Plextor M8V Plus is a new SSD from the Taiwanese manufacturer specializing in optical disks and flash storage. They are aimed at the mass market but no prices have been announced yet, although, they should be quite economical.
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There are a lot of SSD models on the market and almost every week a new model arrives. Plextor M8V Plus is another one of them and it comes as an upgrade of the original 2018 series. It is based on KIOXIA’s 96-layer TLC NAND memory which replaces Toshiba’s 64-layer chips and is available in 2.5-inch and M.2 formats. Both are connected to the SATA interface.
The driver is a Silicon Motion SM2258 updated to its latest revision and is compatible with Plextor’s Plex Compress technology. This function uses controller downtime to compress files that have not been accessed for more than 30 days. The feature is essentially an SLC cache that has been increased in number from the last version.
As we said, these SSDs use the SATA-III interface and they offer data transfer performance of up to 560-520MB/s in sequential read/write and up to 90,000 IOPS in 4K random read/write.
It will be available in three options: 256GB, 512GB and 1TB storage capacities. The company classifies them according to their degree of resistance, up to 560TBW (minimum of TBs written) in the higher capacity version. All of them will have three years of warranty.
No prices have been announced, but because of its specs, target market, the enormous competition in SSD and the high inventory of NAND flash memory that is reducing costs for manufacturers, they should be very economical.
