Product Details
- Brand: Plextor
- Model: PX-128M2S-02
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .50 pounds
Features
- Supports SATA 6Gb/s interface - reads and transfers large amount of data quickly in the shortest time possible
- up to 420 MB/s sequential read and 210 MB/s sequential write
- Uses "Marvell 88SS9174" controller chip (currently industry's most advanced control chip) which helps boost read and write performance chip
Product Description
Plextor's Solid State Drive, is one of the first to support the super fast SATA 6Gb/s interface. Engineered for top performance, this SSD is ideal for power users, gamers, system integrators, or anyone with high demand for efficiency and fast performance.
Customer Reviews
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
By diljs
I've waited a long time for an SSD in my laptop and finally made the switch with this drive, and it has delivered as promised.My Setup:-Early 2008 Macbook running OSX 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). Note this model is only capable of Sata 1.5, so I'm nowhere close to maxing out the speed of the Plextor.-Approximately 100gb of data-Previous drive: 500gb 7200rpm SeagateInstallation Experience:The drive arrived in a classy looking package that was simple to open. No annoying plastic clamshells to cut open, just a small sticker seal to break. Inside was the drive, some setup documentation, and a bootable Acronis True Image disc. The SSD is lighter than my standard hard drive, and is cased in plastic.I chose to use the freeware program Carbon Copy Cloner for copying my boot disk to the SSD. After the copy, I repaired disk permissions and repaired disk through disk utility.Mounting the drive was somewhat of a challenge. It was a very tight fit in my Macbook, being about 1-2mm longer than a normal drive. The SSD eventually slid in, but took a bit of force. It was a challenge to close the case back up over it.The results were noticeable right away. My previous boot time to login screen was about 90 seconds, my new boot time with this SSD: 25 seconds! That's a huge improvement, and I would definitely recommend making the change to this SSD.
6 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
By Strohmian
##### PEDIGREE #####Plextor is a well-known manufacturer of fine optical drives, but a relatively new guy in the SSD world. Like most others in that still- lucrative market, they don't make any parts of this "drive" themselves, but source them from other manufacturers and just concentrate on the firmware.##### DRIVE ARCHITECTURE #####Going over the specs, there are two things that stand out to me:1) Use of a Marvel memory controller. I'm not sure I'd call this "the most advanced" anymore, as the Sandforce controllers get more attention in the enthusiast space, but considering that Intel uses the same chip with their latest SSDs, I'd say Plextor finds itself in decent company.2) Use of 128K RAM as a cache in "write-back" mode, meaning absorbing the writes without persisting them to the flash storage immediately. This reduces wear on the cells and increases speed; but may corrupt data if power was cut. Perhaps with battery-backed-up laptops so prevalent these days, that is not a big concern to most people. I'm a bit skeptic on this one, but again, Intel does the same thing.##### WINDOWS MIGRATION #####An SSD makes the most sense as a system drive, and if you bought it as an upgrade for an existing PC, you may want to migrate your existing windows partition so not to lose the license and/or having to reinstall every single app. Thankfully, Plextor knows this, and includes a copy of Acronis Drive Image. It took me a while to get this to work: first, the Acronis license key was invalid for some reason so it took 2 emails to get a new one (same day though; really not bad, guys!). Second, the boot DVD that the software made seemed to hang until I tried an old PS/2 mouse instead of my Microsoft wireless mouse. After these two obstacles, it was smooth sailing: backup c:\ to external drive, unplug old system drive, snap in SSD instead, restore image to new drive. And all this worked at USB 3.0 speeds, too!The WinXP OEM that I migrated came up without a complaint and passed its license check, as did my handful of other programs (Steam, Bibble, Magix, etc). Admittedly, it's not the best idea to use Win XP with an SSD, as it lacks the essential "Trim" command and would happily run a (pointless and destructive) defrag on the SSD. If you use that OS anyway (as I do), it's a good idea to leave plenty of free space.##### SPEED TESTS #####400 MB/sec, oh my! Marketing numbers are always so impressive, but: are they accurate, and if so, do they apply to me? To answer this, I've measured speed two ways, and made a few before/after comparisons from my upgraded PC.- TEST 1: HD bench read speed- RESULT: constant 210MB/sec over the entire range. Less than 1ms access time.- TEST 2: Filecopy of approx 1.5 GB worth of large pictures from/to RAMdisk- RESULT: Writing to disk happens at 149 MB/sec, reading at 103MB/sec.Interpretation: The below- spec read speed in TEST 1 was to be expected. My mainboard only has SATA-II connections, so the interface limits the throughput. The even lower filecopy speed surprised me though, especially the fact that write is faster than read. It is possible that the drive is not optimized for large files (that would make sense for a system drive) or that my setup is missing a key element. A bit of googling suggests that for optimal speed, one needs to have SATA-III, SandyBridge (the newest 2011 Intel chipset on the motherboard), and activate advanced mode in the Bios.- COMPARISON 1: Time from when the "loading..." appears to when I can use the Firefox browser.- RESULT: Before 80 secs; after 70 secs.- COMPARISON 2 Thumbnail 260 Canon RAW pics in DPP software- RESULT: Before 16 secs; after 8 secs.- COMPARISON 3: Start Eclipse (a software development tool)- RESULT: Before 17 secs; after 7 secs.Interpretation: Again I had a "non surprise"; I expected much faster boot time. Luckily I don't do that a lot (that's what sleep mode is for), and the drive delivered on the other two (more important) before/afters.What is not so easy to see in the numbers, is that this thing breathed some new enthusiasm in my 2.5 year-old PC. It feels much snazzier, program actions that involve files easily go twice as fast or more. It also has no more hiccups as it had when the OS had to spin up the drive simply to display a file dialog. And some things are now near- instant, such as clearing the browser cache, which before took a few seconds.##### VERDICT #####This is probably not a drive for the PC modder who demands the bleeding edge for his game rig. But it appears to be a solid drive with no kinks and decent performance, one that can revive a 2 or 3-year old PC at a price slightly lower than many others in the same category. I really wanted to see more than 100 MB/sec read speed, so I'm giving only 4 stars but still a "thumbs up".
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
By Troy
After reading hundreds of forum posts to build my own PC, I narrowed it down to Plextor, Intel, and Crucial for the SSD brand. It seems their reliability is about the same. This drive has been great. I use it as a boot drive and a 2TB HDD as main storage. Couldn't be happier with the speeds... Everything is SNAPPY!Highly Recommended!
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