The Plextor M6V (256GB) SSD Review
by Billy Tallis on October 12, 2015 8:00 AM ESTAnandTech Storage Bench - The Destroyer
The Destroyer is an extremely long test replicating the access patterns of heavy desktop usage. A detailed breakdown can be found in this review. Like real-world usage and unlike our Iometer tests, the drives do get the occasional break that allows for some background garbage collection and flushing caches, but those idle times are limited to 25ms so that it doesn't take all week to run the test.
We quantify performance on this test by reporting the drive's average data throughput, a few data points about its latency, and the total energy used by the drive over the course of the test.
The M6V falls in the middle of the pack for its capacity class, and again its performance is a little behind its sibling with the same controller.
The middling to poor latency results echo the poor write performance consistency, but these results are nothing too concerning for a client drive designed for a typical consumer workload.
The SM2246EN continues to deliver impressive power efficiency, though again the BX100 beats the M6V.
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StrangerGuy - Monday, October 12, 2015 - link
Yet another new SSD article on AT that ends up showing how it gets destroyed by Samsung in overall specs/price.franz899 - Monday, October 12, 2015 - link
Actually the Crucial BX100 is a better choice looking at the scores.medi03 - Monday, October 12, 2015 - link
Nope, not to note it isn't even present on many screens and MX200 is a different product.SmokingCrop - Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - link
The BX series is better bang for the buck, you won't notice the speed difference with the popular samsung drives.salimbest83 - Wednesday, October 14, 2015 - link
im shopping for new 240GB+ ssd. looks like BX100 is the way to go rite?Billie Boyd - Friday, November 27, 2015 - link
I rather go with AMD Radeon R7 series. Its one of the highly rated high drives in the market (see http://www.consumerrunner.com/top-10-best-hard-dri... for example)emn13 - Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - link
Assuming this is a low-end drive i.e. cheaper than the 850 pro, it looks like it outperforms the 850 evo mSata pretty much across the board, getting close to crucial's BX100.FriendlyUser - Tuesday, October 13, 2015 - link
As an owner of 2x840 EVO and 2xPlextor, I can tell you the Samsung's bug was a major disappointment. Read performance after months simply sucks and I had to patch the firmware 2-3 times and regularly "manually" freshen the data with the samsung tool. I have way more confidence in the Plextor firmware. Never again Samsung.AnnonymousCoward - Friday, October 16, 2015 - link
...yet another SSD article on AT that focuses on the pointlessness of non-real world benchmarks. Readers will leave this article without having a clue what boot time differences to expect between drives, or any other metric. I've been saying this for years. HardOCP finally caught on. http://tinyurl.com/pvyzmaudj_aris - Monday, October 12, 2015 - link
What is the purpose of reviewing SATA SSD drives? Anyone in the market for a drive should either buy a spinning HDD for storage or a PCIe for speed.