The Plexor M6E: A Groundbreaking PCI Express SSD

The Plexor M6E is a revolutionary new solid-state drive that pushes the boundaries of what is possible with traditional flash storage. This device uses two PCI Express Gen 2 lanes to achieve a theoretical maximum throughput of 1,000 megabytes per second, which is approximately 60% faster than SATA 3. The M6E's performance is impressive, especially when it comes to sequential reads and writes, which are rated at around 770 megabytes per second and 580 megabytes per second respectively.

But what makes the Plexor M6E truly unique is its implementation of a Frankenstein-like combination of various technologies. The device features eight Toshiba's 19 NM toggle nanoflash chips, a Marvel 9183 native PCI Express controller, and a custom firmware that optimizes performance for gamers. This custom firmware allows the M6E to tap into a wide range of connectivity options, including PCI Express, SATA, and SATA Express, making it an ideal choice for those who need flexibility in their system.

One of the most interesting features of the Plexor M6E is its use of native UEFI boot support. This feature allows the device to take advantage of the latest advancements in UEFI boot technology, enabling faster drive initialization and boot times on UEFI motherboards. Additionally, the M6E comes with a range of other technologies, including a True Speed garbage collection algorithm that helps maintain performance over time.

But what really sets the Plexor M6E apart is its commitment to transparency and reliability. The company proudly declares its driver liability testing standards on the product page, which is a rare sight in the SSD industry. This level of openness and accountability is a testament to the company's confidence in their product and its performance.

In reality, however, the Plexor M6E's performance may not live up to some users' expectations. The device's high price point and complex implementation can make it difficult to work with, especially for those who are not experienced with custom SSD configurations. Additionally, Microsoft's poor native Windows 8 AHCI driver has been known to cause issues with early adopters of the M6E.

