't even have an error. With test sessions like that it's no wonder Plextor has retained the five year warranty on their flagship product.
 
Where are all the reviews? Only thing so far has been TT.
 
All i care is sustained write performance, i bet all if you guys here, did not install 3/4 games in a row after this period, the SSD's seems quite a bit slower.....read performance are already very good on all modern SSD's.

Anandtech storage bench is the most realistic usage for me, because i format often and write tons of data in that situations, i hate the significant slowdowns during install/write periods, my drive goes to like 50 mb/s during this periods.
 
Dear GOD!!!! :eek:

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I'm getting one of this when its available and hopefully not more then 300$ for 256GB :D
 
Manufacturers taking forever to come out with new items these days.
 
I don't know much about this site but they reviewed one.

http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/3028/plextor-m5-pro-128gb-review-fastest-ssd-currently-around

The Plextor M5 Pro 128GB is the fastest 120/128 GB SSD that we've ever tested. It set new records in PCMark Vantage, PCMark7 and AS SSD. Generally speaking, this SSD is faster than any SandForce-based models, faster than any Marvell 88SS9174-based models, faster than the Samsung SSD 830 and even a bit faster than the OCZ Vertex 4 128 GB that's built around the same chip. Add to that five years of warranty and a fitting package (bracket and data migration software) and we can easily conclude that the Plextor M5 Pro is the ultimate SSD currently on the market.
 
In addition to Plextor...Kingston, Corsair, and OCZ all have models that use Toshiba toggle flash. I'm not sure which (if any) of those are at IDF today.
 
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