Clash of the Titans - Fastest SSD in the world!?

[Andrew Moore]

Hello

OcUK has access to a brand new drive by Plextor, the M5 Pro. Please ignore the name ofd the drive in the screen, Liteon is part of the same company and this drive is an ES so still has room to play.

Take a look below at these screens. On the left in CrystalDiskMark and ATTO we have Drive E - Vertex 4 512GB and on the right we have the M5 Pro. In AS SSD the drive to the left is the M5 Pro (drive Z) and the drive to the right (drive E) is the Vertex 4.

The drives have been tested with 174GB of DATA contained on the drive to replicate true speed figures rather than that of a bare drive and the numbers are astounding!

AS SSD MB/s

AS SSD IOPS

ATTO

CrystalDiskMark

As you can see from the results, the M5 Pro is a faster drive when reading and in many cases writing too. The IOPs performance when reading small files blows the Vertex 4 out of the water yet the true strength can be seen fully in ATTO. Read speeds and write speeds across the spectrum are just far more unified and show much stronger overall performance. To get similar read speeds on the small files from 0.5 to 16MB you would need 2 Vertex 4 drives which is just crazy! Please bear in mind that synthetic benchmarks although good for painting a picture of drive performance cannot produce it accurately. In real world tests the M5 Pro has been found in most cases to be the fastest single SSD on the market and with that performance behind it is sure to be a winner. For an ES drive this M5 Pro is looking to be an absolute beast and certainly a force to be reckoned with! Keep your eyes peeled as this drive will be available to order later on this month!

Please keep checking back as we will have the Samsung 840 Pro very soon so that we can find out what is truly the best drive that money can buy!

 

[-Mike-]

Genuinely interested in the samsung My 830 has been excellent so far

 

[Nelly]

Genuinely interested in the samsung My 830 has been excellent so far

Same here the Samsung 830 has been the best upgrades I've done in the last few years, I bought mine back in April when prices were much higher, even with the Samsung cashback deal going on.

I woudn't mind one of the Samsung 840 Pro's, 5 year warranty is nice. I think these new Plextor M5 Pro come with 5 year warranty too. Will be interested to see how the new Intel 525 SSD's do well against these.

Good review here of the Plextor M5 Pro 256GB >> http://www.anandtech.com/show/6153/plextor-m5-pro-256gb-review

 

[Helios1234]

Same here the Samsung 830 has been the best upgrades I've done in the last few years, I bought mine back in April when prices were much higher, even with the Samsung cashback deal going on.

I woudn't mind one of the Samsung 840 Pro's, 5 year warranty is nice. I think these new Plextor M5 Pro come with 5 year warranty too. Will be interested to see how the new Intel 525 SSD's do well against these.

Good review here of the Plextor M5 Pro 256GB >> [URL="http://www.anandtech.com/show/6153/plextor-m5-pro-256gb-review"]http://www.anandtech.com/show/6153/plextor-m5-pro-256gb-review[/URL]

I remember reading that review and they certainly thought highly of it but the Samsung 840 Pro they reviewed was even better if I remember correctly.

 

[Nelly]

I remember reading that review and they certainly thought highly of it but the Samsung 840 Pro they reviewed was even better if I remember correctly.

Just been reading up on Intel's Taylorsville - new SSD controller, first in 5 years - Enterprise SSD DC S3700 (200GB) >> http://www.anandtech.com/show/6433/intel-ssd-dc-s3700-200gb-review

Geeky Video Link >> http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/121113_sc12/archive/archive.htm

Yeah, looks like the Samsung 840 Pro got it wrapped up at the moment, I wonder what Crucial has got up it's Micron sleeves, they usually just launch something out of the blue...

Intel 525 SSD's should be out very soon, apparently just a firmware update on the 520's...?

 

[DarrenM343]

Is it?
On the face of it this Sony looks faster (from a SonyZ Laptop).
Before anyone shouts "yeah bit it's raid", according to Sony it is however just a single drive. The laptop is so thin they couldn't fit two in there anyway.

 

[eddyr]

Before anyone shouts "yeah bit it's raid", according to Sony it is however just a single drive. The laptop is so thin they couldn't fit two in there anyway.

That'll be their marketing department probably stuggling to work out fact from their own fiction.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Is it?
On the face of it this Sony looks faster (from a SonyZ Laptop).
Before anyone shouts "yeah bit it's raid", according to Sony it is however just a single drive. The laptop is so thin they couldn't fit two in there anyway.

4K is where it matters to which it is slower which is why the write speed of "282" on your drive is so poor compared to both the others.

Max speeds is great but whats the point if everything is dragging its feet?

Also, TYhat is a custom "katana" style mobile pci-e type SSD that runs 2 controllers with the NAND. The same as a Revodrive is a single SSD its also in RAID just like this.

For a laptop, very fast. Compared to a PC, 2 gens old where it matters, uber quick where it doesnt. Im by no means saying its slow but in the grand scheme of things even reading 1200points overall the drive is slower than both the above. Why? Because it only has 1200points due to its crazy sequential speeds that the drive will never be able to achieve unless the conditions are exactly perfect.

There are none Raid versions of this drive that run similar to an M4. They will only score perhaps 700points is AS SSD however again where it matters (4K) they run 30% or more faster.

At the end of the day its a marketing ploy to get people to buy the laptop. A little like the awful adverts Apple have for the iPad Mini.