Plextor 256GB M5 Pro

upgrade from orig firmware was easy

orig 1.05 firmware has a serious flaw - resulting in write losses to drive.bricking it essentially

Excellent SSD fast and furious

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Good read write and nice clone software

Laptop is getting laggy these last 4-6 weeks with regens, read and writes, while using AutoCAD and Revit. Presumed it was the may be the video card or perhaps HD ; Had time to spend troubleshooting. Its the HD failing ; Did a SMART check and received...

I ordered a Plextor PX-256M5Pro SSD, and when it arrived, it worked for a few hours, then failed to be recognized on my computer. A call to the Plextor tech site, proved the SSD was faulty. I then called the NewEgg site, and explained the problem....

No one likes an item to fail, but products (like people) are not perfect. The only disappointment regarding the failure episode was MY choice of shipping options. I had selected the no-cost EggSaver option on the original order, and the replacement was...

Works exactly as it should. This was my first venture into SSD's and I couldn't be happier. Just remember to only use SSD as your bootdrive. Get a large (1TB or higher) HDD for your storage drive. Move all your heavy files such as music, photo's,...

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Just check the features you can't really ask for more and has a good price to go with all those features it offers

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Fast, like most SSDs

Not compatible with my Alienware m11x which was the intended recipient of this drive ; The drive was not visible in the bios at all ; I ended up installing it in my XPS15 and worked fine there

It just works right away in my desktop, no problem at all ; Now my Windows 7 has lightning fast boot up time

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Reliable so far. I replaced an OCZ Agility 3 that was a disaster turning off the computer 2-3 times a day with this one that perform a lot better. Nothing spectacular but it does the job

Getting Sequential Read of 380 MB/s and Sequential Write of 215 MB/s on SATA III 6Gbps. NOT even close to what manufacture claims. Those readings were on an ASUS Extreme IV MOBO with 32MB RAM and an Intel i7 3930K

Pay attention to the packaging. The box contains a flip-cover box with all the necessary contents. The bracket is ingeniously packed with the sides poked through slots in the bottom of the flip-box, around the SSD. A flap inside the flip-cover contains...

No big deal, but Plextor should reprint their Quick Install Guide so it does not mention the cloning software on CD "provided", and directs the customer to download the software from the URL with the provided Keys on the Flip-box top