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Plextor

Consumer electronics brand

Plextor (styled PLEXTOR) (Chinese: 浦科特; Japanese: プレクスター) is a Taiwanese (formerly Japanese) consumer electronics brand, best known for solid-state drives and optical disc drives.2 It ceased to exist in 2024.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1985Founded1

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Plextor (styled PLEXTOR) (Chinese: 浦科特; Japanese: プレクスター) is a Taiwanese (formerly Japanese) consumer electronics brand, best known for solid-state drives and optical disc drives.2

Products and brands

  • software

Listed on Wikidata.1

Plextor introduced its first solid state drives, the M1 SSD series available in 64 GB and 128 GB capacities. The M2 Series followed, which they claimed to be the first SATA 3 SSD available at the time. In October 2011, Plextor announced the M2P Series with increased performance.

In December 2011 and January 2012, Plextor released the M3 and M3 Pro Series in 64 to 512 GB capacities. Similar to its predecessor, the M3 is a SATA 6 Gbit/s interface with a Marvell chip set. New, is the 24 nm Toggle NAND Flash (instead of 32 nm Toggle NAND Flash used for the M1, M2, and M2P).

From Wikipedia’s article on Plextor, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

  1. 2024Dissolved Dissolved1
  2. 1985Founded Founded1

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