The best mSATA SSD!

The SSDReview posted this review of the Plextor PX-256M5M mSATA SSD and claimed that it is the fastest mSATA SSD they reviewed and gave it a five star "Editor's Choice". The PCMark Vantage score is 73181, placing it the 5th fastest SSD of any type they have ever tested.:

Plextor M5M mSATA SSD Review (256GB) - The M5M Displays Incredible PCMark Performance | The SSD Review

I have just installed this mSATA drive into my HP Envy DV6t-7300 Quad Edition and it is indeed very fast. I restored the factory Windows 8 image on this mSATA and made it my primary boot drive, with this mSATA 256GB as C: and my original 1TB HDD as D:, startup and shutdown on this machine is mere seconds. It totally transformed the characteristics of this machine.

Just want to know if there are any other PX-256M5M owners out there and what do you think of this drive?

 

I am waiting for the 512GB vers. to come out. Can't wait <3.

 

definitely the best ones I'm having in my raid volume with near 100% seq read/write amplification, and its price stays reasonable as the fastest msata SSD currently, using it in conjunction with a large volume HDD makes the system have the top of the line snappiness and data storage, just need to do regular OS imaging due to the risk of accidental raid volume breaking

 

Not sure if Plextor will have the 512GB version, but Crucial M500 mSATA which uses the same Marvell 88SS9187 flash controller should have a 480GB version. Hope it will be as fast as the Plextor though. It was my original first choice, but Crucial seems to be indefinitely delaying their mSATA m500 SSD, that's why I did some research and bought the Plextor.

 

I am thinking of adding the Plextor 256GB M5 pro 2.5" SSD, which is very similar to their mSATA (same controller), and do a RAID 0 across them, for the ultimate laptop storage. What is your setup?

 

see my signature, for the specs, my 17 inch has 2 msata 6Gb/s slots, a 2.5 inch slot and an optical bay caddy, I originally had a 64k stripe size but swapped to 128k stripe just for the lols(imaging required) after that I partitioned my 1TB hdd with a 400GB partition in which macrium reflect will image the raid volume into it (my complete raid disks have 4 partitions, the system reserved, windows 7, windows 8 and steam partition) and the rest for data storage. then the other 600Gb partition for movies and windows 7/8 drivers and program installers, the 2 TB green drive is for drama series and is serving as my default download destination.

Those being said make sure you use IRST to verify your raid volume before imaging the complete disk, and always have a windows installation USB stick in hand with at least the lan and wireless driver copied to it just incase of a complete system failure. Do not use window's imaging software because sometimes it just won't let you restore the image back onto the volume

Lastly a friendly reminder regarding the RAID 0 volume, do not use a backup, use a system image, and make it regular if within the week/ month new programs are modified(uninstalled or installed), and have the write back cache enabled in IRST before coming back to the forum crying about very low write speed

 

Wow, you have the most impressive mSATA setup. Have you posted any benchmark online for us to ogle over?

 

benchmarks only look as impressive as all other raid drives to be honest, only with margin of 10-15% increased speed except for 4k read QD-1 (which depends on single disk performance since data is read one after the other other than in QD-32 where data are read simultaneously between the raid disk), I bought the drive for good speed, good reliability and efficient warranty services when drive failures occur