Plextor announces SATA-3 M6 series and PCIe M.2 SSDs

Plextor showcases two new SSDs at Computex, the M6 and M.2 series. The company issued press releases before in which it stated  that it would announce 1y nm NAND based drives during Computex. While the company is showcasing the M6 drives at the exibition, it remains unclear what kind of NAND memory it's using and if these are the announced drives.

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We do know that the M6 drives are based on the Marvell 88SS9187 controller and available in capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB. The drives likely come with Plextor's own firmware and seem to be mainly a revision of the Plextor M5 PRO drives.

Like the M5 Pro drives, also the M6 SSDs make use of a DRAM cache. Depending on the capacities, this is either 256, 512 or 768 MB.  Performance wise you'll get sequential reads of up to 540 MB/s, writes of 470 MB/s and read IOPS are at 100,000  and 80,000 IOPS for writes. These specifications are also similar to those of the M5 Pro series.

The company also showed their M.2 PCIe SSDs. Like the M6 these are available in capacities of 128 GB, 256 GB and 512 GB and come with DRAM caches of 256 MB, 512 MB and 1 GB respectively.  Maximum specified sequential reads are at 780 MB/s, writes at 550 MB/s and it can do 100,000 IOPS random reads and 85,000 IOPS random writes.

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Unfortunately it's unclear when the drives become available and at what price.

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