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    Plextor M2P first impressions

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by rouse, Nov 9, 2011.

  1. rouse

    rouse Notebook Geek

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    i just received my first ssd and did a clean install of windows 7 home premium on my sager 8170. after waiting around for the samsung 830, i decided in the end on the new plextor 128gb m2p since it was (last week anyways) about $30 cheaper than the comparable samsung 830 at newegg (by the way, it shipped with an OEM Acronis, which was a bummer since i fell for a combo deal with the retail version of Acronis). anyways, just did a crystal disk mark on it, and thought others might be interested (although there are at least a couple of reviews on it, e.g.,
    Plextor PX-M2P SSD Review (256GB) | StorageReview.com
    and one in dutch that phil gave a link to in another thread.). not sure if i should be impressed with the benchmark results or not. not sure if it can be further tweaked (i did no tweaks for the results shown) for improvements.

    Edit: Boot time from Event Viewer ranges from 16 to 19 secs.
     

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  2. Phil

    Phil Retired

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    Performance looks fine. Enjoy.

    PS. If you want to do more benchmarking consider using 3x 100MB, as 5x 1000 MB causes more wear.
     
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    gull_s_777 Notebook Consultant

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    WOW strong sequential writes for a 128gb drive.........
    have fun....
     
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  4. rouse

    rouse Notebook Geek

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    just did a run with anvil storage for those interested. in between, i installed the latest intel rapid storage driver, but i don't think it made any significant impact; the results seem to be comparable with those of the crystal mark run.

    edited to enlarge the image before uploading so that that details of write results can be seen.
     

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  5. maximinimaus

    maximinimaus Notebook Evangelist

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    Thx for the screenie.
    You should enlarge the window of Anvil Benchmark before taking the screenshot to make the detailed write scores visible.
     
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