Despite these challenges, the Plexor M6E is an exciting development in the world of solid-state storage. Its innovative use of PCI Express technology and commitment to transparency make it a compelling choice for those who are looking for a high-performance SSD with unique features. And while its performance may not be perfect, the device's potential and promise make it well worth watching as this technology continues to evolve.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to learn more this video ended up being less about the plexor m6 SSD specifically and more to do with what it represents in general finally a move away from the longtime bottleneck that is the SATA interface and towards PCI Express for system storage but with a bit of a Twist this time unlike previous cludy Solutions like the ocz revo Drive which used a RAID controller as a middleman between the PCI Express controller on your CPU or motherboard and the SATA controllers on multiple drives that were soldered onto a PCB something that caused long boot times no support for the trim command and poor compatibility aside from being something you could set up just as easily yourself this new approach uses native PCI Express all the way through to the controller on your Drive elegant ehy well okay so this product doesn't look particularly elegant but don't worry this PCI Express card that the daughter board sits on is basically nothing more than a dumb interconnect between your PCI Express slot and the m.2 interface SSD that's sitting on it here electrically it's just a straight pass through so Elegance isn't always about looks am I right before we get into the M60 specifically though it's probable that you've never actually seen an m.2 drive before so let's do aqu WTF is that session here this interface on this motherboard here might look pretty much like an Neta or mini PCI Express lot but it's actually much more badass than that it gives whatever is plugged into it access to up to four pcie gen 3 Lanes a seta 36 gbit port and even USB the card side of the interface is designed from the ground up for the best possible ratio of features to physical space making it a great way to get desktop performance on Ultrabooks and other small thin and light devices cards can be designed in a number of length and widths with most of them 22 mm wide just wide enough for a flash chip and they can tap into whatever combination of connectivity they need including PCI Express SATA and SATA Express which is basically ahci commands over a PCI Express Bus using the new 3.2 standard you'll be able to tell what your card needs by the keying on the bottom of the connector which leads us pretty well into the m6e it uses two PCI Express Gen 2 lanes for a theoretical Max throughput of 1,000 megabytes per second or about 60% more than SATA 36 gbit it's 80 mm long and 22 mm wide with eight of toshiba's 19 NM toggle Nan flash chips and a Marvel 9183 native PCI Express controller that uses ahci commands instead of nvme to offer improved compatibility and driverless operation at the cost of some performance particularly in random workloads now while plex's product page laughably declares it to be the first SSD optimized for gamers the speed of this drive with their custom firmware is pretty impressive the 256 gig model that we have here can handle sequential right speeds of around 580 megabytes per second and sequential reads of around 770 megabytes per second well over the maximum of sata 3 with random reads and wres both rated at around 100,00 000 iops now beyond that plexer does include some extra Technologies including native UEFI boot support for faster drivve initialization and boot times on ufi motherboards as well as their usual true speed garbage collection algorithm that helps it maintain its performance over time and a 5-year warranty to go along with the claims about you know outstanding reliability that they make now speaking of those claims plexer takes an interesting approach here while another manufacturer a very reputable one I might add asked me not to talk about their use of flex R SSD testing Chambers plexer wears this right on their sleeve and calls out their driver liability testing standards right on the product page and it's for this reason that the lusch tips.com Forum uses a plexor SSD as its boot drive there are only a handful of SSD makers that I would trust in such a deployment so there you have it while the m6c is very expensive features a Frankenstein like implementation and and in the real world due to Microsoft's poor native Windows 8 ahci driver and some other early adopter struggles doesn't really perform better than a normal SSD it is the first Native PCI Express SSD I've had the pleasure of laying my hands on and I'm excited for the future of this new technology speaking of being excited for the future summer is finally heating up now you may have noticed my eyewear changing throughout the video today I'm actually just going to bring this up here and that is all thanks to our new sponsor warie Parker and the unusual way that they let their customers shop for eyewear their free home try on program lets you shop their online portfolio of prescription glasses and sunglasses pick out five frames you like try them on in the comfort of your own home you know blast them out to your friends for opinions or whatever else then box them back up and send them back with the included shipping box and included shipping label free of charge Warby Parker will then send you a brand new one of the one that you picked for the enjoyment of you and everyone else around you the best part for me is that the extras are included so there's no high pressure upsell anti-glare coated prescription glasses and polarized non-prescription sunglasses start at 95 bucks with prescription sunglasses starting at $150 so you can actually get a few pairs of fashionable well- constructed glasses for less than what you'd normally pay for one from a similar quality Boutique brand on top of that they ship a pair of glasses to someone in Need for every pair that they sell to a customer so visit warie parker.com Linus to check out their new Spectrum Sun collection and as an added bonus if you use that URL when you do your try on you'll get free three-day shipping on your final selection so thanks morby Parker for supporting Linus techtips and thanks to you the viewer for watching without both of you then this whole thing wouldn't work and we couldn't make videos so way to go all of you as usual guys the link to pricing and availability for the plexor m6e is in the video description below the like dislike and share buttons which you should use accordingly also in the video description is a support link where you can buy a t-shirt give us a monthly contribution or change your Amazon bookmark so that we get an affiliate Kickback whenever you buy stuff it helps us out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more