Plextor Jumps Into SSD Fray With 64GB, 128GB
The premium optical drive maker gets into the solid state market.
Plextor, the famed maker of optical drives earlier this year announced that it will be jumping into solid-state drives (SSDs). Today the company announced the release of its first line of SSDs, the PX-64M1S (64GB) and the PX-128M1S (128GB).
The company's first generation of SSDs use Marvell controller chipsets, which will help the 64GB version deliver up to 110MB/s sequential read, 65MB/s in sequential write, and up to 4,200 random read IOPS and 1,200 random write IOPS. The 128GB version will run a little faster and deliver up to 130MB/s sequential read, 70MB/s sequential write, and up to 4,300 random read IOPS and 1,800 random write IOPS.
Plextor boasts that its SSDs will be equipped with a unique Wear Leveling algorithm that the company claims can prevent degradation of drive performance and prolong product life. The initial press info did not specify whether or not the drives support the TRIM command for Windows 7 users.
Both models are available now, with MSRP around $225 for 64GB and $400 for 128GB.

BLAST YOU!!! How dumb can I be?
2) I'm glad that all these companies are jumping in because it will accelerate the price drops.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
(One can hope,
BLAST YOU!!! How dumb can I be?
2) I'm glad that all these companies are jumping in because it will accelerate the price drops.
BTW the negatives on my first post means you enjoyed the movie!
It's a joke, and a little humorous, lighten up.
haha i will never do it again, but it is fun for a change of pace.
Im with you man. Theyve been in existence for almost 10 years and they are still pretty expensive for a relatively small drive. Not saying Im not looking at a vertex turbo 120gb or anything but I'd like it to not stab me in the wallet when I do. The more people that are in the market the better IMHO.
Let me guess, rickroll video?
Here's the corrected url.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
that were bootable but they never took off because they were to expensive. And obviously they didn't learn from that because their at it again and they cost between $1,500.00 to $ 4,000.00 for the new ones. SSD Hard Drives as we know them now are only 3 years old.
Hard troll is a hard fail, sorry.
+1
Maybe if they priced the 64GB around $150 or less, but you can reliably get a much better spec'ed Indilinx-based drive for under $200. Everyone always keeps repeating "competition -> lower prices" but it really hasn't been happening with SSDs despite yet another "competitor" joining the fray pretty much every month...
Definitely NOT. SSDs have Read/Writes in the hundreds of MB and latency in fractions of a millisecond. Even VelociRaptor drives have latencies of about 4 ms and Read/Writes that do not even come close to SSDs. Expensive? Yes. Slow? No.