[REVIEW] Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB

cloudwan — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:13:18 +0800

Introduction

In most of the South East Asia SSD market, Plextor is a company that is quite relatively unknown compared to other big name companies like OCZ, SanDisk, Micron, Samsung & Intel. This is quite surprising when their SSD’s are very well known in the US & European market for its superior performance & high reliability. Plextor has a few range of SSD in their inventory for the consumer market & enterprise market ranging from the M2P & M3 series to their current most top of the line M5 Pro series.

In this review, I will be reviewing the Plextor M5 Pro Xtreme 256GB which the folks from Build Technology Supply Sdn Bhd have been kindly enough given me a sample to take it for a spin through a series of benchmarks. The table below listed out some finer details of the M5 Pro Xtreme released by the manufacturer:

Packaging

The front of the M5 Pro Xtreme packaging really stands out among the dull monotone packaging that most of SSD manufacturers are using. With its electric blue metallic packaging it really does look fresh. The model brand numbers & capacity are easily read and understood.

The rear of the packaging listed out details like the warranty, supported file format, its specifications etc for those who are interested in it.

Rejoice for all slim ultrabook users who’s looking for an upgrade, the M5 Pro Xtreme is made with the 7mm height form factor in mind.

Some of the extra features according to Plextor that is integrated into their M5 Pro’s Xtreme SSD which is True Speed & True Protect. According to their website, the features helps by:
• True speed prevents the drastic performance drops seen in some SSD’s after intense or long-term usage.
• True protect ensures that data is stored and retrieved without error by using ECCs, Plextor firmware and robust data hold-out algorithm.

Opening the outer box packaging, you will be greeted with a rubber like foam packaging to protect the SSD drive itself for any knocks during transport and handling. On top of the foam lid is pasted with instructions and key of the NTI SSD Solution Suite for Plextor software for buyers to easily do backups and migration from their current drives & ssd. It’s a really nice bonus for any plextor buyers.

Inside the foam, creative use of space and arrangement is evident here where you can find all the included items in a nice tight packaging.

Inside the packaging you will receive:
• The SSD
• 3.5” Mounting Bracket
• The Screw Package
• Quick Installation Guide

Need Help! Lappy Slowdown!

cloudwan — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:35:17 +0800

Guys i really need some help here in figuring out a slowdown prob faced by my friend with her lappy..
Keep in mind that the lappy isn't with me right now, its still with her in Kelantan so the troubleshooting would mostly be done thru the phone..

Her lappy basic spec:
Acer Laptop
CPU: Turion64 1.6ghz
RAM: 512MB DDR2
HDD: 80GB HDD @ 2 Partition c: 40GB d: 40GB
GPU: ATI 1100 Builtin GPU
Sound: I donno
O/S: Windows XP Professional
A/V: Kaspersky Internet Security v7.0

Her hijack log:

Logfile of HijackThis v1.99.1
Scan saved at 10:36:38 PM, on 9/22/2008
Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600)
MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.5730.0013)

Running processes:
C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\spoolsv.exe
C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7DEBUG\MDM.EXE
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe
C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe
C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE
C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe
C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\CLI.EXE
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\cli.exe
C:\Program Files\FlashGet\flashget.exe
D:\Installer\fg676.exe
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe
C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe
C:\WINDOWS\hh.exe
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE
C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCleaner.exe
D:\Installer\HijackThis 1.99\hijackthis.exe

