CONCLUSION

   First of all i need to point out that we don't consider 128GB to be enough for most people, not even for just the OS and the software one may need to install and since we also knew that this model would not perform on par with the 256/512GB variants we did expect Plextor to send one of those instead. This wasn't possible unfortunately so do remember that when looking at the write performance of the 128GB model since it doesn't represent the ones offered by the two other members of the M6e Black Edition family. With this out of the way i can't say that we were very impressed with the overall performance of the drive. Sure it's faster than most SATA III based models currently (in read anyways) and that means quite a bit of course but considering that some PCIex drives surpass the 1000MB/s (1GB/s) mark we were hoping for more. The PlexTurbo cashing software delivers on that but as many of you may now much like Samsung’s RAPID the real-world benefits are not as great. The good news however is that if you happen to own a DDR4 based system you will get much higher numbers than the ones we did and thus you may benefit more from PlexTurbo making it worth "sacrificing" some of your systems memory.

   Some people consider paying a small premium over SATA models to get a PCIex based SSD as not "worth" it but having used such products for almost 4 years now i don't really agree with them. I do believe that for most people these models will not offer anything more than an SATA III based model would but for people looking to get the maximum out of their systems a PCIex based SSD is pretty much the best thing alongside a SAS based SSD which will probably cost a lot more if you add up the cost of an SAS compatible card. So at a current price tag of USD199.99 inside the EU (Newegg.com) and 180Euros inside the EU (Amazon.co.uk) the M6e Black Edition 128GB PCI Express SSD may not come cheap but it's almost worth every single penny (once again capacity is too low) and that's why it gets our Golden Award.

PROS

- Excellent Build Quality
- Very Good Performance Levels (Read)
- Design (For Some)
- AES 128/256 Hardware Encryption
- Supports TRIM
- 2.4 Million Hours MTBF
- PCIe Solution
- PlexTurbo Software
- 5 Years Warranty

CONS

- Price (For Some)
- Write Performance (128GB Model)