Testseek.com have collected 60 expert reviews of the Plextor M5M Series mSATA and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Plextor M5M Series mSATA.
August 2013
(85%)
60 Reviews
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Good (128GB) size for a boot drive, excellent compressible and incompressible performance results, very competitive pricing,
Be aware of many mSATA slot limitations on current motherboards, Kitguru says: A wicked fast mSATA drive suited for boot duties, Rating: 8.5, Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10, Share, Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Tags 128GB Ple
Solid State Drives have revolutionised the industry in recent years and are adopted now in a wide range of laptop and desktop computers.With prices dropping in the last year there is very little reason not to upgrade a home system, especially as software...
The Plextor M5M 128GB is somewhat slower than its 2.5-inch counterpart, but compared to the other two mSATA SSDs the Plextor M5M is the fastest. For a desktop PC you're still better off with a 2.5-inch SSD, they're cheaper and generally still faster. H...
When building a mSATA SSD Plextor could be forgiven for cutting a lot of corners when compared to their desktop drives. They could have, but didn't. From the controller used to the branded chips, we get quality parts here, just like the desktop equivalent...
The minimal physical resources required for solid-state drives make them an ideal candidate for being presented in a wide variety of small form factors. Most often seen in 2.5in SATA-connected drives, another connector called mSATA is now becoming popula...
mSATA form factor, Available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB capacities, Excellent sequential read and write speeds, Good random read and write performance, Performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data, SATA 6Gb/s interface, Toggle Mode NAND f
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Plextor's new M5M series SSD is proof that good things do come in small packages. This pint-sized powerhouse combines Marvell's new 88SS9187 controller with Toshiba's 19nm Toggle Mode NAND flash to deliver a fast, responsive computing experience. In o...
The Plextor M5M mSATA based SSD is a shockingly good SSD with excellent performance and reliability. The overall write performance is merely a hint slower compared to its big brother and we stated this many times, you'd never ever even notice the write d...
Abstract: Video Review: The Plextor M5M 256GB mSATA SSD is an amazing product. It has the Marvell 88SS9187 controller and Toshiba Toggle NAND flash, so it's super fast. As well, this drive has true protect data integrity and AES data encryption. Also, it's ver...
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Published: 2013-05-13, Author: Les , review by: thessdreview.com
This year is supposed to see the overall acceptance of the M.2, or NGFF (Next Generation Form Factor), to provide for a uniform and general adaption of ‘mSATA type' SSDs as a whole. Right now we have the older mini-PCIe SSD, mSATA SSD, two different but s...
Published: 2013-04-17, Author: Kristian , review by: anandtech.com
In essence, the M5M is M5 Pro but in mSATA form factor. Performance wise the two are closely related, even though the M5 Pro has twice the raw NAND bandwidth. In most scenarios, however, we are not bound by the bandwidth between the NAND and the controlle...