R0 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main,Start Page = http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
R1 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings,ProxyServer = 127.0.0.1:8580
R3 - URLSearchHook: Yahoo! Toolbar - {EF99BD32-C1FB-11D2-892F-0090271D4F88} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: Yahoo! Toolbar Helper - {02478D38-C3F9-4EFB-9B51-7695ECA05670} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: flashget urlcatch - {2F364306-AA45-47B5-9F9D-39A8B94E7EF7} - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\jccatch.dll
O2 - BHO: RealPlayer Download and Record Plugin for Internet Explorer - {3049C3E9-B461-4BC5-8870-4C09146192CA} - C:\Program Files\Real\RealPlayer\rpbrowserrecordplugin.dll
O2 - BHO: SSVHelper Class - {761497BB-D6F0-462C-B6EB-D4DAF1D92D43} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\ssv.dll
O2 - BHO: (no name) - {7E853D72-626A-48EC-A868-BA8D5E23E045} - (no file)
O2 - BHO: WebProtect - {B8D4A216-4582-4E5F-808D-8E50ACBDDEF1} - C:\WINDOWS\system32\WebProtect.dll
O2 - BHO: FlashGet GetFlash Class - {F156768E-81EF-470C-9057-481BA8380DBA} - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\getflash.dll
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [ATICCC] "C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\CLIStart.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [SynTPEnh] "C:\Program Files\Synaptics\SynTP\SynTPEnh.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AzMixerSel] "C:\Program Files\Realtek\InstallShield\AzMixerSel.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\Run: [AVP] "C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe"
O4 - HKLM\..\RunOnce: [AskPBar Uninstall] rundll32 C:\PROGRA~1\UNINST~1.DLL,O -2
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [ctfmon.exe] C:\WINDOWS\system32\ctfmon.exe
O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Rainlendar2] "C:\Program Files\Rainlendar2\Rainlendar2.exe"
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Download All with FlashGet - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\jc_all.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: &Download with FlashGet - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\jc_link.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: Add to Anti-Banner - C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\ie_banner_deny.htm
O8 - Extra context menu item: E&xport to Microsoft Excel - res://C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\EXCEL.EXE/3000
O9 - Extra button: (no name) - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Sun Java Console - {08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608501} - C:\Program Files\Java\jre1.6.0_05\bin\ssv.dll
O9 - Extra button: Web Anti-Virus statistics - {1F460357-8A94-4D71-9CA3-AA4ACF32ED8E} - C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\SCIEPlgn.dll
O9 - Extra button: Research - {92780B25-18CC-41C8-B9BE-3C9C571A8263} - C:\PROGRA~1\MICROS~2\OFFICE11\REFIEBAR.DLL
O9 - Extra button: FlashGet - {D6E814A0-E0C5-11d4-8D29-0050BA6940E3} - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\FlashGet.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: FlashGet - {D6E814A0-E0C5-11d4-8D29-0050BA6940E3} - C:\Program Files\FlashGet\FlashGet.exe
O9 - Extra button: Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O9 - Extra 'Tools' menuitem: Windows Messenger - {FB5F1910-F110-11d2-BB9E-00C04F795683} - C:\Program Files\Messenger\msmsgs.exe
O11 - Options group: [INTERNATIONAL] International*
O16 - DPF: {30528230-99f7-4bb4-88d8-fa1d4f56a2ab} (YInstStarter Class) - C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Common\yinsthelper.dll
O16 - DPF: {56762DEC-6B0D-4AB4-A8AD-989993B5D08B} - http://www.eset.eu/buxus/docs/OnlineScanner.cab
O16 - DPF: {9A9307A0-7DA4-4DAF-B042-5009F29E09E1} (ActiveScan Installer Class) - http://acs.pandasoftware.com/activescan/as5free/asinst.cab
O18 - Protocol: livecall - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O18 - Protocol: msnim - {828030A1-22C1-4009-854F-8E305202313F} - C:\PROGRA~1\MSNMES~1\MSGRAP~1.DLL
O20 - AppInit_DLLs: C:\PROGRA~1\KASPER~1\KASPER~2.0\adialhk.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: klogon - C:\WINDOWS\system32\klogon.dll
O20 - Winlogon Notify: WRNotifier - C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\WRLogonNTF.dll
O23 - Service: Ati HotKey Poller - ATI Technologies Inc. - C:\WINDOWS\system32\Ati2evxx.exe
O23 - Service: Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0 (AVP) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Kaspersky Lab\Kaspersky Internet Security 7.0\avp.exe" -r (file missing)
O23 - Service: Webroot Spy Sweeper Engine (WebrootSpySweeperService) - Webroot Software, Inc. - C:\Program Files\Webroot\Spy Sweeper\SpySweeper.exe

The lappy was working fine b4 this, just recently it started to exhibit slowdown probs like lagging when typing, unusually high CPU usage & ram usage..
Can u guys see any prob with her hijack log? I surely em not sure..
Help please for ur any insight.. Thanx..

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