Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Plexor M5 Pro Extreme.
Now, the most important thing about this drive in comparison to the previous
generation M5 Pro is actually that it
has mostly been tuned. It also includes
NTI's SSD solution suite for Plexor and has a couple of installation keys and
backup now easy installation keys. So, they've included the any drive utilities
that you might need with the drive, which I don't remember being included with the non-extreme edition. There's a
quick installation guide as well as a limited warranty card and of course the
drive itself. Now, a lot of people might not know this, but Plexar is actually a
major SSD manufacturer. They not only make their own SSDs, which are using
Marvel controllers with custom firmwares that include their true speed and true
protect technology. So true speed is basically their way of saying that uh
regardless of sort of you know like the drives use trim but regardless of all of
that the drive is constantly performing maintenance on itself to keep it at or
near its brand new performance. And then true protect basically means uh
unparalleled security and data accuracy. So that includes full drive AES
encryption as well as enterprisegrade features like the burn-in that they do
on this drive. So, they pretty much guarantee with like a very very
intensive burn-in that you're not going to get a DOA unit and that the flash
that they're using is of the highest possible grade. Now, the only thing
that's really changed between here, I'm going to see if I can find it in my uh
we're actually going to be doing a roundup on NCX Tech Tips with this drive
and a number of other high performance drives. So, I'll I'll pick out sort of
some of the drives we're going to look at. Vertex 4, we're probably not going to include. M4, I think, is in our
results. Vector will definitely be compared. There's the original M5 Pro.
So, it looks pretty much identical, but with some tweaks, they have reached a
100,000 IOPS with the new extreme
edition. So, what that means is that should put it right up there with the
Samsung 2840s with the Samsung 840 Pro in terms
of its read performance. So, these are going to be the drives that we're mostly
focused on here because these are the top performing drives in the market. And
the Plex M5 Pro Extreme is priced like a top drive. It also has a 5-year warranty
like the other top drives. So, Neutron GTX, Vector, and uh Samsung's 840 Pro
all have that same 5-year warranty. And in terms of spec, you can see the reads
and rights are sort of very, very impressive, but it comes down to what we
find in the real world um in terms of
the actual performance. So, thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the Plexar M5 Pro Extreme. Don't
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