Plextor announced the M7V series solid-state drive, the company's first TLC SSD product that surpasses the current TLC SSD's key technical limits, reaching a P/E cycle of up to 2,000 times. Plextor says it has managed to increase the Plextor M7V's lifetime as a TLC SDD through coupling the high grade components with its own firmware.

The M7V series applies the new generation Marvell control chip (Marvell 88SS1074B1), designed exclusively for TLC products, along with Toshiba's latest 15 nm process TLC NAND flash memory. It also applies multiple technologies developed exclusively by Plextor, including the tailor-made write acceleration technology PlexNitro, the Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) troubleshooting technology with three times the average rate, and PlexTurbo, a software that applies system memory to decrease the amount of reading and writing.

The result brings about the 2,000 times P/E cycle lifetime of the M7V series, 2 to 4 times as durable as a normal TLC SSD, providing the largest TBW (Total Bytes Written) for its users. Using the 512GB capacity version as an example, it has a TBW of 320TB.

The PlexTurbo software can apply the system's DRAM to accelerate the SSD's read and write efficiency, allowing the M7V that has a designed sequential read/write speed of 560/530 MB/s, random read/write speed of 98K/84K IOPS.

Apart from PlexTurbo, the M7V series can also use two other additional softwares, the PlexCompressor & PlexVault - PlexCompressor can compress files that have a low usage rate while not affecting the SSD's efficiency; PlexVault can set up an exclusive space for sensitive information by tapping on a few hot keys, providing privacy and security to the data.

The Plextor M7V Series Solid-State Drives is available in two standard specs - the 2.5 inch (PX-M7VC) and the M.2 2280 (PX-M7VG), with 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities.