1. PLEXTOR M5M Series
mSATA Solid State Drive
Sales kit version 20130116

2. Business potential for mSATA
• Growing market segment ultra-portable devices
• Stable price development
• Healthy margins
• Application for system builders (integration) and aftermarket (upgrade)
• Bundle opportunities with other components (motherboards, etc.)
(Actual size comparison)
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3. A compact size with a big performance
Height: 3.6 mm
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4. M5M Technical Sheet
• Form Factor: JEDEC MO-300 mSATA SSD
• Serial-ATA 6Gbps compatible with SATA 3Gbps & SATA 1.5Gbps
• Marvell 88SS9187
• Toshiba 19 nm Toggle NAND Flash
• Performance:
64GB 128GB 256GB
DRAM Cache 128MB DDR3 256MB DDR3 512MB DDR3
Sequential Read Speed (SATA 6Gb/s) Up to 540 MB/s Up to 540 MB/s Up to 540 MB/s
Sequential Write Speed (SATA 6Gb/s) Up to 160 MB/s Up to 320 MB/s Up to 430 MB/s
Random Read Speed (IOPS 4KB) Up to 73,000 Up to 80,000 Up to 79,000
Random Write Speed (IOPS 4KB) Up to 42,000 Up to 76,000 Up to 77,000
• Dimensions: 50.8mm x 29.8mm x 3.6 mm for ultra-slim notebook HDD
replacement
• Weight: 9g max.
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5. More advanced and reliable than others
Comparison Chart - M5M with Alternatives Samsung PM830 –
Plextor M5M - 256GB Crucial m4 - 256GB
256GB
Interface mSATA 6Gb/s mSATA 6Gb/s mSATA 6 Gb/s
Controller Marvell 9187 Marvell 9174 S4LJ204X01-Y040
DRAM Cache 512MB 256MB 256MB
Sequential Read 540 MB/s 500 MB/s 500 MB/s
Sequential Write 430 MB/s 260 MB/s 260 MB/s
Random Read 80K IOPS 45K IOPS 50K IOPS
Random Write 77K IOPS 50K IOPS 29K IOPS
MTBF 2.4 Million hrs 1.2 Million hrs 1.5 Million hrs
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6. For a faster and more responsive Notebook system…
Sleep mode –
Fast standby Power Saving Fast resume
100
1 sec
millisecond
0.001 0.2
Watt Power Use Watt Power Use
…with a longer battery life
Comparison Chart - M5M with conventional HDD Plextor M5M SSD Conventional HDD
Ready time 1 sec 4 sec 75%
Save Time
Resume from sleep mode 0.1 sec 0.5 sec 98%
Power use Standby 0.001 Watt 0.25 Watt 99%
0.2 Watt 2.5 Watt 92% Less Power
Power use Operation
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7. For a portable system offering the best of both Worlds
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8. Engineered for Intel Ultrabook Platform & Tablet type PCs
• Supports highly compact JEDEC MO-300 form factor
• Supports SATA Device Sleep standard (DEVSLP)
• Low power consumption for high energy efficiency
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9. Build & Upgrade possibilities for Desktop & Mini PC
• Compatible with modern mSATA motherboards
• Application as boot drive for OS & Software apps
• Low power consumption & less heath development
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10. High performance unaffected by long term usage
Controller Reliable
IC + Flash + Firmware
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11. Preventing performance slowdown
Dirty Drive state Non-01 state
Garbage collection affects SSD performance. Large uncompressible data files affect SSD
performance.
The Instant Restore Algorithm in the Plextor firmware
optimizes data write cycles to blocks and automatically Plextor SSD provide high speed performance without
cleans deleted data during the drive’s idle time. data compression.
This ensures a read and write performance in the dirty This ensures optimal performance with all types of
state similar as the clean state. data, even large complicated data files, such as audio
or video files.
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12. Rigid Testing during product design stage
48hr sustained read and write test
48hr •Two days continuous 4K file read / write test, zero error
pass requirement
4000 times Idle test – sleep and hibernation test
4000 • After 24 hrs. read & write SSD enters sleep (S3) mode
times and is woken after 5 minutes, repeated for hibernation
(S4) mode) , zero error pass requirement
250 times Power Cycle – cold and warm boot tests
250 times Power boot – cold and warm boot tests
• Continuous coldCycle and warm boot cycles 250 times,
•zero error pass requirementwarm boot cycles 250 times,
Continuous cold boot and
250 times zero error pass requirement
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13. Always 100% Plextor quality assurance
• Plextor takes care of product design and SSD build quality in-house
• All M5M units produced are subjected to 22 hours of testing in our Flexstar
chambers
• Bad Block management for preventing access to weaker data blocks
• Stress test to assure reliability
• Calculated meantime between failures (MTBF) of 2.4 million hours
• Minimized chances of DOA
• Lowest Annual Failure rates in the market
Bad Block Management:
Reliability Test:
1. 60 ℃ High Temperature for 22 hrs.
Sending 36.5 Terabyte of tests
2. Aging all weak blocks commands to hundreds of SSDs at
the same time in high temp.
3. The Bad Block algorithm prevents environment.
the controller from accessing these
marked blocks when used
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14. Quality backed by market leading service
Supported by 3 Years Warranty
European Hotline Support in 8 Languages
(EN, DE, ES, FR, GR, PL, IT, NL)
Plextool SSD Diagnostics software
Brand Interaction Platform:
SSD Zone Forum, Facebook, YouTube
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15. THANK YOU