Taipei, Taiwan, June 1, 2017 – PLEXTOR, a leading manufacturer of award-winning solid state drives (SSDs) and other high-performance digital storage devices for consumers, unveiled its new M8Se NVME SSD series. The global launch event being held at the Taipei International Convention Center (TICC) features a live gaming competition participated in by global internet celebrities. The event also highlights the power and performance of PLEXTOR SSD technologies in the PC gaming arena.

Unlike typical press conferences, PLEXTOR opts to live-stream the product launch, gathering gamers from around the world,broadcasting via social media and online platforms and aiming to reach over two million online viewers globally.

In an era inundated with social media craze and and massive content-sharing, PC industries has witnessed its re-birth from its Wintel-featuring and specs-driven days to reallocating heavily on the experiential need of its mainstream users. “PLEXTOR brings together advanced technologies and components to develop its NVME SSD product series with all types of optimized cache and debugging technologies for optimal data stability and security assurance, while pushing the barriers further on SSD product speeds.” said Fay Ho, Director at PLEXTOR Brand Division.

With a prestigious 2017 iF Design Award in its arsenal, the new M8Se SSD Series boasts of the following characteristics:

l  Innovative IndustrialDesign

l  Streamlined high-speed cooling technology

l  Toshiba’s mainstream NAND and LDPC error correction technology

The M8Se Series supports the latest generation of PCIe Gen 3 x4 NVMe ultra-fast interface to deliver the most amazing read-write speeds of up to 2,450/1,000 MB/s, and, random read-write speeds of up to 210,000/175,000 IOPS. The M8Se is certainly capable of elevating the overall PC performance, giving a powerful boost to various applications in commercial, entertainment and audio-visual computing.

PLEXTOR also showcases its upcoming next-generation M9Pe Series SSD concept which utilizes 64-layer 3D NAND flash, aimed at delivering technological breakthroughs for a wide range of consumer needs.