videos like this one like ssds motherboards sunglasses can put these back on these studio lights are actually surprisingly bright it's much betterthe CM Storm sf7 uses a massive 18 cm fan to cool your gaming notebook and it adds a four port USB hub click now to learn more this video ended up being less about the plexor m6 SSD specifically and more to do with what it represents in general finally a move away from the longtime bottleneck that is the SATA interface and towards PCI Express for system storage but with a bit of a Twist this time unlike previous cludy Solutions like the ocz revo Drive which used a RAID controller as a middleman between the PCI Express controller on your CPU or motherboard and the SATA controllers on multiple drives that were soldered onto a PCB something that caused long boot times no support for the trim command and poor compatibility aside from being something you could set up just as easily yourself this new approach uses native PCI Express all the way through to the controller on your Drive elegant ehy well okay so this product doesn't look particularly elegant but don't worry this PCI Express card that the daughter board sits on is basically nothing more than a dumb interconnect between your PCI Express slot and the m.2 interface SSD that's sitting on it here electrically it's just a straight pass through so Elegance isn't always about looks am I right before we get into the M60 specifically though it's probable that you've never actually seen an m.2 drive before so let's do aqu WTF is that session here this interface on this motherboard here might look pretty much like an Neta or mini PCI Express lot but it's actually much more badass than that it gives whatever is plugged into it access to up to four pcie gen 3 Lanes a seta 36 gbit port and even USB the card side of the interface is designed from the ground up for the best possible ratio of features to physical space making it a great way to get desktop performance on Ultrabooks and other small thin and light devices cards can be designed in a number of length and widths with most of them 22 mm wide just wide enough for a flash chip and they can tap into whatever combination of connectivity they need including PCI Express SATA and SATA Express which is basically ahci commands over a PCI Express Bus using the new 3.2 standard you'll be able to tell what your card needs by the keying on the bottom of the connector which leads us pretty well into the m6e it uses two PCI Express Gen 2 lanes for a theoretical Max throughput of 1,000 megabytes per second or about 60% more than SATA 36 gbit it's 80 mm long and 22 mm wide with eight of toshiba's 19 NM toggle Nan flash chips and a Marvel 9183 native PCI Express controller that uses ahci commands instead of nvme to offer improved compatibility and driverless operation at the cost of some performance particularly in random workloads now while plex's product page laughably declares it to be the first SSD optimized for gamers the speed of this drive with their custom firmware is pretty impressive the 256 gig model that we have here can handle sequential right speeds of around 580 megabytes per second and sequential reads of around 770 megabytes per second well over the maximum of sata 3 with random reads and wres both rated at around 100,00 000 iops now beyond that plexer does include some extra Technologies including native UEFI boot support for faster drivve initialization and boot times on ufi motherboards as well as their usual true speed garbage collection algorithm that helps it maintain its performance over time and a 5-year warranty to go along with the claims about you know outstanding reliability that they make now speaking of those claims plexer takes an interesting approach here while another manufacturer a very reputable one I might add asked me not to talk about their use of flex R SSD testing Chambers plexer wears this right on their sleeve and calls out their driver liability testing standards right on the product page and it's for this reason that the lusch tips.com Forum uses a plexor SSD as its boot drive there are only a handful of SSD makers that I would trust in such a deployment so there you have it while the m6c is very expensive features a Frankenstein like implementation and and in the real world due to Microsoft's poor native Windows 8 ahci driver and some other early adopter struggles doesn't really perform better than a normal SSD it is the first Native PCI Express SSD I've had the pleasure of laying my hands on and I'm excited for the future of this new technology speaking of being excited for the future summer is finally heating up now you may have noticed my eyewear changing throughout the video today I'm actually just going to bring this up here and that is all thanks to our new sponsor warie Parker and the unusual way that they let their customers shop for eyewear their free home try on program lets you shop their online portfolio of prescription glasses and sunglasses pick out five frames you like try them on in the comfort of your own home you know blast them out to your friends for opinions or whatever else then box them back up and send them back with the included shipping box and included shipping label free of charge Warby Parker will then send you a brand new one of the one that you picked for the enjoyment of you and everyone else around you the best part for me is that the extras are included so there's no high pressure upsell anti-glare coated prescription glasses and polarized non-prescription sunglasses start at 95 bucks with prescription sunglasses starting at $150 so you can actually get a few pairs of fashionable well- constructed glasses for less than what you'd normally pay for one from a similar quality Boutique brand on top of that they ship a pair of glasses to someone in Need for every pair that they sell to a customer so visit warie parker.com Linus to check out their new Spectrum Sun collection and as an added bonus if you use that URL when you do your try on you'll get free three-day shipping on your final selection so thanks morby Parker for supporting Linus techtips and thanks to you the viewer for watching without both of you then this whole thing wouldn't work and we couldn't make videos so way to go all of you as usual guys the link to pricing and availability for the plexor m6e is in the video description below the like dislike and share buttons which you should use accordingly also in the video description is a support link where you can buy a t-shirt give us a monthly contribution or change your Amazon bookmark so that we get an affiliate Kickback whenever you buy stuff it helps us out a lot thanks again for watching and as always don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech tips for more videos like this one like ssds motherboards sunglasses can put these back on these studio lights are actually surprisingly bright it's much better\n"