Should you be in the market for a SATA 3 SSD then we have a couple of hints though.
#Plextor software upgrade#
That combined with the performance SATA3 offers these days is simply a massive difference and probably the best upgrade you can make for your computer anno 2014. Make no mistake, replacing a HDD with an SSD in your desktop PC or laptop eliminates the random access lag of the HDD head, it is no longer mechanical. We very much enjoy the grand sustained performance of this SSD series, if you copy a vast amount of compressed data, then the OCZ Vector will perform seriously fast in performance. If you put a drive like this into your SATA 3 compatible laptop or SATA 3 compatible PC, you'll have no idea what is about to hit you. Plextor needs to make the downloads much more friendly as currently their website is a maze to find stuff in.Īn SSD is enjoyable, very much so.
#Plextor software software#
Your SSD still will write that info at advertised NAND performance.One tip for Plextor, downloading of software is a difficult task at the Plextor website. Fun is the second-generation RAM caching software called PlexTurbo, the numbers shown are trivial though as it remains to be a cache, popular files (hot data) will be loaded from it, and on a FIFO basis writes will be dealt with the same. The software will also allow you to erase your drive and check out some functions. The tool will check for available firmware and updates it trouble free, 9 out of 10 times it can flash your drive non volatile and thus keep your data intact. SoftwareĪlongside the SSD comes the Plextor Toolbox, which is a handy utility alright. So sequential and sustained writes did not disappoint, copying an ISO or MKV file of 4 GB takes merely a few seconds to write to the SSD. Performance and features wise the SSD series is on par with enthusiast class SATA3 SSDs. Overall the results with the SSD are simply very good. Our primary read trace testing shows slightly less than expected results, other than that the 64-bit work and game load trace runs show overall good numbers. This results into very good IOPS performance.
It shows as the firmware seems to be very well developed. The usage of Synchronous toggle A19 nm NAND from Toshiba does work well for them and over time the usage of that dual-core Marvell 88SS9187 controller has helped them out greatly as well. When you focus a little closer on performance you can see that P lextor can keep up with that competition comfortably albeit the advertised numbers are overall a hint slower. The 256GB, 512GB and 1TB obviously have blistering fast writes. While that is still fast it does however result into more mainstream SSD writes. One note that I have to make is about the 128GB model in specific, less NAND ICs are being used alongside with a smaller DRAM cache, this results into write performance of roughly 300 MB/sec.
#Plextor software pro#
Plextor brings an SSD series to the market that is more competitive towards the Samsung PRO line, the big guns from, OCZ and the high end range from Intel.