Plextor 2.5 inch M5S Series SATA600

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Plextor 2.5 inch M5S Series SATA600
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Although mechanical drives continue to offer the best bang for your buck as far as storage is concerned, there is no denying that Solid State Drives are best when it comes to performance. It will only be a matter of time before most computers will have...

By tbreak.ae on
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Plextor's M5S 128GB SSD hits our benchmarking tables today, promising reliability and good value. How does the legendary ODD manufacturer fares in the SSD market?Plextor M5SMost enthusiasts would remember Plextor from the days when optical disk drive...

By VR-Zone on
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Slow in all but one of our tests and with a price higher than its rivals. Better SSDs are...

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Unless you're sporting really old hardware, an SSD is the best sure-fire way to boost the performance of your desktop or laptop computer. There is so much choice now it's difficult to know whether there is a significant difference between various SSDs...

By uk.hardware.info on

In June, 2012 we published a large group test of SSDs with capacities of 120/128 GB and 240/256 GB . Those are still the most popular sizes, judging from what people search for on Hardware.Info. The world of SSDs didn't stand still, and since then a...

By uk.hardware.info on

It appears that the Xtreme firmware update for the Plextor M5 Pro is little more than a marketing ploy. While Plextor does indeed get in the vicinity of 100.000 4k read Iops, the SSD is not much faster in any of the other benchmarks. In some tests it's...

By uk.hardware.info on

The M5S is a very good drive and I recommend it heartily for those of you working with mostly compressed data. The M5S is somewhat overpriced at the moment but we expect to see the price fall significantly very soon. Reliability is probably an area...

By Real World Labs on

Plextor's optical drives were always known for their quality. Now, the company is trying to carry that reputation over to SSDs. Its M5S is actually a fourth-generation offering based on Marvell's controller technology. But Plextor adds its own spin,...

By Tom's Hardware UK on

The Plextor M5S shows us that there's still a little more upside available to the Marvell 9174, which is pretty impressive given its time on market. While the main change in the M5S from the M3S (note some Asian companies prefer not to use the...

By StorageReview on

Plextor launched the M5S SSD about two weeks ago and we were among the first to review it. Plextor did not have a specific release date at the time of our review, with their press release saying mid-July (which obviously did not happen). Plextor now...

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