SanDisk Extreme Pro or Plextor M6Pro

[zaanton]

I plan to buy a new ssd with a capacity 240-256gb. I can buy SanDisk or Plextor in the same price. I've read almost all available reviews and I'm still not sure which one to choose. AnandTech's review of M6Pro will be a great help but there is no review of plextor. I am going to put ssd to notebook Probook 6465b (with only SATA II) which is used only for light workload (web browsing, texts editing).

 

[Charlie98]

I have a Plextor M5Pro and I like it very much. It was as fast as the much ballyhooed Samsung 840Pro (which I have, also) at the time I bought it (after my much ballyhooed Samsung 840Pro died.) I also have a Lite-On M6S, which is very close to the M6Pro, and it performs very well.

The downside to Plextor is they don't have a very comprehensive toolbox, if that kind of stuff is important to you. The upside is the 5-year warranty... if anything ever goes wrong.

Personally, I would take the Plextor over the SanDisk, but that is just my familiarity with Plextor. You didn't specify which SanDisk SSD you were looking at, SanDisk offers quite a few, with appropriate differences in performance. I would make sure you are comparing apples to apples.

For that matter, since your notebook is only SATA2, you don't really need the feature set of the 'Pro' model anyway, any mainstream SSD will suffice (the caveat being the warranty, if that is important to you.)

 

[zaanton]

You didn't specify which SanDisk SSD you were looking at, SanDisk offers quite a few, with appropriate differences in performance.

I specified that in the title of the thread: SanDisk Extreme Pro. I know that I on't really need "pro" SSD but I want to buy such a disk.

I wonder when the review of M6Pro will be published on AnandTech's website.

 

[Hellhammer]

I wonder when the review of M6Pro will be published on AnandTech's website.

There's a serious performance issue in the M6 Pro's firmware, so we've been waiting for the new firmware.

 

[zaanton]

Thanks for information. "We've been waitig" does it mean that you've got the new firmware and a review will be published soon?

 

[Hellhammer]

Thanks for information. "We've been waitig" does it mean that you've got the new firmware and a review will be published soon?

We are still waiting.

 

[zaanton]

Thanks for information. It's interesting, hope you will write about this issue in the review.