Plextor M8Pe 512GB M2 NVMe SSD review
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TheSarge
Is that heatspreader really necessary or is it just for show? I see it gets up to 50 degrees but what does that really mean? Anyone know the operating tolerances for this device?
Marios145
Well...that's early!
EDIT:
Hilbert, what's the CPU usage like at 200k IOPS? Are these "drives" cpu-limited?
Kaarme
Those prices look healthier than Samsung 950's. Samsung has had the whole market at its disposal for too long. Maybe 950 was beating this Plextor in most tests, although not all, but the price difference would win me over, provided this drive otherwise isn't causing troubles and is compatible.
Glottiz
Samsung 960 PRO/EVO are coming out very soon, so if I was in the market for such drive I would wait a bit to see what these upcoming drives offer and how they are priced.
cryohellinc
What is the practical application of such a fast SSD?
rl66
it's usefull AND for the show, in intense use i get over 60°c on my samsung so i put vram rad that were taking dust in drawer now it keep below 50°C. But it is not so cute 🙂 .
rl66
Porn vid? lol
fry178
i sometimes have to questions "your" tips/recommendations.
why would you turn off write cache flushing?
not one of the major ssd makers if checked/used, not even ms/msdn is recommending it (except for some intel drives) unless THE SSD/HDD has a build-in backup battery (to write the data to disc in case of problems).
this has nothing to do with the computer losing power, so a UPS will NOT help..
cryohellinc
very primitive joke.
However seriously, what is the point of it? OS host? Server? Cache maybe?
I have my system on something like 3 year old SSD, 128gb, its fast, at least by my measurements. OS boots in something like 2-3 seconds ( not including post/bios ofc), and during load rest of software loads in 3-5 seconds. So if I had this installed it would boot in 1 second? Dont see much point for that for such a price. So i assume the application is different.
kodachrome
FWIW, I was looking to get all my Steam games on an ultra fast storage mechanism. I looked at NVMe and to get large sizes (2GB+) would have cost a fortune (let alone special cards needed for multiple M2's).
So I went with 6x OCZ Trion 150 $99 480GB SSDs with a cheap used SAS3003 PCIe 3.0 8x controller from Ebay, RAID0:
https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/09/06/SSDBenchmark0429b.png
As I dont have my OS install on this (just games, all cloud) I dont even worry about reliability (its been perfect since install mind you). When I add 2x more 480GB's Ill have over 3TB with a total of 3500MB/s.
Just putting it out there as an alternative for the adventurous!
Han2K
To feature it in your profile or signature.
SSD_PRO
At least this one has MLC like the RD400 from Toshiba. I'm very tired of seeing that "3D NAND" TLC crap.
FranciscoCL
Insane speeds for sure. Please make a video with game loading time when yor setup is finished.
Kaarme
They can put also other types than TLC in 3D. Like Samsung does and probably others as well.
Humanoid_1
Some games will show a good speed up in load times with this Plextor over my Samsung 512GB 850 Pro.
Far Cry 2 (yeah I still play it now and then lol ) has horrendous load times once you have a bunch of saved games for example!
Other games like Star Citizen could also do with more speed it seems to me without checking exactly where its loading bottleneck is, I am sure there are many more games that would benefit from a drive like this one.
Games aside there are plenty of other things that would like more speed, big database work certainly would, I currently load things like this into a RAMDrive to speed them up.
My next system will definitely have something like this in it ^^
- and still more RAM
rl66
i agree about the joke 🙂
you may need it for wathever you want the most fast you get the better it is.
as any product the limit is "how much would you accept to spend for it ???"
in some next future it will be slow an oyster running (or as a 5200r HDD 😛c1:), as always with new stuff.
LimitbreakOr
Faster Load time...
LimitbreakOr
Yeah! I've been playing the Witcher Enhanced lately as i'm trying to pick up the witcher games and having it installed on my Intel 530 240GB, i actually had some hang time when the game was loading new areas. So I decided to install it on my Samsung 950 Pro and it actually turned the hang times into tiny micro pauses that's barely noticeable.
JonasBeckman
Yeah games like Fallout 4 would probably love a 1GB/s+ drive a lot for that reason. 😀
(Need to get a SSD for whenever I build the next system, SATA4 is probably a bit further off still though but NVME together with the M.2 connection looks like a solid combo.)
Pictus
Thank you for one more nice review Hilbert Hagedoorn!
To increase the lifespan and performance of SSD with enough RAM and
an UPS(uninterruptible power supply) we can use a software like PrimoCache(old FancyCache)
with Defer-Write Enabled, PrimoCache is like Samsung RAPID with lots more options/functions...
It is a very interesting software, the explanation https://www.romexsoftware.com/en-us/primo-cache/example-reduce-ssd-wear.html
Here PrimoCache is set as Write Only with Defer-Write enabled and Windows HD policy
without "Enable write caching on the drive", the Windows System caches the reads(no way to disable)
and PrimoCache the writes...
