Lexar NQ100 2.5” SATA III (6Gb_s) SSD 💾 Can this Value SSD give a Samsung Evo a run for its money

**Article: Full Review of Lexar NQ100 2.5" Solid State Drive**

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### Introduction

Hello everyone! It's Phil from Tefertex here today. We’re going to be taking a look at this Lexar NQ100, which is a 2.5-inch solid state drive (SSD). The retail price for these SSDs is roughly around $29.99, but prices may vary depending on the size you choose. If you're interested in purchasing one, make sure to check out the link provided in the description below. Let’s dive into this review!

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### Lexar NQ100 Overview

The Lexar NQ100 is an SSD that uses QLC NAND flash technology. It’s important not to confuse it with Lexar's other model, the NS100, which uses TLC NAND flash. This is the NQ model, so keep that in mind when considering your purchase.

The drive itself is a 2.5-inch SATA SSD, and we’re looking at the 240GB version for this review. The packaging is straightforward—a blue box with some paperwork inside. The SSD has blue inserts on it, along with arrows indicating its features on the sides and back. On the back, you’ll find the serial number and read speed listed as up to 550 megabytes per second (MB/s).

One thing we noticed right away is that there’s no mention of the write speed on the packaging or on the drive itself. While we’re not sure why Lexar decided not to include this information, it could be a point of concern for potential buyers. After doing some quick research on Lexar's website, we couldn’t find any clear indication of the write speed either. This seems odd, especially since we discovered during testing that the write speed is actually quite good.

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### Packaging and Unboxing

Inside the box, you’ll find the SSD itself along with a significant amount of paperwork. To be honest, there’s quite a bit of documentation here, which makes us wonder why Lexar doesn’t opt for a QR code on the packaging instead. This would not only save paper but also streamline the process of accessing manuals and warranty information.

The SSD is simple enough—there’s no fancy metal casing; it's just a gray plastic box with "Lexar" printed on it. The backside of the drive is equally unremarkable, with just some model numbers, serial codes, and warranty stickers. When you open up the packaging, you can see the controller and memory chips inside. It’s pretty straightforward stuff, but if you’re into detailed specifications or want to verify the components, this might be useful for you.

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### Testing the Lexar NQ100

We decided to put the Lexar NQ100 through some rigorous testing to get a better idea of its performance. Using CrystalDiskMark, we found that the read speed averaged around 537 MB/s, which is close to the advertised 550 MB/s listed on the box. This is impressive for an entry-level SSD, so we’re not complaining about the read speed here.

However, when it comes to write speeds, Lexar hasn’t provided any information on the packaging or website. During our testing with CrystalDiskMark and ATTO, we found that the write speed averaged around 505 MB/s, with some runs even hitting nearly 510 MB/s. This is actually quite a solid performance for an SSD in this price range.

We decided to test the drive further by copying a folder of approximately 42.5GB with over 3,000 files onto the SSD. Initially, the speed was slow due to the large number of small files, but once it got to the bigger files, it really started to shine, averaging around 450-460 MB/s during the transfer.

To ensure an accurate comparison, we also tested the drive in reverse—copying data from another location onto the Lexar NQ100. After renaming the file and moving it to a different directory, we saw similar performance, with speeds averaging around 450-460 MB/s for large files.

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### Comparisons and Performance

All testing was conducted on the same machine using the same cables, components, software, and operating system version. This setup ensures that no external factors could skew the results in favor of one drive over another.

When compared to other drives like the PNY SSDs and Team GX1 models, the Lexar NQ100 held its own pretty well. It performed slightly better than some of its competitors, particularly in write speed tests, which came in at 509 MB/s using ATTO. Even though it’s a more affordable option compared to the NS100 (Lexar's higher-end model), the NQ100 doesn’t fall too far behind in terms of performance.

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### Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Overall, we’re pretty impressed with the Lexar NQ100. It’s a decent value SSD from a trusted brand, and it delivers solid performance for its price. While it may not have all the bells and whistles that more expensive SSDs offer (like TRIM support or additional software), it gets the job done efficiently.

That said, we do have one major gripe: Lexar’s decision to omit the write speed from both the packaging and their website is puzzling. The write speed here is actually quite good—at over 500 MB/s—which is something worth shouting about. By not providing this information upfront, they might be missing out on potential sales.

In conclusion, we would highly recommend the Lexar NQ100 to anyone looking for an affordable and reliable SSD. Just keep in mind that it’s a value-oriented drive, so don’t expect enterprise-level features or performance. If you can snag one at a good price, there’s no reason not to go for it.

