Plextor M6 PRO 256GB Solid State Drive Review

Anvil’s Storage Utilities

Anvil’s Storage Utilities is a new benchmarking utility that we have started using here at eTeknix, it’s completely free to download and has the ability to test mainly hard drives and solid state drives, but also any other form of storage medium that you can throw at it. As well as testing the drive in a variety of benchmarking tests, it also has a drive endurance test that consistently reads and writes data to the selected medium to give days, months and potentially even years of use in a shorter period of time to see how the drive copes in the longer term.

Unconditioned

Conditioned

Compressible Data

The Plextor M6 PRO handles compressible and incompressible data equally well. There is barely any difference in the tests, and this is just another thumbs up for this drive.

Drive Comparison

For the purpose of drive comparison I use the performance figures from both unconditioned and conditioned tests with 0% data fill.

The Plextor M6 PRO did great in the Anvil Storage Benchmarks too, showing almost identical numbers when having to handle compressible and incompressible data. Not only that, it also gave some impressive numbers in both transfer speeds and IOPS. And while the drive doesn’t rank in on the first place here, I can easily say that this is the fastest and at the same time most reliable drive I’ve tested so far in this test.