Plextor released version 1.03, which promises to further improve the performance, at the time this review was published. (The drive was tested with version 1.02 of the firmware. I reviewed the 256GB version of the drive, and while it wasn't the fastest on all counts, it was easily one of the fastest SSDs on the market I've seen. The M5 Pro Xtreme did very well in my testing and it was indeed slightly faster than the M5 Pro. The M5 Pro Xtreme comes in a similarly compact package as its processor. The 256GB version, for example, is available for less than $250. For this reason, I was pleasantly surprised to find its current street pricing lower than $1 per gigabyte, which is the threshold for considering an SSD as affordable. This high MTBF means that the drive should have an exceptionally long lifespan.ĭuring CES, Plextor Managing Director Darlo Perez told me that the M5 Pro Xtreme would be likely more expensive than other high-end SSDs on the market. For desktops, you can install the drive as a secondary drive for the cloning process.Īnd finally, again, similar to its predecessor, the Xtreme SSD also comes with a five-year warranty and offers the some 2.4 million hours of mean time between failure (MTBF), about double that of some other SSDs. Unlike a few other SSDs, such as the Monster Digital, the M5 Pro doesn't include a USB-SATA adapter, so you'll have to get one by yourself in case you want to upgrade your laptop.
This helps you quickly update your existing computer from a hard drive (or an old SSD) to the new SSD. And inside the compact package of the Xtreme, similar to the Pro, you'll also find an NTI SSD Utility Suite that includes drive cloning software and backup software.
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