M5S

Plextor launched the M5S SSD about two weeks ago and we were among the first to review it. Plextor did not have a specific release date at the time of our review, with their press release saying mid-July (which obviously did not happen). Plextor now tells us that the M5S is available for pre-order at its own online store, with drives shipping on August 10th. Along with pre-order details come updated prices. In our review we only had MSRPs to go on. Below is an updated M5S specification table including current pre-order prices: Plextor M5S Specifications Model PX-64M5S PX-128M5S PX-256M5S Raw NAND Capacity 64GiB 128GiB 256GiB Usable Capacity 59.6GiB 119.2GiB 238.5GiB Number of NAND Packages 8 16 16 Number of Die per Package 1 1 2 NAND Micron 25nm synchronous MLC NAND Controller Marvell 88SS9174-BLD2 Cache 128MB DDR3 256MB DDR3 512MB DDR3 Sequential Read 520MB/s 520MB/s 520MB/s Sequential Write 90MB/s 200MB/s 390MB/s 4K Random Read 61K IOPS 71K IOPS 73K IOPS 4K Random Write 25K IOPS 51K IOPS 70K...