Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB SSD Review

Name: Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB SSD
Brand: Plextor

on Aug 8th, 2013,

in SSD.

Manufacturer: Plextor

Test Setup

Test System
CPU:	Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.3 GHz (Sandy Bridge, 6144 KB Cache)
Motherboard:	ASUS P8H67-M LX Intel H67
Memory:	2x 2048 MB Kingston HyperX PC3-12800U DDR3 @ 1333 MHz 9-9-9-24
Graphics:	Intel Integrated
Software:	Windows 7 64-bit Service Pack 1
Drivers:	SATA: Microsoft AHCI Display: Intel 15.21.13

After the initial configuration and installation, we created a disk image that will be used to test every drive.
Automated updates were disabled for all programs. This ensures that—for every review—each drive gets the same settings without any interference from previous testing.
Our disk image consumes around 58 GB—we resized the partition to fill all available space on the drive.
Partitions were checked for alignment.
In order to minimize random variation, each of the real-life performance tests is run ten times with reboots in-between tests to minimize the impact of disk cache. We used the average of ten runs as the final score.
All application benchmarks run the actual application and do not replay any disk traces.

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