Plextor Introduces NVME SSD M8Pe

Plextor will introduce a high-end solid state drive, the M8Pe, at CES electronics show next week. The company says it is an SSD with m2 form factor that will work with the Non-Volatile Memory Express protocol. The manufacturer will announce more details at the fair.

The M8Pe is the successor to the M6e, Plextor told PCWorld. Plextor canceled the M7e SSD announced last year in the summer, presumably because it couldn’t compete with Samsung’s SSDs at the time. With the M8Pe, Plextor wants to distinguish itself again in the high-end SSD market.

The Plextor SSD has a PCI Express 3.0 x4 connection and works with the NVME protocol. Using this protocol, the amount of iops at 4KB random reading will be around 270,000 and around 150,000 when writing. Plextor does not report what the further performance is. The manufacturer is expected to announce such details next week at CES electronics fair in Las Vegas.

It is already known that the M8Pe comes with Plextors additions such as PlexTurbo RAM caching, a compression method to optimize storage space. The SSD also comes with PlexVault, a way to protect private data on a shared computer. Just like the performance, the manufacturer has not yet announced anything about the storage capacity, price and when the SSD should be on the market.