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Phil from Tefertex out! Thanks for watching, and stay tuned for more reviews and tech content soon.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone phil from tefertex here today we're going to be looking at this from alexa it's the nq100 two and a half inch solid state drive the retail price of these is roughly around about 29.99 but obviously different sizes have different prices but if you're interested in purchasing this click the link in the description just below okay so let's have a look at this lexar nq 100 which uses qlc nand flash it's unlike the ns 100 which uses this tlc none flash not to get them mixed up but this is the nq model not the n s model okay so it's a two and a half inch saturn drive six gigabyte seconds ssd we're looking at the 240 gigabyte version that's the one we've got sent packaging blue box you can see the ssd's got little blue inserts on there like arrows tells you the stuff on the side on the back as well you've got the serial number in there that looks like the drive itself and it tells you the read speed up to 550 megabytes per second it says nothing about the right speed let me have a closer look no unless i'm blind it doesn't mention the right speed on there i've had a quick look at the website and i don't see anything regarding the right speed on there either which can potentially be a bad thing if they're not wanting you to know how fast or should i say how slow the right speed is but let's wait till the testing because i've done a few tests on the ssds in the past where they haven't put the right speeds on and they've been pretty good and then we've also had the opposites so let's wait and see until the testing which you'll see towards the end of the review now otherwise that's pretty much it for the box so let's open it up and have a look what we've got inside okay so this is what's inside the box believe it or not you've got a solid state drive and you've also got a bit of paperwork when i say a bit of paperwork it's quite a bit of paperwork so why you'd need all that i don't know why they don't just put a qr code on the box and then it'll take you to your language uh selection and then you can choose the to look at the manual warranty informations i don't know a lot of manufacturers are doing that these days saves the environment as well saves them money because they don't have to go through all this paperwork but again that's up to them so let's have a look at the ssd itself as you can see it says lexa on the front solid state drive obviously it's got these blue arrows otherwise it's a gray box plastic not metal then on the back again it's a gray box not much to see to be honest with you other than the model number serial numbers you've got a couple of warranty stickers there and the connection there now let's open it up and have a look what's inside the plastic box okay so this is what you've got inside the box that's for anyone who is interested so there's not a lot of information on there there are a few model numbers and stuff so if you did want to look this up you can again sorry for the camera the light shines off and the writing on these things are never the best anyway but it gives you a rough idea and there's also a chip on the back as well so it gives you there you go a rough idea so that's pretty much it i'm guessing that's your controller and then you've got your memory chips there and then obviously when they want to make it bigger than stick on more chips on uh pretty straightforward really but again that's up to you if that means anything to you i do know a lot of you like searching up model number serial numbers and all this and the other online okay so down to testing as you can see here that we've got read speeds of roughly 560 megabytes per second using crystal disk mark which is a pretty good score but if you actually look at the results on ato we're getting about 537 average amount you've got well 550 so that's pretty good score it's what it says it gets on the box so i've got nothing to complain about there what i do have to complain about is the right speed not that it's bad it's that lexar decide not to publish the right speed on the box or on their website or at least nowhere obvious let's put it that way the right speed we're getting is 505 megabytes per second using crystal disk mark and using ato we're getting up to nearly 510 that is actually a pretty good result so why they're not putting on the box is beyond me generally if you see an ssd for sale and it's got the read speed on it and you think it's good and then it doesn't mention the right speed you expect it to be bad for example it's like going out and buying a car and saying yeah you can do 150 miles an hour but not telling anyone what the naught 60 speed is it just seems a little bit strange so alexa i don't know why you haven't but please put the right speeds on the box it is something people need to know just like when they're buying your sd cards and stuff like that people need to know the read and write speed now what we're going to do is copy this folder called test copy on the desktop onto the solid state drive and as you can see here it's basically 42 and a half gigs with over 3000 files there so we're going to copy that over and this is going to test the right speed because we're copying the information and writing it to the lexar ssd at the beginning of the testing you will find that the files do copy a lot slower because there are lots of little files but when it gets to the big files you will find the speed does speed up and as you can see here is averaging around about that 450 460 megabytes per second now we're going to basically do exactly the same thing but instead going the other way so we're going to rename the file first of all so we're going to call it test copy 1 for example or whatever as long as it's something different we're going to say test 999 we're going to copy it from there and actually paste it into a completely different place on the machine that makes sure that there's no caching issues or anything like that where the machine already thinks it's there and hence doesn't really copy it from the ssd for example so we're going to do basically the same test so this is checking the read speed and as you can see here again when it's doing the lots