Testseek.com have collected 124 expert reviews of the Plextor 2.5 inch M5 Pro Series SATA600 and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Plextor 2.5 inch M5 Pro Series SATA600.
May 2013
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The editors liked
The Plextor M5 Pro solid-state drive (SSD) offers fast performance and comes with useful accessories and software
New 19nm NAND flash
Excellent performance
Five year warranty
Price
The editors didn't like
The drive doesn't include a USB-SATA adapter
And its pricing is not known at the time of the review
Plextor's M5 Pro Series SSD is impressive by itself but when two or more are combined in a RAID array, the performance is nothing short of amazing. Using a pair of PX-256M5P's and an off the shelf, Ivy Bridge-based PC, I was able to read at speeds as ...
Abstract: Plextor’s recent history is an inspiring example of how a clever marketing and engineering strategy can help a firm which only has access to assembly manufacture to quickly rise to the top tier of makers of consumer-class solid state drives. Of course,...
Plextor is one of the first to market with the new Marvell Monet 88SS9187-BLD2 controller and new 19nm Toshiba Toggle NAND inside the M5 Pro. Employing these two cutting edge technologies together into the Plextor M5 Pro package pays big dividends. With t...
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Published: 2012-09-27, Author: Richard , review by: tomshardware.com
Plextor's M5 Pro is the first drive from any vendor to use Toshiba's 19 nm NAND, and it's the second SSD equipped with Marvell's 88SS9187-BLD2 controller. The combination of both advancements, in conjunction with the company's custom firmware, delivers ve...
The M5 Pro is all new technology at this point and as always there is a maturation process. We know there is practically an infinite number of ways to adjust performance through fine tuning of firmware when it comes to Marvell FPU’s so who knows a shot...
Abstract: Plextor's strength lies in performance and quality. As we saw with the M3 Pro, they have a firmware team capable of delivering top-of-the-class performance: The M3 Pro was easily the fastest Marvell 88SS9174 based SSD and overall it was one of the f...
« August 5th, 2012 by Jennifer , , Basic Performance TestAs for the performance test, we would still used the in our earlier review, additionally the test items were the same.In AS SSD test, M5P delivered continuous read and write speed of 509MB/s...
Samsung's 850 Pro SSDs are without a doubt the fastest SSDs of this moment. Given that this product does not seem to have any flaws, we heartily recommend it to those who are looking for the fastest possible SSD. The Vector 150 and AMD Radeon R7 SSDs ar...
