** SATA3 SSD's, FORGET THEM!! M2/PCI-E IS HERE!! **

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SSD's are about to get upto a 50% speed boost and people will be happy to hear its not via raiding them, but down to a new interface, known as M2 which will be present on the new Intel chipset mainboards coming May/June time. Plextor are allowing you to use this new faster technology also in older mainboards by placing the M2 SSD onto a PCI-E card. The performance is very impressive considering these are not raided SSD's like the PCI-E varients normally are.

Also the prices are very good for PCI-E SSD's, the lowest we've seen yet:-



Plextor M6e M.2 PCI-E 128GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail @ £139.99 inc VAT

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Plextor's latest M2/PCI-E SSD's allow you to utilise the performance advantage of M2 without having to upgrade your mainboard as these M2's SSD's are supplied and pre-installed to a PCI-E controller card. These drives offer performance that is unbeatable by any current SATA3 drive on the market. So if you want the fastest single SSD option on the market than look no further than these Plextor M6e drives.

Specification:-
- Interface: M2/PCI-E, exceeds SATA3 limitations with upto 1.5x performance boost.
- Duo BIOS Support: Set as boot device under UEFI BIOS or the legacy BIOS
- Compatibility: AHCI Support, no drivers needed.
- Read Speed: 770MB/s
- Write Speed: 335MB/s
- Read IOPS: 96,000
- Write IOPS: 83,000
- Controller: Server Grade Marvell PCI-e Control Chip (88SS9183)
- Warranty: 5yr


Only £139.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW















Plextor M6e M.2 PCI-E 256GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail @ £199.99 inc VAT

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Plextor's latest M2/PCI-E SSD's allow you to utilise the performance advantage of M2 without having to upgrade your mainboard as these M2's SSD's are supplied and pre-installed to a PCI-E controller card. These drives offer performance that is unbeatable by any current SATA3 drive on the market. So if you want the fastest single SSD option on the market than look no further than these Plextor M6e drives.


Specification:-
- Interface: M2/PCI-E, exceeds SATA3 limitations with upto 1.5x performance boost.
- Duo BIOS Support: Set as boot device under UEFI BIOS or the legacy BIOS
- Compatibility: AHCI Support, no drivers needed.
- Read Speed: 770MB/s
- Write Speed: 580MB/s
- Read IOPS: 105,000
- Write IOPS: 100,000
- Controller: Server Grade Marvell PCI-e Control Chip (88SS9183)
- Warranty: 5yr


Only £199.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW















Plextor M6e M.2 PCI-E 512GB Solid State Hard Drive - Retail @ £389.99 inc VAT

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Plextor's latest M2/PCI-E SSD's allow you to utilise the performance advantage of M2 without having to upgrade your mainboard as these M2's SSD's are supplied and pre-installed to a PCI-E controller card. These drives offer performance that is unbeatable by any current SATA3 drive on the market. So if you want the fastest single SSD option on the market than look no further than these Plextor M6e drives.


Specification:-
- Interface: M2/PCI-E, exceeds SATA3 limitations with upto 1.5x performance boost.
- Duo BIOS Support: Set as boot device under UEFI BIOS or the legacy BIOS
- Compatibility: AHCI Support, no drivers needed.
- Read Speed: 770MB/s
- Write Speed: 625MB/s
- Read IOPS: 105,000
- Write IOPS: 100,000
- Controller: Server Grade Marvell PCI-e Control Chip (88SS9183)
- Warranty: 5yr


Only £389.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW








For the performance and warranty the pricing is not so bad. :)
 
Nice to see :) good option if you don't want to upgrade to the newer chipset while still offering m2/e-sata like performance.

If you compare these against things like the asus raidr or the ocz revodrives which were more money and had all sorts of reliability issues they seem good value and five year warranties are great.

I think generally this year will see some exciting increases in storage speeds with the new interfaces and the prices have certainly been moving down a long way from were ssds started.
 
That's actually really appealing. The only thing that concerns me is space on my board. What with gpus, sound cards etc, how do I go about expanding my storage without having to replace existing drives?

Will we start seeing a new use for the H81 BTC mining boards because of their awesome "storage" pci-e slots? :p
 
They could have made the PCB a lot smaller and nicer looking/coloured.

How do these compare to the current best from Samsung and Intel, etc?
 
The prices of these are only going to drop further as this will become the native interface in the not to distant future.

Performance will also increase. They are a nice addition to the range but as the first of their kind there is room for improvement.
 
As already stated, shame the PCB isnt say black, but very nice looking stats if the performance reviews hold up.

Can you can remove the M.2 SSD from the card for use with an M.2 enabled motherboard, looks like a simple plastic connection slot on the card from the pictures? Will that invalidate the entire warranty?
 
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Alexrose1uk said:
As already stated, shame the PCB isnt say black, but very nice looking stats if the performance reviews hold up.

Can you can remove the M.2 SSD from the card for use with an M.2 enabled motherboard, looks like a simple plastic connection slot on the card from the pictures? Will that invalidate the entire warranty?
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Listen to the review at around 1min mark he does explain what your asking:p
 
I always think its crazy when they release a new connection type (sata 2-sata3) and do something completely retarded like double the speed. which the first generation at S3 drives maxed immediately. It should always be a 10x increase.

These are cool but I'm not sure how i feel about additional PCI cards, visually and space wise. It limits GPU options, or GPUs limit SSDs.
 
I have a Samsung XP941 M2 PCIE ssd in my laptop its pretty snappy. I only have the 128Gb though so like the version here I think its a bit slower than the larger ones especially on write speed

I think the 512gb versions were hit 1100/900 for seq from reviews though
 
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