Friday, January 9th 2015
Plextor Announces M6e Black Edition PCI-Express SSD
Plextor launched its flagship SSD for PC enthusiasts, the M6e Black Edition. Clearly intended for enthusiast PC builds, miles away from an enterprise environment, this drive features a focus on product design, with its matte black PCB, full-length metal shroud, and a racy red aluminium heatsink popping out from a cutout in that shroud. This heatsink cools the controller and NAND flash chips. The drive comes in three capacities - 128 GB, 256 GB, and 512 GB.
Under the hood, the M6e Black Edition is essentially an M.2 riser with PCI-Express 2.0 x4 wiring. The drive sitting on its M.2 slot is driven by a Marvell 88SS9183 controller, wired to Toshiba-made 19 nm Toggle NAND flash, and 1 GB of DRAM cache. The drive offers sequential transfer rates of up to 770 MB/s reads, with up to 625 MB/s writes; with up to 105,000 IOPS 4K random reads, and up to 100,000 IOPS 4K random writes. In addition to PCIe bus power, the drive requires power from a SATA power connector. Features include PlexTurbo 2.0 technology that shuttles hot data to system memory, TRIM, NCQ, and NVMe. The drive is bootable.
Under the hood, the M6e Black Edition is essentially an M.2 riser with PCI-Express 2.0 x4 wiring. The drive sitting on its M.2 slot is driven by a Marvell 88SS9183 controller, wired to Toshiba-made 19 nm Toggle NAND flash, and 1 GB of DRAM cache. The drive offers sequential transfer rates of up to 770 MB/s reads, with up to 625 MB/s writes; with up to 105,000 IOPS 4K random reads, and up to 100,000 IOPS 4K random writes. In addition to PCIe bus power, the drive requires power from a SATA power connector. Features include PlexTurbo 2.0 technology that shuttles hot data to system memory, TRIM, NCQ, and NVMe. The drive is bootable.
15 Comments on Plextor Announces M6e Black Edition PCI-Express SSD
Samsung are really on a roll, it seems, forcing others to market their stuff by "dressing it up", since it lags in performance.
More could earn if I sell this type of carrier and that for RAID .
Just wonder if you can change that m.2 card of these drive. And how is that pcie2 x2 keeping performance down. Kingston uses x4 and have more speed.
I like the heatsink it looks like it's made to take the heat completely away from any chips.
www.solidstateworks.com/ioDrive2-Duo.asp
both are made of unobtanium.
..but i do know somebody that had one.
Then there is SCM and Secureboot which are all rolled into this as well.
Running my (not 4 x, but 2 x) Plextor m6e again, and all is well in the world.
Quick look at the prices at 256GB m.2 ssds from germany:
m6e-hhhl start at 213€, m6e m.2, start at 184€, xp941 m.2 start at 249€, Delock adapter cardat 19€. Yes the m6e is inferior than xp941, but it's a lot cheaper too. Granted this m6e-bk is all in all old tech(rebranded m6e-hhhl with prettier outfit, why to hell not m7e), and if it's prized poorly it's bad product.