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what is going on guys J here and every single day I get tons and tons and tons of messages from people asking me how they can make their computer faster but without breaking the bank I see messages from people saying they've got great motherboards great processors lots of RAM and a great GPU and they don't know what to do to just get that last bit of performance out of their computer and I think the answer to that is gonna be got an SSD bro now SSDs are one of those things that I think a lot of people have not really caught on to just how much bang for buck there is and how much you're gonna really speed up your system by considering going with a solid-state drive now solid-state drives have been dropping dramatically in price over the last 12 months in fact a couple of years ago most people would not have been able to afford even a small SSD around 128 gigabytes now today we're gonna be taking a look at the Plextor m6s this is a 256 gigabyte variant it is available in 128 256 and 512 Plextor you need to make a one terabyte version seriously everything's getting so cheap there's no reason not to have one terabyte get on that please now this does feature the true speed sustained high performance technology which is basically there that's what they're calling their firmware and we're going to talk about the specs real quick now the 256 gigabyte version has a read speed of up to 520 megabytes in sequential read a 412 402 a goal for an intregal byte that's that's a new that's actually a new terabyte it's a total byte 420 megabyte sequential write speed and it's got up to 90,000 write random reads for your eye ops of 4 KB that is pretty fast for a SATA Drive now this does get the best performance out of a SATA 3 6 gigabit per second port but it is also compatible with three gigabit per second and 1.5 gigabit per second but I definitely recommend hooking this thing up to a 6 gigabit per second on an Intel controller in fact we'll get a little bit more to that a little bit later this drive does feature a nice really attractive aluminum around a little mininum a little iminium if you're over across the pond case here it is a two hundred two hundred it's a two hundred inch form factor guys geez I am just not able to talk very good ER today now it is a two and a half inch form factor just like pretty much all SATA SSDs that are out there and it does have a very stylish aluminium aluminium aluminium I can't even say aluminum any more properly so many people from across a pond or like it's aluminium it isn't an aluminium we really Americans the aluminium yeah it is an aluminium shell on here very attractive it's most of the time it's not going to show but at least you guys know you have some bling in there and it does have of course your SATA power and your SATA 3 connector right there now it's not a whole lot to say about the looks of an SSD but I know what you guys want to know and you want to know how well this thing performs when I first hooked it up to my system behind me here in one of my hot swap drives I was having some very sporadic performance in fact the first bit of performance that I had was a about 250 megabyte by 250 megabyte read/write speed and sequential which was quite a bit lower than advertised so I immediately took a look at my connections and of course the hot swap drive I plugged it into was a three gigabit per second port make sure you have it in a six gigabit per second port guys most motherboards today have at least one or two or in my case six so I moved it over to a six gigabit per second port and I was only getting speeds of 386 sequential read by 276 megabyte sequential write and that was still much lower than advertised and I was scratching my head going what the heck is going on so I looked up and I looked up the BIOS and the manual of my z77 OC formula which is right there behind me and found out that I was actually running on the Marvell controller and it's recommended to run these guys on the Intel z 77 or newer chipset controller and once I did that our speeds went through the roof 532 megabyte sequential read by 460 megabyte sequential right now when it comes to the advertised speeds they advertise that the 256 megabyte for the 256 gigabyte model what is wrong with me here that's a super small SSD 256 K my model is capable of a 520 megabyte per second read by a 420 megabyte sequential right so we actually got faster than advertised speeds of course this was not the operating system drive it was just sitting there waiting to be read and reading and writing and doing all that kind of stuff so you guys can see it is extremely beneficial now I wanted to go ahead and see how this thing writes in a multimedia environment so I fired up dxtory to see how this thing handled DX Tory's live-streaming writing capability actually has a built-in benchmark well it will test how fast it can write to the drive in a gaming situation where its encoding and writing directly to the drive and we got a 442 megabyte per second multimedia right speed so guys we are definitely getting advertised speeds here with this Plextor m6s now if you guys want to really speed up your system and you want to do it very cost effective and you were not using an SSD I highly highly recommend the Plextor m6s the price comes in very very competitive the 256 gigabyte model might be a little bit small for some people especially when games like titanfall are taking over 50 gigabytes of space battlefield for taking well over 30 gigabytes of space yeah I do recommend getting a 512 megabyte if you can't afford it but at the very least getting yourself a 128 or 256 putting your operating system on there and getting a couple of your favorite games and programs on there you will be surprised at just how much your processor is being held back by the read/write speed of a standard hard drive to put things into perspective when we compared this Plextor em success in dxtory to standard Toshiba one terabyte 7200 rpm 32 megabyte cache drive it was getting just over a hundred and ten megabytes per second right speed versus four hundred and forty two of the SSD so you can see four times the speed of a standard traditional hard drive so guys if you want to speed up your systems and you are not running an SSD by far the quickest easiest most cost effective way to do that is to go out and get yourself an SSD now it's not going to actually make your frames per second and games any better but it is going to it is going to dramatically reduce the load times in fact on games like titanfall I'm usually the first one in there and waiting for everyone else to load it is just that fast so guys go and check out the Plextor m6x m6s links are down in the description as well as other links that you guys can use to help support channel Amazon links coupon codes for different sponsors and of course all of those things are to give you guys discounts when buying I don't really get any kickbacks from any of those affiliate codes it's just to save you guys some money which is what Jay is all about making you guys smart prosumers instead of being consumers and just making you guys love your PC's as much as I love mine don't forget guys I do have project skunk works that is still currently in the works and this long weekend with the 4th of July holiday coming up I'm going to be working on this bad boy and I hope to get as much bit done as possible and of course this Plextor drive is going to be making its way in to that bad boy so as always guys I hope you can see you in the next one follow on Twitter if you want to chat with me or hop on Facebook or Google+ or all of that multimedia stuff and as always I hope to see you guys in the next one