Plextor targets gamers with '50 percent faster' SSD starting at €199 ($275)

It's been more than a year since we last covered Plextor's wares, but the company's been busy with the next

generation of its M-branded SSDs. For the first time, the range includes a premium PCIe option explicitly aimed at gamers, which promises much better speeds by side-stepping the SATA "bottleneck.

" This card, the M6e, starts at €199 ($275) for 128GB and tops out at €540 ($750) for 512GB, with claimed sequential reads/writes of up to 770/625 MB/s, and random reads/writes of up to 105k/100k IOPS. 

Plextor says that's a gain of around 50 percent compared to the sequential speeds you'd get from the regular SATA option, the M6S, but of course you're paying for that extra performance: The biggest 512GB M6S will set you back just €332 ($460), for example. 

We've been told to expect availability "very soon," but in the meantime you can check out some early reviews of the PCIe drive at the links below.