of little files it goes a little bit slower so 40 50 60 megabytes per second but as soon as it does the large files we're going at 470 megabytes per second okay so comparisons first of all all testing was done on the same machine using the same cables same components same software same version of windows same updates and so forth so nothing could be skewiff or different or be accused of anything was biased in one's favor or the other but as you can see here the read speed it performs the best on the table which is surprising considering it is a value drive again here it performs very well on the right tests it's not the best on there but not far behind the ns 100 which is the bigger brother of this drive but it still performs better than for example the pny drive and the team gx1 so it performs pretty well all together now on to the right or should i say the read tests again but with ato this time and as you can see it actually performs better than every drive out there including its bigger brother which is quite surprising considering it's the cheaper drive of the two but it does perform very well again as i said beating out all the competition but again very little between all of them on this next test we use ato again and this is the right speed and as you can see here the right speed 509 megabytes per second which is sort of mid table but it still performs slightly better than the ns100 which is this bigger brother but again all these tests as you can say see they are very close between each of them if you would notice any difference in reality you probably wouldn't so in conclusion we've got a decent value solid state drive from a brand that people actually know and can trust obviously lexa negatives well they don't necessarily need the paperwork which is a little bit niggly they could put a qr code on there but the biggest thing i've got to complain about it's not really from our point of view it's from theirs because they're not going to sell as many items because they're not in the right speed on the box because the write speed is actually pretty good at over 500 megabytes per second some value drives may only do around about 350 megabytes per second on the right so when it's doing 500 it's something to shout about but they're sort of hiding it for some reason or at least making it difficult to find because i don't see any mention on their website or on the box or packaging or anything like that what the right speed actually is so overall would i recommend you go out and buy this yes i would highly recommend you would purchase something like this this is a value ssd though so bear in mind it won't have all the trims and stuff like that what you might get with some more expensive ones like added software and stuff like that but for the price if you can get it at a good price then i can't see a reason not to get it again why the hide the speeds and max speeds is unknown to me it's like a ferrari making a brand new car and not telling anyone what speed it can go what's the point in that everyone wants to know what speed it goes especially when it's good if it was bad then i could probably understand them hiding them but when it's good it's a little bit daft so would i recommend this yes i would i'd highly recommend it youhi everyone phil from tefertex here today we're going to be looking at this from alexa it's the nq100 two and a half inch solid state drive the retail price of these is roughly around about 29.99 but obviously different sizes have different prices but if you're interested in purchasing this click the link in the description just below okay so let's have a look at this lexar nq 100 which uses qlc nand flash it's unlike the ns 100 which uses this tlc none flash not to get them mixed up but this is the nq model not the n s model okay so it's a two and a half inch saturn drive six gigabyte seconds ssd we're looking at the 240 gigabyte version that's the one we've got sent packaging blue box you can see the ssd's got little blue inserts on there like arrows tells you the stuff on the side on the back as well you've got the serial number in there that looks like the drive itself and it tells you the read speed up to 550 megabytes per second it says nothing about the right speed let me have a closer look no unless i'm blind it doesn't mention the right speed on there i've had a quick look at the website and i don't see anything regarding the right speed on there either which can potentially be a bad thing if they're not wanting you to know how fast or should i say how slow the right speed is but let's wait till the testing because i've done a few tests on the ssds in the past where they haven't put the right speeds on and they've been pretty good and then we've also had the opposites so let's wait and see until the testing which you'll see towards the end of the review now otherwise that's pretty much it for the box so let's open it up and have a look what we've got inside okay so this is what's inside the box believe it or not you've got a solid state drive and you've also got a bit of paperwork when i say a bit of paperwork it's quite a bit of paperwork so why you'd need all that i don't know why they don't just put a qr code on the box and then it'll take you to your language uh selection and then you can choose the to look at the manual warranty informations i don't know a lot of manufacturers are doing that these days saves the environment as well saves them money because they don't have to go through all this paperwork but again that's up to them so let's have a look at the ssd itself as you can see it says lexa on the front solid state drive obviously it's got these blue arrows otherwise it's a gray box plastic not metal then on the back again it's a gray box not much to see to be honest with you other than the model number serial numbers you've got a couple of warranty stickers there and the connection there now let's open it up and have a look what's inside the plastic box okay so this is what you've got inside the box that's for anyone who is interested so there's not a lot of information on there there are a few model numbers and stuff so if you did want to look this up you can again sorry for the camera the light shines off and the writing on these things are never the best anyway but it gives you a rough idea and there's also a chip