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Plextor LLC is a leading developer and manufacturer of
high-performance digital media equipment for professionals, consumers and
enterprises. In 1990, Plextor established a U.S. operation in Silicon Valley
with dedicated sales force for serving North and South America. Since then, the
Plextor brand has been continually recognized as high-quality product, receiving
numerous awards for its optical drives. Plextor will continue to deliver
generations of award-winning products, including CD-R/RW, DVDR/RW, & Blu-ray
optical disk drives, digital video converters and multimedia products. The
Plextor brand of optical disc drives and multimedia products are owned by
Shinano Kenshi in Japan.
see also:-
Plextor
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com,
Plextor's SSD page
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what's the market for Plextor's PCIe SSD?
 Editor:-
April 7, 2014 - I asked Plextor's virtual
marketing representative in the US - Andrew Erickson at
Alaniz Marketing to tell me more
about Plextor's thinking about routes to market for their entry level (Gen2)
PCIe SSD market
offering - the
M6e.
He
said - "The M6e is marketed directly to consumers as an end-user upgrade
and mostly via newegg and major e-tailers."
Andrew went on to say
- "Plextor is definitely moving into the enterprise space and we're
expecting to see a couple of read intensive and multi-use ssd products later
this year. It sounds like some of the enterprise firmware advances may already
be evident in the M6e - though it's not being marketed in that way. I have seen
some Plextor drives sold in high end gaming rigs, but I'm not aware of current
plans to sell OEM at this time."
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editor's earlier comments:- February
2011 -
Plextor entered the SSD
market with a range of 2.5" SATA SSDs in March 2010 based on
SSD controllers from
Marvell.
When
Plextor signalled this intention in January 2010 the company said it
would like to achieve 10% market share in the
SSD notebook
market. I said at the time - "This is driven by the need (common to all
late market entrants) to make waves in the
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| Plextor's
M.2 PCIe SSD wins award at FMS |
Editor:- August 7, 2014 - Plextor today
announced
that its
M6e
- an M.2 PCIe SSD - has won Best of Show for most Innovative flash memory
technology at the Flash Memory
Summit.
The M6e SSD combines a multi-core
Marvell PCIe 9183
controller and Toshiba
toggle NAND flash with firmware developed by Plextor's in-house team. | | |
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| SSD Pricing -
where does all the money go? |
| SSDs are among the most
expensive computer hardware products you will ever buy and comprehending the
factors which determine SSD costs is often a confusing and irritating
process... |
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...which is not made any
easier when market prices for apparently identical capacity SSDs can vary more
than 50x to 1!
Why is that? ...read the article to
find out | | | |
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