Posted by flung in Plextor and Solid State Drives02 Mar 2010 12:07 am
Plextor announces 1st ever solid state drives
Plextor finally enters the solid state drive business with today’s introduction of two new SSDs – the PX-64M1S 64GB SSD and PX-128M1S 128GB SSD.
Plextor’s first generation solid state drives use non-volatile NAND flash memory and feature Marvell controller chipsets. Features of the 2.5 inch drives are as follows:
- Integrated SATA II interface
- PX-64M1S delivers 110MB/s sequential read rate, 65MB/s sequential write rate, up to 4200 random read IOPS, and 1200 random write IOPS
- PX-128M1S delivers 130MB/s sequential read rate, 70MB/s sequential write rate, up to 4300 random read IOPS, and 1800 random write IOPS
- High shock and vibration resistance
- Comes with Plextor’s Wear Leveling algorithm to maintain reliability over extended period of usage
- S.M.A.R.T. support to analyze and report errors
The drives are available now with the PX-64M1S available for $225 and the PX-128M1S available for $400.
