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Plextor M5M mSATA SSD (128GB) - Small Wonder

By Kenny Yeo - 22 Feb 2013

Results - Iometer (Part 1)

Iometer Results (Part 1)

Lastly, we put the drives through the rigorous grind of Iometer, with different workloads and I/O queue depths. We have chosen to show results from a queue depth of 1 to 5 as this better represents the workloads a typical consumer might face.

Iometer has usually been a benchmark that Marvell drives have excelled in and the new Plextor M5M did reasonably well here, posting very high IOPS in the 64k streaming reads workload. Performance on the 64k streaming writes and Web Server workloads were good too, and the drive only suffered slightly on the File Server workload. Only the Plextor M5 Pro and OCZ Vertex 4 were convincingly quicker than the M5M.

 

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8.0
  • Performance 8
  • Features 8
  • Value 8.5
The Good
Good performance on AS SSD and Iometer
High-end Marvell controller and NAND memory chips
Well priced
The Bad
Erratic performance on HD Tune, PCMark 7 and PCMark Vantage
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