Plextor M3S Solid State Drive Breaks Cover [The Plextor M3S Solid State Drive Offers Better Capacity, Lower Prices & A Couple Nice Surprises To Boot]

Posted on TFTS by Steve Anderson on Friday, 18. November 2011 under: Computers & Computing, Hard Disks & Solid State Drives

I’ve always said that the two big things keeping solid state drives from really catching on: their comparative lack of storage against hard drives, and their comparatively high pricing. But the new model out from Plextor, the M3S, is going to go a long way toward getting my interest, and hopefully, yours too.

The Plextor M3S will come in your choice of three flavors: a 128 gig model, a 256 gig model and a 512 gig model, though that one will be coming out early next year as opposed to being available right now. All three are set to offer up SATA III and a Marvell controller, plus will offer up 445 meg per second write speeds as well as 525 meg per second read speeds, all backed up by the company’s proprietary True Speed systems, which is said to preserve the drive’s original rapidity even as data gets increasingly fragmented within the device itself.

Pretty nice, of course, and it only gets better when you consider they’ll be offering up a full five year warranty on these when you buy in. It’s been well established that data archiving over the long term has been one of the biggest draws of the solid state drive concept in general, and happily, having a half-decade warranty will back that perception up nicely.

Though the comparatively high prices will also be in attendance here, with the 128 gig model selling for $200, the 256 gig model going for $350 and that sweet 512 gig model will set you back fully $700, though you’ll have until early next year to save up for that one.

Still though, it’s a good step in the right direction, though it’ll have quite a ways to go before it’s on par with a proper hard drive. But what do you guys think about all this? Figure you’ll be interested in one of Plextor’s new solid state drives to keep your data safe? Or do you think you can do better buying a set of hard drives for the same price? No matter what you think, we want to hear from you down in the comments section below!