Plextor M8Se Series 512Gb NVMe SSD technical review

Posted on November 07, 2022 by Raymond Chen

Plextor's M8Se Series use PCIe M.2 or PCIe 3.0 x 4 interface. Detailed characteristics of this NVMe SSD in our article.

Plextor M8Se Series 512Gb NVMe SSD technical review

Plextor's 512Gb M8Se Series NVMe SSD works on Marvell Eldora controller. The M8Se Series comes equipped with Toshiba MLC flash memory. This NVMe is offered also in three capacities: 1 Tb, 128 Gb and 256 Gb.

Performance and benchmarks

NVMe SSD works on PCIe M.2 or PCIe 3.0 x 4 bus with write speeds 1000 Mbps, and maximum read speeds 2400 Mbps. M8Se Series has IOPS 210000 on reading and 175000 on writing operations.

Endurance and warranty

Manufacturer provide 3-year warranty limited by 360 Total Bytes Written. As well it has 1.5 million hours mean time between failure.

Specs

Category Value
Capacity 512 Gb
Interface M.2 or PCIe 3.0 x 4
Controller Marvell Eldora
Memory type Toshiba MLC
DRAM n/a
Read speed (Mb/s) 2400
Write speed (Mb/s) 1000
Read IOPS 210000
Write IOPS 175000
Endurance (TBW) 360
MTBF (million hours) 1.5
Warranty (years) 3

Conclusion

Plextor M8Se Series 512Gb may work on previous bus standard that is significantly slower than PCIe 4.0. The write speed is 1000 Mbps, that is slower than has most of rivals. The Plextor M8Se Series provide possibility to write 360 TBW, that is pretty well against rivals. On balance, Plextor M8Se Series 512Gb has more minuses and our site highly do not recommend to spend money for it.

+ Pros

  • Endurance

- Cons

  • Slow writing speed
  • PCIe 3.0
  • Capacity

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Plextor M8Se 512GB PCIe NVMe SSD

FAQ

The M8Se Series 512Gb has no dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) in their controller or information about it is unknown. DRAM makes SSD faster, but also more expensive.

The Plextor M8Se Series 512Gb due to the low density of memory chips may run without additional heat sinks. Some motherboards already has thermal pads below or above the storage to enhance productivity during high loads.

The M8Se Series 512Gb has write speed 1000 Mb/s, read speed 2400 Mbps. NVMe works on Marvell Eldora controller and M.2 or PCIe 3.0 x 4 interface standard. The NAND memory type is Toshiba MLC.
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