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Smart Wizard
Get a complete build plan based on budget and goals.
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Plextor

Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
| Merchant | Price | $/GB |
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Newegg | $197.99 | $0.773 | In Stock | $197.99 | Buy |
About This Product
The Plextor M8Pe is a PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD with 256GB capacity and 512MB cache. It offers significantly faster sequential read/write speeds compared to SATA SSDs, making it suitable for users seeking improved system responsiveness and faster application loading. While not the fastest NVMe drive available, it provides a performance uplift over budget NVMe drives and traditional SATA SSDs.
Verdict
βGood for users upgrading from SATA SSDs seeking a noticeable speed boost.β
Performance, endurance, NAND architecture, thermals, and compatibility.
Sequential, random, and sustained speeds.
Sequential Read
2,000 MB/s
Sequential Write
900 MB/s
4K Random Read
210K IOPS
4K Random Write
23K IOPS
How long the drive lasts under sustained writes.
TBW (lifetime writes)
384 TB
Drive Writes/Day
0.82 DWPD
MTBF
2.4M hours
Warranty
5 years
Controller, NAND, and cache β what most retailers don't show you.
DRAM Cache
Yes (512 MB)
Critical for Gen5 drives and laptops.
Heatsink
Included
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