Testseek.com have collected 104 expert reviews of the Plextor M.2 2280 M6e Black Edition PCIe and the average rating is 85%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Plextor M.2 2280 M6e Black Edition PCIe.
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Strong Sequential Performance
Beefy Heatsink On SSD
5Year Warranty
Good sequential performance
IOPS performance at lower queue depths comparable to high end SATA units
Cost/GB is competitive for a PCIe SSD
No driver required - uses the standard Windows Inbox SCSIPort driver
PlexTurbo 2.0 available for previous M6e mo
Excellent Build Quality
Very Good Performance Levels (Read)
Design (For Some)
AES 128/256 Hardware Encryption
Supports TRIM
2.4 Million Hours MTBF
PCIe Solution
PlexTurbo Software
5 Years Warranty
Field-leading speed versus conventional (or SATA-based M.2) SSDs
Five-year warranty
Outperformed current 2.5-inch or M.2 SATA SSDs
Enables an M.2 desktop upgrade without an M.2 slot
Much cheaper than other PCI Express-card SSDs
Such as OCZ's RevoDrive line
Speedy data transfer rates
In excess of the best SATA SSDs
Striking black-and-red look
Free RAM-caching software
Silky smooth operation as a system drive
Outstanding sequential reading and writing performance
Even at very low queue depths
Very good 4K random writing performance
Excellent 4k random reading performance at very low
And very high queue depths
Great all around performance
Faster than standard SATA3 or mSATA SSDs
Encryption onboard
Compatible with every platform tested so far
The editors didn't like
Not Faster Than Last Year's Model
Small File Transfer Speeds Are Modest
PCIe 2.0 x2 link not fully utilized by Marvell controller
Black Edition version priced at a high premium over the base M.2 version
Warranty VOID sticker prevents penalty-free conversion between PCIe and M.2 form factor
Price (For Some)
Write Performance (128GB Model)
Premium cost per gigabyte
No documentation or file-transfer software
No 1TB version
Still a premium cost per gigabyte
No file-transfer software
Expensive
On a per-gigabyte basis
PCIe x4 drives are coming this year
Although 4K random writing performance is very good
The Plextor M6e M.2. SSD is outpaced by many of the SATA SSDs that I have tested.
Priced significantly higher than SATA3 SSDs of similar capacity
It's time to close the review, and I will start with the my only complaint about the drive, this is not the slow write speed of the 128GB, even though I would like to have seen higher speeds, but I'm complaining about the price. If Plextor could only have...
First of all i need to point out that we don't consider 128GB to be enough for most people, not even for just the OS and the software one may need to install and since we also knew that this model would not perform on par with the 256/512G...
Published: 2015-03-17, Author: Chris , review by: technologyx.com
The Plextor M6e Black Edition is a phenomenal storage choice for any enthusiast looking to up the performance in their PC, especially if you are a gamer!...
Until you own a motherboard with an M.2. slot, a product like this will be the next best thing. The sheer performance numbers you get thrown at you are impressive. However as shown, under very hefty workloads we see the performance of this unit drop hard...
Abstract: Last year Plextor released the M6e PCIe SSD, an M.2 form-factor SSD that supports data transfers over 2 PCIe lanes, not just SATA. We're on the cusp of breaking out of the SATA bottleneck that now constrains most SSDs. Unfortunately, very few motherboards...
Strong Sequential Performance, Beefy Heatsink On SSD, 5Year Warranty
Not Faster Than Last Year's Model, Small File Transfer Speeds Are Modest
The Plextor M6e Black Edition -- Find It At Amazon.ComThe Plextor M6e Black Edition hasn't hit store shelved just yet, but we're told pricing will be in-line with the original M6e, which can be found for about $1 per GB ($277 for the 256GB drive). If it d...
Good sequential performance, IOPS performance at lower queue depths comparable to high end SATA units, Cost/GB is competitive for a PCIe SSD, No driver required - uses the standard Windows Inbox SCSIPort driver, PlexTurbo 2.0 available for previous M6e mo
PCIe 2.0 x2 link not fully utilized by Marvell controller, Black Edition version priced at a high premium over the base M.2 version, Warranty VOID sticker prevents penalty-free conversion between PCIe and M.2 form factor
PROS:Good sequential performanceIOPS performance at lower queue depths comparable to high end SATA unitsCost/GB is competitive for a PCIe SSDNo driver required - uses the standard Windows Inbox SCSIPort driverPlexTurbo 2.0 available for previous M6e model...
Speedy data transfer rates, in excess of the best SATA SSDs, Striking black-and-red look, Free RAM-caching software
Expensive, on a per-gigabyte basis, PCIe x4 drives are coming this year
A jazzed-up version of a 2014 favorite, the Black Edition is a more polished M6e, and blazingly fast, even if the price per gigabyte is a touch high by 2015 standards. Read More…...
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Published: 2015-01-27, Author: Sean , review by: thessdreview.com
The M6e Black Edition is Plextor's latest and revision of the M6e. It boasts a new blacked out design that should prove to attract gamers as well as improved performance over the standard version. Prices are a bit high and availability will be low as wel...
The Plextor M6e Black Edition PCIe SSD looks like an entirely drive, but it's basically just a dressed up Plextor M6e that was introduced exactly one year ago. There have been no hardware changes on the M6e Black Edition other than the addition of a heats...
