Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

Comparing the results across the board directly between compressible and incompressible data, the difference in performance figures is so little that I would class it as insignificant. For users who are likely to be working with both types of data, this translates to great performance all round from the M5Pro Extreme.