Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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Welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Plexor M5 Pro Extreme.
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Now, the most important thing about this drive in comparison to the previous
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generation M5 Pro is actually that it
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has mostly been tuned. It also includes
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NTI's SSD solution suite for Plexor and has a couple of installation keys and
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backup now easy installation keys. So, they've included the any drive utilities
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that you might need with the drive, which I don't remember being included with the non-extreme edition. There's a
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quick installation guide as well as a limited warranty card and of course the
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drive itself. Now, a lot of people might not know this, but Plexar is actually a
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major SSD manufacturer. They not only make their own SSDs, which are using
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Marvel controllers with custom firmwares that include their true speed and true
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protect technology. So true speed is basically their way of saying that uh
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regardless of sort of you know like the drives use trim but regardless of all of
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that the drive is constantly performing maintenance on itself to keep it at or
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near its brand new performance. And then true protect basically means uh
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unparalleled security and data accuracy. So that includes full drive AES
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encryption as well as enterprisegrade features like the burn-in that they do
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on this drive. So, they pretty much guarantee with like a very very
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intensive burn-in that you're not going to get a DOA unit and that the flash
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that they're using is of the highest possible grade. Now, the only thing
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that's really changed between here, I'm going to see if I can find it in my uh
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we're actually going to be doing a roundup on NCX Tech Tips with this drive
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and a number of other high performance drives. So, I'll I'll pick out sort of
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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
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results. Vector will definitely be compared. There's the original M5 Pro.
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So, it looks pretty much identical, but with some tweaks, they have reached a
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100,000 IOPS with the new extreme
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edition. So, what that means is that should put it right up there with the
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Samsung 2840s with the Samsung 840 Pro in terms
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of its read performance. So, these are going to be the drives that we're mostly
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focused on here because these are the top performing drives in the market. And
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the Plex M5 Pro Extreme is priced like a top drive. It also has a 5-year warranty
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like the other top drives. So, Neutron GTX, Vector, and uh Samsung's 840 Pro
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all have that same 5-year warranty. And in terms of spec, you can see the reads
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and rights are sort of very, very impressive, but it comes down to what we
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find in the real world um in terms of
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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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