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Linus tech tips coverage of computex 2013 is powered by western digital our trusted gaming gear partner is corsair vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCIX calm hey guys we're here at the plextor booth I'm not sure how many of you watching actually watch the livestream but if you do you might know that we actually run a plextor m5 in our server that runs our forum so I'm kind of I have a feel a nice little personal attachment to plextor because I do use their drives in one it's something that I have to try and maintain and control at all points in time so when I came to the booth I asked if they had anything new and I expected maybe a new revision of the m5 or something like that but no they have a new m6 coming out it is so new that the chips don't actually even have labels on them they're using new toshiba chips that were announced a day or two ago but I don't have tons information on that this is going to come in 128 gigabytes 256 gigabytes and 512 gigabyte capacities it's very fast running at sequential writes up to five hundred forty megabytes per second and sequential reads up to 470 megabits per second on the on the large model but we'll probably get the two and a 56k by model which is running actually almost the same speeds I'm very excited to hopefully get one of these in and test them on my SSD testing bench line it up against all the other drives that we have and see exactly how fast it compares maybe I'm in for an upgrade on SSD for our server so we'll see at that point thanks for checking out our plextor content and make sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips for all of our computex content