Plextor M7e M.2 PCIe Gen 2x4 Performance caught on photo

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/17/2015 08:08 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

So yesterday I was at CeBIT and plextor was demoing their upcoming Plextor M7e M.2 PCIe SSD already. Blazing fast ! the M7e M.2 is a small M.2. device that plugs into a compatible motherboard, and the numbers are amazing compared to a regular SATA3 SSD, how does 1000 MB/sec + sound ?

This next generation solid state drive is using a PCIe Gen 2.0 x4 interface in combo with a Marvell 88SS9293 controller and the Toshiba A19 MLC NAND flash.

These new generation M.2 devices will be fast alright. Talking with Plextor we confirmed that the PCB in the end will be colors black. The product will become available in 128, 256 , 512 and even one TB versions (which you see on the photo). The 1TB version however are a notch longer alright due to the space need for the NAND ICs.

Have a peek:

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#5030448 Posted on: 03/17/2015 04:47 PM

not to mention, look where the slot is placed on a lot of motherboards. gpu fans exhausting on them all day cant be good.

This. But nobody cares to do a temp test without a dedicated GPU apparently.

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#5030499 Posted on: 03/17/2015 06:31 PM

Why doesn't anyone go ham and make a PCIE 3.0 x16 SSD?

It would be something like 10GB/s seq read 8GB/s seq write judging by the speed of this M7e

Fusion IO makes some of the fastest SSDs out there (enterprise grade of course, they are outrageously expensive) and theirs work on x8 slots. I do not believe we have chips that can max out x16.

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