The Plextor M9Pe NVMe SSD Review: Teaching An Old Chip New Tricks
by Billy Tallis from on (#3QY3B)
The M9Pe is Plextor's first NVMe SSD to use 3D NAND, replacing the previous flagship's planar MLC with Toshiba 3D TLC NAND but keeping the same aging Marvell controller. The M9Pe family offers form factors with and without heatsinks, but from our testing we can show that performance and power efficiency lag behind other recent high-end SSDs.