Plextor company announced at CES a few novelties from the world of drives. Among them were M8Se, which should interest gamers and enthusiasts.
Plextor M8Se drives will be available in four variants on volume: 128 GB, 256 GB, 512 GB i 1 TB - the choice, as an independent carrier M. 2 2280 (M8SeGN) or a carrier mounted on the PCI-Express adapter with light and heat sink (M8Se). Seem to be, that the manufacturer has no plans to release a version of the M. 2 with a radiator (in M8Pe series).
M8Se carrier version with adapter
On board turned controller Marvell 88SS1093, which uses the PCI-Express interface 3.0 x4 and NVM Express protocol. Besides, производитель применил память Toshiba 15 nm MLC NAND and cache LPDDR3 (depending on the carrier container, 256 MB - 1,25 GB).
Nośnk M8Se
Although the specification suggests that etonositeli M8Pe, but the new model, but, предлагают немного хуже производительность – количество операций ввода-вывода в секунду, reaches to 210 000/175 000 IOPS. For comparison M8Pe models achieve 280 000/240 000 IOPS.
Plextor M8Se should debut this quarter, but their prices are not yet known (все указывает на то, that they will be lower, chemmodeli M8Pe).
At the turn of the second and third quarters of the manufacturer plans to offer the first model, memory based 3D TLC NAND (probably, Toshiba production).
A source: Overclockers, eTeknix, OCClub