Plextor has knocked another one out of the park with its new M3 Pro Series SSD. Building on the success of the M3 Series, this ultra-slim drive combines Marvell's 88SS9174 controller with Toshiba's 24nm Toggle Mode NAND flash to deliver some of the best all around performance we've seen. Thanks to a highly optimized firmware, the PX-256M3P was able to read at speeds as high as 509 MB/s and writing at speeds in excess of 420 MB/s. These numbers still aren't as high as what we've seen with some of the newer SandForce-based drives like the SanDisk Extreme. However, the M3 Pro performs equally well with compressible and incompressible data and, thanks to technologies like Instant Restore, Global Wear Leveling and Bad Block Management, is able to sustain these speeds, even after intensive use.



Link: CDRLabs