Plextor M6e Black Edition PCI Express SSD Review, M.2 In The Slot

Name: Plextor M6e Black Edition PCI Express SSD Review
Brand: Plextor

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, February 09, 2015, 12:00 PM EDT

Next we ran SiSoft SANDRA 2014, the the System ANalyzer, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant. Here, we used the Physical Disk test suite and provide the results from our comparison SSDs. The benchmarks were run on unformatted drives and read and write performance metrics are detailed below.

SiSoft SANDRA 2014

Synthetic HDD Benchmarking

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The Plextor M6e and M6e Black Edition performed right on top of each other in the SiSoft SANDRA physical disk benchmark as well. Reads were significantly faster than the SATA drives, but writes were only marginally higher.

ATTO Disk Benchmark

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ATTO is another "quick and dirty" type of disk benchmark that measures transfer speeds across a specific volume length. It measures raw transfer rates for both reads and writes and graphs them out in an easily interpreted chart. We chose .5kb through 8192kb transfer sizes and a queue depth of 6 over a total max volume length of 256MB. ATTO's workloads are sequential in nature and measure raw bandwidth, rather than I/O response time, access latency, etc.

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The ATTO Disk Benchmark tells essentially the same story as SANDRA. The M6e and M6e Black Edition performed similarly, and write performance was only slightly better than the SATA drives. Read performance was good too, though with smaller block sizes, the additional bandwidth afforded by the PCIe-based M6e Black Edition and M6e doesn't help much at all.

Tags: SSD, Storage, PCI Express, PCIe, solid state, Plextor

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com