Introduction

Plextor have had their SSD product line going for a little while now, and are starting to break into the market well. You would have known Plextor mostly for their HDD range, but now they are offering in their most recent range a couple of different SSD’s. One of which is one in the M2S range we have here for you today, the Plextor 128GB. The Plextor has a Marvell controller and also features a 6Gbps interface. Let’s take a look and see how it matched up to another 6Gbs we have had the pleasure of testing, the OCZ Agility 3...

Specifications

Item                                       Drive Status.

Drive Status.

Form Factor                                   2.5" Standard

Interface                                         SATA 6.0Gb/s compatible with SATA 3.0Gb/s and SATA 1.5G/s

Capacity                                          128GB

Seq. Read Speed                         Up to 420 MB/s (@SATA 6Gb/s)

Seq. Write Speed                        Up to 210 MB/s (@SATA 6Gb/s)

Ran. Read Speed                         15000 IOPS (4KB with QD= 32)

Ran. Write Speed                        9000 IOPS (4KB with QD= 32)

DRAM Cache                                 128MB DDR3

Controller                                       Marvell 88SS9174 Flash controller

Power ECC                                      48bit per 2KB

Weight                                            Dynamic Wear leveling

S.M.A.R.T.                                      Support

Password Protection                 Support

Dimensions (W/H/D)                                Support

TRIM Command                           Support

Flash Memory                              MLC type