The Plextor M5 Pro comes sporting Marvell's new firmware and Toshiba's new NAND memory to deliver some seriously quick SSD speeds.

Burn and share disks or backup data from your tablet, phone and cameras without connecting to a PC

We looked at one of Plextor's first 6Gb/s rated drives last year (the PX-128M2S) and barely nine months later, the next generation is upon us in the shape of the M3 series.

Can this second generation SSD drive hold its own in a crowded market?

A drive burning DVDs at 18x would surely explode into a million pieces - or so we thought. Plextor's PX-760A certainly generates the sort of noise that would suggest such a catastrophe, but it's admirably shy of vibration.

A portable DVD drive like this one from Plextor has obvious advantages,even for desktop users. If you only need to burn DVDs once in a while,it makes sense to get a pocket-sized drive that you can slide into adrawer when you don't need it