Plextor unveils its latest M9Pe Extreme - Ultra Hi-Speed NVMe SSD
Plextor announced today it will showcase the new M9Pe Extreme delivering sequential read/write speeds of up to 6500/5000 MB/s.
The next-generation M9Pe Extreme combines technologically advanced components and the Marvell 88NR2241 intelligent NVMe switch along with PLEXTOR exclusive technologies to deliver high level performance required by prosumers, professional PC gamers and other application-intensive users such as animation editors, audio-visual drafting personnel, and film-making companies. Not only does M9Pe Extreme provide greatly enhanced data transmission performance, it also offers RAID functionalities for data redundancy and performance improvements making it a great choice for office or workspace environments.
Fay Ho, Senior Director for Brand Division, LITE-ON Technology Corporation, said, "Continuing Plextor's outstanding capability in the high-speed storage devices, the M9Pe Extreme, as the name states, delivers unprecedented extreme high-speed performance, making a new record in consumer SSD read/write speeds. With high quality components and excellent performance boosting technologies, PC gaming experience, for one, will never be the same."
Nigel Alvares, vice president of SSD and Data Center Storage Solutions at Marvell, said, “Marvell and LITE-ON have a longstanding relationship of SSD collaborations and we’re excited to expand it by enabling their innovative M9Pe Extreme SSD with our 88NR2241, the industry’s first NVMe switch. Our intelligent NVMe switch technology combined with Plextor's storage expertise delivers a groundbreaking solution to meet the increasing storage demands of emerging high-performance client and edge applications.”
The key to the performance breakthrough lies in Plextor's solid and unique development capabilities and the adoption of the Marvell intelligent NVMe switch and industry-leading components. The combination of Plextor's latest improvements in multiple error-detection and firmware technologies comprehensively reinforces storage reliability, read/write quality, and long-term service life of its SSDs.
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RAID (which this pretty much seems to be) does not exactly help Q1T1 performance.
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Only ~40 MB/s 4k random read QD=1....
Pleace try again.
Yep, this will only be good for operations that need blazing fast sequential speed.
Someone did 4 way VROC 0 with Optane and got way better results (just likely way more expensive):
https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?97190-VROC-Bootable-Raid-with-Intel-900p-when-will-this-be-supported-in-the-BIOS/page2#post684383
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Hmm, not impressed if my shitty SSD can do this

@4kb, Q32 more than half of that super expensive plextor.
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Only ~40 MB/s 4k random read QD=1....
Pleace try again.