Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB SSD Review 4

Plextor M5 Pro 256 GB SSD Review

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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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