Plextor M6S Serial publication

The Plextor M6S is the commencement and currently the only 2.5" M6 serial publication SSD and is available in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities. The 128GB mannequin costs just $100 for 128GB which works out to be $0.78 per gigabyte, the 256GB drive costs $165 ($0.64 per gigabyte), and the 512GB version costs $400 which deeds out to cost the same be per GB Eastern Samoa the smallest model.

When compared to the competition, the M6S 256GB is one of the more expensive SSDs money prat buy at this capacity. There are much cheaper alternatives, such as the Crucial M500 240GB, Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB, SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB and ADATA PM Pro SP600, all of which retail for just $120 or $0.50 per gigabyte.

Consumers can also pick out from the Samsung 840 Evo 250GB, OCZ Vertex 460 240GB Beaver State ADATA XPG SX900 256GB at $140, while $160 can buy the OCZ Vector 150 240GB, Jamaican capita HyperX 240GB and SanDisk X210 256GB. Only the Intel SSD 530 Serial 240GB and Crucial M550 256GB match the Plextor M6S 256GB at $165, thusly it has a serious amount of competition to deal with.

Performance-wise, the 128GB model is naturally the slowest with a write speed of just 300MB/s and has a 256GB DDR3 DRAM cache, all models offer the same 520MB/s read bucket along. The 256GB model is much faster with a write zip of 420MB/s and a bigger 512MB cache, and the 512GB model is faster again at 440MB/s for the writes and has a 768MB cache.

All three models use the Marvell 88SS9188 controller which has been flashed with a custom firmware. This is the first clip we have seen the controller and IT is similar to the 88SS9189 used by the Important M550. That said, the amount of channels has been reduced from eight to just four, qualification this more of a budget/low battery-powered alternative.

That being the case, information technology isn't surprising that the Crucial drive is faster boasting translate and publish speeds of 550MB/s and 500MB/s respectively, though the haphazard 4K IOPS are well-nig the same.

Along with the Marvell controller are a number of Toshiba's second-generation 19nm A19nm MLC NAND memory chips. The M6S is said to be good for a total of 72TBs worth of writes operating room 66GB per Clarence Shepard Day Jr. inside the three-year warranty period and that's a heck of a good deal.

The M6S meets the latest SATA power thrifty mode spec and supports the up-to-the-minute DEVSLP power mode, allowing M6S to outride on and connected for 24 hours. In DEVSLP superpowe mode, the M6S's consumption is a mere 2mW and its resume time is but 100 milliseconds. Under sleep mode, powerfulness consumption is even depress, thusly extending battery sprightliness.

Finally, arsenic a 2.5" SSD, the M6S drives appraise 100mm long, 69.85mm wide and 6.8mm thick and are sheathed in a glistening silver aluminum enclosure. They weigh just 60 grams and support features so much as TRIM, S.M.A.R.T., NCQ, ATA/ATAPI-8 and Information Encryption.