Earlier this year, Plextor unveiled its first PCIe 4.0 SSD, the M10P. Designed for avid gamers and audio-visual (AV) enthusiasts, this M.2 form factor drive is powered by Innogrit’s Rainier (IG5236) controller and is available with up to 2TB of Kioxia’s 96-layer BiCS4 3D NAND flash. The M10P is also equipped with an ultra-fast PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe 1.4 interface and features support for Plextor’s exclusive PlexNitro II cache acceleration and TrueProtect error correction technologies.
Like its predecessors, the M10P is offered in a number of different capacities and configurations. The drive is available by itself in the M.2 2280 form factor (M10PGN), with a small aluminum heatsink (M10PG) and as an HHHL add-in card (M10PY) that’s equipped with an extra large heatsink and RGB LED lights. For this review, Plextor sent us the 2TB version of the of the add-in card (M10PY), which is capable of delivering up to 7,000 MB/s sequential read and 5,000 MB/s sequential write speeds along with up to 650,000 random read and 550,000 random write IOPS.
