Reviews - Plextor M5M 128GB mSATA SSD

[HEXUS]

Tiny in size and big on performance, the ultimate Ultrabook upgrade?

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[scaryjim]

But here's the obvious rub; this 'Ultrabook' features a regular SATA interface that will happily accept all 2.5in SSDs, matching the Plextor's performance, so there's really no reason to add mSATA unless you want to increase overall capacity.

Isn't there a lot of mileage in using an mSATA SSD for OS/programs, and a large mechanical drive for bulk storage? Most laptops don't come with 2 sata bays, so there's got to be a reasonable use case there, no?

[rabbid]

But here's the obvious rub; this 'Ultrabook' features a regular SATA interface that will happily accept all 2.5in SSDs, matching the Plextor's performance, so there's really no reason to add mSATA unless you want to increase overall capacity.

Isn't there a lot of mileage in using an mSATA SSD for OS/programs, and a large mechanical drive for bulk storage? Most laptops don't come with 2 sata bays, so there's got to be a reasonable use case there, no?

Indeed! It will be nice to see laptops coming with small msata ssd boot and large mechanical even 7200rpm drives for storage.

For those limited to one 2.5 bay and no msata etc, remember seagate did (still does?) a hybrid 7200rpm drive with a small ssd cache built in.

[noodles2k]

This review is useless, it shows the limitations of sata 2.0 and not the performance of the drive. It would be better to review this drive with an msata to sata adapter or a laptop with a 6GBps msata.

[Montala]

I agree with what noodles2k said above... a good little 'box' to test it in would have been one of the new Intel NUC's which do have a 6 Gbps interface.