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
Alright, so with testing out of the way let's go ahead and wrap up on this review. As we expected from the advertised specifications, performance is pretty similar to the original Plextor M6e. Sequential performance is without a doubt the star of the show...
Abstract: The Plextor M6e is the first native PCI Express SSD we've been able to get our hands on, so we're excited to finally see what an SSD can do when it's not hobbled by the SATA interface and its 550MB/s bottleneck. Instead of SATA or a 2.5-inch device, this ...
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Published: 2014-09-18, Author: Eric , review by: futurelooks.com
Great all around performance, Faster than standard SATA3 or mSATA SSDs, Encryption onboard, Compatible with every platform tested so far
Priced significantly higher than SATA3 SSDs of similar capacity
Most every SSD, whether standard SATA, mSATA, or PCIE SSD device will all transform the performance of your computer, and turn it in to a more efficient tool for handling large media, apps and data. Not only do our systems boot much faster, but all progra...
Outperformed current 2.5-inch or M.2 SATA SSDs, Enables an M.2 desktop upgrade without an M.2 slot, Five-year warranty, Much cheaper than other PCI Express-card SSDs, such as OCZ's RevoDrive line
Still a premium cost per gigabyte, No file-transfer software, No 1TB version
The M6e M.2 PCIe, an M.2 “stick”-style SSD on a PCI Express card, lets desktop users break through the performance ceiling of 6Gbps SATA on desktop PCs that lack an M.2 slot. Read More…...
Field-leading speed versus conventional (or SATA-based M.2) SSDs, Five-year warranty
Premium cost per gigabyte, No documentation or file-transfer software, No 1TB version
The first M.2 PCI Express SSD we've tested, the M6e M.2 justifies its high cost per gigabyte with blistering speed and a long warranty. The only question is whether you can actually install one. Read More…...
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Published: 2014-08-28, Author: Tom , review by: modders-inc.com
With the release of the Z97 chipset from Intel, the M.2 form factor is gaining a lot more traction. Clearly, M.2 is considerably faster than traditional SATA based SSDs. One thing to note is the M.2 specifies up to four lanes of PCIe to use with M.2 SSD d...
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,
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.
Let us summarise the most important positive and negative points belowPositiveSilky 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...
Alright, so after testing our first M.2 form factor SSD, we've definitely come away with some mixed impressions.In comparison to the SATA drives we've tested today, the Plextor M6e performs very well and easily goes head to head with our SATA based favori...
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Published: 2015-02-10, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
Unlike the previous M6e Black Edition reviews, we now have pricing information from Newegg on these products. The 128GB model we tested today lists at $199.99 at the time of writing. Newegg shows the Black Edition products available for preorder, but the...
Published: 2015-02-07, Author: Chris , review by: tweaktown.com
Although SanDisk tinkered with the idea of bringing a Marvell 88SS9183 product to market (the A110), the company never brought the product to the market through normal channels. Samsung's XP941 was brought to market through back door channels, and is not...
