Introduction A few months ago I took a look at a drive that has managed to slingshot Plextor right back into the enthusiast market with a drive that took the limitations of ...
August 26, 2014 at 8:00 am by Chris Hadley
One of the flagship selling points of Intel’s new 9 Series chipsets has been the ability to utilise faster storage mediums, notably the 10 Gbps M.2 ports most Z97 ...
June 25, 2014 at 9:43 am by Ryan Martin
Following the release of Plextors M6e PCIe solid state drive a few weeks ago, fans and enthusiasts have been eager to get their hands on the 2.5″ SATA version of the new ...
April 17, 2014 at 12:36 am by Chris Hadley
Introduction Over the last few years, virtually all of the solid state drives that I’ve looked at and put through their paces have been part of the SATA III family of ...
April 10, 2014 at 2:31 pm by Chris Hadley
Introduction In the world of solid state drives, there are a vast number of advantages to be seen and had over the older mechanical counterparts and aside from raw capacity ...
April 2, 2014 at 2:30 am by Chris Hadley
Following the announcement of the new M6 series of solid state drives during IFA last year, Plextor have been busy working away behind the scenes to get the range ready for ...
March 28, 2014 at 8:04 pm by Chris Hadley
Introduction During the middle stages of last year I took a look at a SSD that, in my eyes, set the ball rolling when it came to high capacity drives and with options of up to ...
March 18, 2014 at 12:40 pm by Chris Hadley
Introduction The SSD market as many people know it is inundated with drives that have one of LSI’s SandForce SF-2281 controllers at their heart and whilst this is not a ...
September 16, 2013 at 9:05 am by Chris Hadley
At IFA 2013 Plextor just unveiled some new storage options. Up first was the M6 SSD. This prototype drive uses a 5mm thin 2.5 inch form factor and a Marvell 88SS9187 ...
September 7, 2013 at 11:51 am by Ryan Martin
The ASUS WorkStation (WS) series of motherboards have taken off in popularity recently as they offer consumer platforms (such as LGA 1155/2011 with Z77/X79) but with ...
June 17, 2013 at 9:54 am by Ryan Martin
ADATA have been exhibiting a lot of SSDs at Computex 2013, we’ve already seen the SX1000 and SX2000 series but now its time to have a quick look at their XPG S920 series ...
June 5, 2013 at 9:21 pm by Ryan Martin
Looking at the vast number of drives on the market, there are so many different combinations of controller and flash memory to choose from, for some it is a daunting prospect ...
May 20, 2013 at 7:54 am by Chris Hadley
At the start of the year during CES, the major buzz word of the show as we all know was 4K, but whilst this was a buzz word, in the storage sector there were other goings on ...
May 14, 2013 at 9:54 am by Chris Hadley
OCZ’s Vertex series of SSDs have been highly popular with enthusiasts, particularly their Vertex 4 series which managed to drop the “bad name” that the early ...
April 12, 2013 at 3:25 am by Ryan Martin
