The Plextor M6V (256GB) SSD Review

Idle Power Consumption

Many SATA drives are getting close to the limits of what our equipment can measure for power consumption. It's hard to build a meter than has sub-milliwatt accuracy and can withstand the high peak currents drawn by devices like high-performance PCIe drives. Our test rig can't measure the deepest power saving modes (DevSlp), but we can look for any red flags that the intermediate modes aren't working.

At this point in the review, it's obvious that the M6V has no trouble keeping power consumption down. There is technically room for improvement here, but not enough to matter.

TRIM Validation

A drive that didn't correctly implement the ATA TRIM command would be very surprising to find today, but it's a quick enough check. This test also demonstrates that, for better or worse, files that are deleted cannot be easily recovered.