More than a decade has passed since Parallel ATA was made redundant by SATA. Originally designed to provide a maximum throughput of 16MB/s, PATA was eventually upgraded to 133MB/s, which was plenty for a while. But as 2003 desktops were pumping 3GB/s of bandwidth between their system memory and processor, while graphics cards were exceeding 30GB/s, it became clear that hard drives were the weakest link of modern computers.
Unable to max the original SATA interface, conventional hard drives had little hope of tapping SATA 2.0's 300MB/s, much less SATA 3.0's 600MB/s, yet those speeds have already grown inadequate for the quickest flash drives. This brings us to SATA 3.2 and its ample 16Gb/s bandwidth, which is offered via SATA Express and SATA M.2 on Intel's new 9-series chipsets.
Following up on its M1 and M2 series, Plextor's new M6 range comes in the form of a regular 2.5" SATA drive (M6S), and mSATA drive (M6M) and a PCI Express/M.2 version (M6e). Today we're putting all three to the test.
Read: Plextor M6 SSD Series - SATA, mSATA and M.2 Drives Tested
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