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Lite On Plextor M5M 0.85-Inch 256GB mSATA Solid State Drive (M5M 256GB)

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  • Read/write speeds of 80,000/77,000 IOPS
  • Sequential read/write of 540/430MBs
  • Supports SATA 6Gb/s standard for maximum transfer speeds and compatible with SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 1.5Gb/s
  • Latest server-grade Marvell 88SS9187 controller guarantees fast and reliable operation under high loads.
  • True Speed technology gives sustained long-term performance and prevents SSD speed drop, automatically returning performance to like-new speeds.
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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 2 x 1.2 x 1 inches ; 0.6 ounces
  • Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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  • ASIN: B00B5BRIF8
  • Item model number: M5M 256GB
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Date first available at Amazon.com: January 23, 2013
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Product Description

The Plextor M5M is a high-performance mSATA 6Gb/s SSD specifically engineered to give ultrabook, tablet PC, and other JEDEC MO-300 form factor users the speed and low power consumption benefits of the newest generation SSD technology. The M5M features the latest generation Marvell 88SS9187 , delivering market-leading mSATA speeds with a maximum sequential read/write speed of 540MB/s, and write speed of 430MB/s, and random read/write speeds of 80K IOPS/77K IOPS. With True Speed technology the M5M ensures real-world performance benefits over the long term and avoids performance slow down.

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I back up data to the cloud and to my server, I would recommend backing up any computer whether it is a physical drive or SSD.
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Unlike SSDs based on Sandforce controller, the sequential read/write are the "real" speeds, i.e. performs as fast on uncompressible data as well.
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I've been very happy with the performance, I have nice fast boot times, very quick load times for games and absolutely zero problems.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful By Amazon Customer on March 31, 2013
Just to clarify, the mSATA drives are not standard 2.5 inch in size. They are less than the size of a credit card. The 2.5 inch variant is the M5 Pro or something like that and would be on the SATA(not mSATA) interface.

I purchased a Lenovo Y580 and it came with great hardware. . . .except for the 5400RPM 1TB HDD. If you've used a PC with an SSD installed, you get spoiled and find a mechanical drive, especially one at 5400 RPM unacceptable for use as the main OS drive.

Turns out, my laptop had an empty mSATA slot, so I picked up this drive. This allowed me to keep the mechanical drive installed; I repurposed it to a mass storage drive.

Installation was simple, all you need to do after locating the mSATA slot is slip the drive in and secure it with a screw(I needed one M2 x 3mm screw, so keep this in mind). After that, the laptop detected the drive just fine. I installed Windows 8 on it in less than 20 minutes, and formatted the existing 1TB mechanical as one big 1TB storage space. Now I had a blazing fast boot and apps drive, and a decent amount of mobile storage.

I ran some benches and got the following: 508.4MB/sec sequential reads and 415MB/sec sequential writes, so. . .close to what they advertised.

Windows boots shockingly fast and apps like Excel and Photoshop, launch in just a few seconds; MS Word, nearly instantaneous.

If have a laptop with an empty mSATA slot and like me, you want to leave your mechanical installed for mass storage, look no further, this is the one to get.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful By D. Engel on September 6, 2013
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I purchased a Lenovo IdeaCentre A730 as a machine for my house to work on. The machine is great, but the weak-sauce 5400RPM platter-based boot drive was way too slow, making the system in general seem slow.

I read in the manual that the system could optionally be configured with an MSATA SSD. It can, and this one works perfectly. Here's how I upgraded mine:

1) Installed everything I wanted on the original drive (Adobe CC, Autodesk PDS, utilities, and whatever, as well as current updates. (Bonus Points; move all your windows library locations to an external USB3.0 disk first before imaging).
2) Installed this new drive - NOTE, the screws that come with this drive will not fit the stanchions used by the A730; they are too small. Get a set of assorted PC mobo screws if you don't have a bunch laying around. Unsure of the OD of the screw, but they need to be the size between the "Mounts motherboard to the case" screw and "super-tiny screws packaged with this drive"
3) Used Acronis TruImage trial to create a backup image of the original drive (image the WHOLE disk, not using partition mode, to both backup and restore). Then, restored this drive image to the new drive.

With all the correct partitions mirrored, your drive's available space will be 212 total gigs (some are lost to the system and recovery partitions). After the OS, all updates, and Adobe CC, Office 2013, and Autodesk Product Design Suite (all likely the largest programs you'll install on a machine of this level) and required utilities (PowerISO, 7-Zip, etc) there are about 80GB free left on the drive.
4) Unhooked the cable to the old drive and rebooted the machine to confirm the system booted and that programs continued to function. They did; UPGRADE COMPLETE.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful By Dpbours on June 19, 2013
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With a RAID chipset in my W530 laptop, the laptop kept on putting the raid as the C-drive and the Plextor as the D drive, while I wanted to get the Plextor to operate as main system drive. Only thing that worked was taking both drives that form the raid out of my laptop, install this Plextor SSD and then put the two RAID drives back, but also change in the bios that the RAID is to be ignored as startup option. Works fine now!

I was surprised to seee how small mSATA is! I expected it to be small, but this is really small for 256 GB. With the mSATA SSD installed the Windows index for my system went from 5.9 to 7.1. It is fast for sure. The future will tell whether it is reliable as well, but people seem to be very happy with the Plextor and its chipset.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By charlie on February 18, 2014
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installed as a secondary storage drive.
Plextor customer service (thanks Tim), highest quality.
super recommend buying from them.
I know that I will again.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful By nasdaqboom on January 8, 2014
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I bought this SSD as a replacement for my Lenovo Y580 laptop. The original laptop configuration was a 1TB physical drive and a 16GB msata SSD. I have updated the configuration to a 2.5 Samsung 256GB SSD for data and the Plextor msata 256GB for OS/programs. I may install data intensive programs on the data drive as well if this balancing improves throughput.

The benefits I have noticed are speed and extended battery times.

The reason I became interested in this upgrade happened when I was at a customer facility using the laptop to work and demonstrate progress on a project when the laptop received a hard bump while operating. The laptop shutdown and upon restarting it went into error checking and repair mode. I lost a small amount of data from the hard drive that could not be repaired. I back up data to the cloud and to my server, I would recommend backing up any computer whether it is a physical drive or SSD. SSDs have no moving parts but are still prone to failure electrically but are not prone to failure from shock like a physical drive is. SSDs are the best solutions for laptops because of the high probability of bumps/shocks while operating but are not often used by manufacturers due to cost.
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