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Plextor 256GB M5 Pro SSD Benchmark

Using Crystal Disk Mark and stock firmware (just got it yesterday). Drive label says firmware 1.02. Formated at NTFS with default settings.

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 515.524 MB/s
Sequential Write : 440.763 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 395.459 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 429.231 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 31.083 MB/s [ 7588.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 69.657 MB/s [ 17006.0 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 152.370 MB/s [ 37199.7 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 158.093 MB/s [ 38597.0 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [J: 0.0% (0.1/238.3 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2013/07/25 17:13:52
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

After upgrade to latest firmware (1.05):

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0.1 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read :   528.983 MB/s
Sequential Write :   449.840 MB/s
Random Read 512KB :   411.411 MB/s
Random Write 512KB :   436.107 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) :    30.279 MB/s [  7392.4 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) :    60.589 MB/s [ 14792.2 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) :   221.475 MB/s [ 54071.0 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) :   208.997 MB/s [ 51024.7 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [J: 0.0% (0.1/238.3 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2013/07/25 17:41:03
OS : Windows 7 Home Premium Edition SP1 [6.1 Build 7601] (x64)

New firmware greatly improved queue depth of 32 (QD=32) performance.

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