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Plextor Announces the M10Pe PCIe and M9V SATA SSD Series
Next-Gen PCIe SSD from Plextor Plextor has unveiled their latest M10Pe NVMe PCIe SSD, improving upon the M9Pe (which we have reviewed last year). Now, the M10Pe sports a 96-layer 3D-NAND TLC flash and read/write performance of up to 3,200/2,500 MB/s as well as random read/write speeds up to 410,000/320,000…
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Plextor M8V (M8VC) 512GB 2.5-Inch SSD Review
Introduction Plextor is a company that continues to impress us with their drives. We recently saw the M9Pe blast through the benchmarks with impressive results. While the drive was great to test and showed impressive results, it also is out of the budget range for a lot of people. However, Plextor…
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Plextor M8V (M8VG) 512GB M.2 SATA SSD Review
Introduction Plextor is a company that continues to impress us with their drives. We recently saw the M9Pe blast through the benchmarks with impressive results. While the drive was great to test and showed impressive results, it also is out of the budget range for a lot of people. However, Plextor…
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Today is World Backup Day – When Was Your Last Backup?
Today is World Backup Day! March 31st is world backup day. With that in mind, we’ll take a look at the subject, possible devices, software, and common practices. Before we get to the subject at hand, let me remind you all of one thing: A redundant RAID setup is not,…
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Plextor S3G 256GB M.2 SATA3 Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Today we’re looking at Plextor‘s S3G which is the M.2 version of the new S3 drive series. While it is an M.2 module, it is SATA-based and not an NVMe drive. That does make it a little slower in comparison, but it also makes it more affordable. There’s also…
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Plextor M8V Value-Series SSD Launched
Plextor M8V: Budget-Oriented SSDs Plextor first unveiled their new M8V value-oriented solid-state drive line at CES 2018. It succeeds the M7V line and utilizes Silicon Motion’s SM2258 controller with Toshiba 3D TLC 64-layer NAND. It is capable of up to 560MB/s during sequential reads and up to 520MB/s during writes.…
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Plextor Shows S3 Series SATA3 SSDs at CES 2018
Plextor didn’t just bring their M8V drives to CES 2018, they also brought along their new S3 series. The S3 is the successor to the S2 series and it comes in both 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors. When compared to the M8V, the S3 is a better reader while the M8V…
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Plextor Demonstrates M9Pe RGB SSD at CES 2018
Let there be light, in the SSD that is. RGB here, RGB there, RGB everywhere, also at CES 2018‘s Plextor setup. The drive we see here is the brand new M9Pe series, more specific the M9PeY PCIe add-in SSD. We already have the review of this brand new SSD ready…
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Plextor Showcases M8V Series at CES 2018
We visited Plextor at CES 2018 and took a closer look at their new drives. Among them is the M8V which is the successor to the M7V. You might remember those from our M7V 2.5-inch and M.2 reviews. Plextor M8V Series The new M8V series is built with 3D TLC…
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Plextor M9PeY 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD with RGB Review
Introduction It is time to take a look at Plextor’s brand new M9 series and the first entry in the series is the M9Pe. I have the PCIe version, M9PeY, in the lab today which is the PCIe HHHL version of the drive. Besides the PCIe version, there are two…
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Plextor S3C 256GB SATA3 SSD Review
Introduction Lately, we’ve had a look at a lot of NVMe drives and while they’re awesome, they aren’t for everybody. Plextor‘s S3C is a classic SATA3 2.5-inch drive which makes it highly compatible with almost any system. It is also a more budget-oriented choice, allowing you to get away with…
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LiteOn Announces High-Capacity EPX M.2 SSDs up to 1.92TB
LiteOn has a new M.2 SSD line called the EPX series. These drives use NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 host interface to provide fast transfer speeds beyond SATA capabilities. These drives also come in a longer M.2 22110 form factor and not M.2 2280. That is because these drives offer significant…
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Plextor Releases Budget S3 SATA SSDs
Over the past couple of years, PCIe SSDs took over the performance market. While high-performance SATA SSDs still exist, PCIe NVMe drives are the ones leading the charge. Despite the popularity of NVMe SSDs, there remains a sizable SATA market. This is especially true for the masses which have still yet…
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Plextor M8Se 512GB M.2 2280 NVMe Solid State Drive Review
Introduction Plextor had a great comeback with their M8Pe series of NVMe drives, and therefore the company is back with another NVMe drive. The new drive is called the M8Se. Whether the new M8Se is as great a drive as the M8Pe is something we will take a look at today. There are…
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Lite-On Expects NAND Shortage to Hurt SSD Sales
Over the past while, more warning signs have popped up about the impending NAND flash memory shortage. Samsung has delayed the 850 Pro 4 TB and many others in the field have also felt the squeeze. One of the latest to join the ranks of victims is Lite-On, producers of…
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