on the back as well so it gives you there you go a rough idea so that's pretty much it i'm guessing that's your controller and then you've got your memory chips there and then obviously when they want to make it bigger than stick on more chips on uh pretty straightforward really but again that's up to you if that means anything to you i do know a lot of you like searching up model number serial numbers and all this and the other online okay so down to testing as you can see here that we've got read speeds of roughly 560 megabytes per second using crystal disk mark which is a pretty good score but if you actually look at the results on ato we're getting about 537 average amount you've got well 550 so that's pretty good score it's what it says it gets on the box so i've got nothing to complain about there what i do have to complain about is the right speed not that it's bad it's that lexar decide not to publish the right speed on the box or on their website or at least nowhere obvious let's put it that way the right speed we're getting is 505 megabytes per second using crystal disk mark and using ato we're getting up to nearly 510 that is actually a pretty good result so why they're not putting on the box is beyond me generally if you see an ssd for sale and it's got the read speed on it and you think it's good and then it doesn't mention the right speed you expect it to be bad for example it's like going out and buying a car and saying yeah you can do 150 miles an hour but not telling anyone what the naught 60 speed is it just seems a little bit strange so alexa i don't know why you haven't but please put the right speeds on the box it is something people need to know just like when they're buying your sd cards and stuff like that people need to know the read and write speed now what we're going to do is copy this folder called test copy on the desktop onto the solid state drive and as you can see here it's basically 42 and a half gigs with over 3000 files there so we're going to copy that over and this is going to test the right speed because we're copying the information and writing it to the lexar ssd at the beginning of the testing you will find that the files do copy a lot slower because there are lots of little files but when it gets to the big files you will find the speed does speed up and as you can see here is averaging around about that 450 460 megabytes per second now we're going to basically do exactly the same thing but instead going the other way so we're going to rename the file first of all so we're going to call it test copy 1 for example or whatever as long as it's something different we're going to say test 999 we're going to copy it from there and actually paste it into a completely different place on the machine that makes sure that there's no caching issues or anything like that where the machine already thinks it's there and hence doesn't really copy it from the ssd for example so we're going to do basically the same test so this is checking the read speed and as you can see here again when it's doing the lots of little files it goes a little bit slower so 40 50 60 megabytes per second but as soon as it does the large files we're going at 470 megabytes per second okay so comparisons first of all all testing was done on the same machine using the same cables same components same software same version of windows same updates and so forth so nothing could be skewiff or different or be accused of anything was biased in one's favor or the other but as you can see here the read speed it performs the best on the table which is surprising considering it is a value drive again here it performs very well on the right tests it's not the best on there but not far behind the ns 100 which is the bigger brother of this drive but it still performs better than for example the pny drive and the team gx1 so it performs pretty well all together now on to the right or should i say the read tests again but with ato this time and as you can see it actually performs better than every drive out there including its bigger brother which is quite surprising considering it's the cheaper drive of the two but it does perform very well again as i said beating out all the competition but again very little between all of them on this next test we use ato again and this is the right speed and as you can see here the right speed 509 megabytes per second which is sort of mid table but it still performs slightly better than the ns100 which is this bigger brother but again all these tests as you can say see they are very close between each of them if you would notice any difference in reality you probably wouldn't so in conclusion we've got a decent value solid state drive from a brand that people actually know and can trust obviously lexa negatives well they don't necessarily need the paperwork which is a little bit niggly they could put a qr code on there but the biggest thing i've got to complain about it's not really from our point of view it's from theirs because they're not going to sell as many items because they're not in the right speed on the box because the write speed is actually pretty good at over 500 megabytes per second some value drives may only do around about 350 megabytes per second on the right so when it's doing 500 it's something to shout about but they're sort of hiding it for some reason or at least making it difficult to find because i don't see any mention on their website or on the box or packaging or anything like that what the right speed actually is so overall would i recommend you go out and buy this yes i would highly recommend you would purchase something like this this is a value ssd though so bear in mind it won't have all the trims and stuff like that what you might get with some more expensive ones like added software and stuff like that but for the price if you can get it at a good price then i can't see a reason not to get it again why the hide the speeds and max speeds is unknown to me it's like a ferrari making a brand new car and not telling anyone what speed it can go what's the point in that everyone wants to know what speed it goes especially when it's good if it was bad then i could probably understand them hiding them but when it's good it's a little bit daft so would i recommend this yes i would i'd highly recommend it you\n"