The Plextor M3 looks exactly the same as the previous model the M2. The new drive also supports SATA 3 but it's now a lot more affordable, costing just around $1.40 per gigabyte, compared with the $1.80 of the previous model.
7.7
Plextor PX-M3
The Good
The 2.5-inch <b>Plextor M3 solid-state drive</b> (SSD) supports SATA 3 (6Gbps) and helps improve the overall performance of the host computer a great deal. The drive is also comparatively affordable, and comes with a drive bay adapter to also fit in any desktop computer.
The Bad
The Plextor M3's performance is slightly slower than some of its peers.
The Bottom Line
With good performance and friendly pricing, the Plextor M3 makes a great replacement drive for any laptop or desktop computers.
The only explanation for this is that it's also now slightly slower than the M2 in my testing, though still very fast, performing on par with many other recent SATA 3-based SSDs. That said, it offers a great boost to any computer that moving to a SSD from a regular hard drive.
If you have a computer that's using a hard drive as the boot drive, the Plextor M3 makes a good replacement.
Design and features