Plextor M2S SSDs

Cosimo · 7 Feb 2011 at 16:01

Plextor announces the new M2S series of SSD drives. These will have a SATA III interface for read speeds up to 480MB/s, a 128MB DDR3 cache and will be in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB sizes.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/02/07/plextor-announces-the-m2s-line-of-sata-iii-packing-480mb-s-ssds/

KIA · 8 Sep 2011 at 17:14

Anyone tried an M2S?

nshire · 8 Sep 2011 at 17:28

Uses same sort of marvel chipset that m4 (different revision) but uses identical marvel chipset to intel 510.

Not tried it but it should be good.

Helios1234 · 8 Sep 2011 at 21:26

It seems to be going for quite cheap...

Davefran · 9 Sep 2011 at 03:09

Just been reading about these after getting an e-mail of prices. Was going to start a thread and spotted this one.

Plextor SSD drives now available at the best prices in the UK!
64GB £59.99
128GB £109.99
256GB £249.99

Hopefully OCUK will be getting them in soon

Hagar · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:38

Someone needs to really start driving down prices on SSD. Credit to Plextor if they are taking a lead on this. Plextor is a highly rated drive supplier I will follow with interest.

Mr.V · 9 Sep 2011 at 12:34

Has anyone got one of these? im tempted by the 128gig version currently on offer for £110 thats less than £1 per gig. the write speeds are faster than a crucial M4 but the read speeds are nowhere as quick as the crucial but theres a huge price difference.

Davefran · 9 Sep 2011 at 12:44

Mr.V said:
Has anyone got one of these? im tempted by the 128gig version currently on offer for £110 thats less than £1 per gig. the write speeds are faster than a crucial M4 but the read speeds are nowhere as quick as the crucial but theres a huge price difference.

M4 were only 415MB/s before the firmware update(550MB/s after), Plextor is 480MB/s, maybe they will bring out an update too (especially as it's a very similar controller)

Mr.V · 9 Sep 2011 at 14:05

Davefran said:
M4 were only 415MB/s before the firmware update(550MB/s after), Plextor is 480MB/s, maybe they will bring out an update too (especially as it's a very similar controller)

That's an interesting point you make Dave, I wonder if plextor will release an update.

Just need to find a way of getting one without the mrs finding out lol, she found the invoices for the asrock xtreme7, 16gigs of ram n the the i7 2600k

Azuse05 · 9 Sep 2011 at 15:25

Tbh I should point out those pries quoted are an offer of something like 10pc, although you can pick up a 128GB drive for £120 from a couple large retailers they're only that price because they're clearing them, they've been around for quite a while. Also the m4 has 265MB DRAM cache which gives it it's speed, these drive only have 128MB like the old C300 drives did.

For the sake of £15 I'm not sure I'd take the gamble over a m4 although it is nice to finally see ssds coming down in price.

xtremedetailz · 9 Sep 2011 at 15:29

Azuse05 said:
Tbh I should point out those pries quoted are an offer of something like 10pc, although you can pick up a 128GB drive for £120 from a couple large retailers they're only that price because they're clearing them, they've been around for quite a while. Also the m4 has 265MB DRAM cache which gives it it's speed, these drive only have 128MB like the old C300 drives did.

For the sake of £15 I'm not sure I'd take the gamble over a m4 although it is nice to finally see ssds coming down in price.

The price quoted up there are from an OcUK competitor.

And they are based on single units not 10pc.

Mr.V · 9 Sep 2011 at 15:53

Azuse05 said:
Tbh I should point out those pries quoted are an offer of something like 10pc, although you can pick up a 128GB drive for £120 from a couple large retailers they're only that price because they're clearing them, they've been around for quite a while. Also the m4 has 265MB DRAM cache which gives it it's speed, these drive only have 128MB like the old C300 drives did.

For the sake of £15 I'm not sure I'd take the gamble over a m4 although it is nice to finally see ssds coming down in price.

single price from a competitor, the M4s are a nice drive but are MLC drives. im hoping to get a cheapy one and upgrade later to a SLC based drive later.

Azuse05 · 9 Sep 2011 at 16:41

All the mlc drive are cheap, that's the point

Besides there's few slc drives because only enterprise will pay the prices. Good write algorithms can nullify mlcs drawbacks, excluding wear, but 25nm drive will last 10+ years and there's no logical reason for getting and slc over an mlc purely on reliability because hd always fail in the end.

The best form of reliability you can get in storage is redundancy i.e. backups and frankly, for the price difference between a 64GB M4 and 64GB X25-E you could backup to 10 data centres, 10 external drive a a couple nas

Mr.V · 9 Sep 2011 at 17:13

Azuse05 said:
All the mlc drive are cheap, that's the point Besides there's few slc drives because only enterprise will pay the prices. Good write algorithms can nullify mlcs drawbacks, excluding wear, but 25nm drive will last 10+ years and there's no logical reason for getting and slc over an mlc purely on reliability because hd always fail in the end.

The best form of reliability you can get in storage is redundancy i.e. backups and frankly, for the price difference between a 64GB M4 and 64GB X25-E you could backup to 10 data centres, 10 external drive a a couple nas

thanks for the info i mustve got my wires crossed i was under the impression the patriot wildfires where SLC based drives which what i intend to get at a later stage.

sunama · 10 Sep 2011 at 18:12

SLC drives are all very expensive.
Even Intels 311 Larson Creek 20GB drive (SLC), is selling for around £90.

Mr.V · 10 Sep 2011 at 18:58

sunama said:
SLC drives are all very expensive.
Even Intels 311 Larson Creek 20GB drive (SLC), is selling for around £90.

wow! might grab the plextor or the crucial M4 with all the new rave reviews its getting with the firmware 0009 update