**Lexar SSD Review: A Budget-Friendly Option with Surprising Performance**

The Lexar SSD is a 9700KF processor-based drive that boasts an impressive list of features, including 16GB of memory and a GeForce 1060 graphics card. In this review, we'll put the Lexar SSD to the test and see how it compares to other high-end drives on the market.

**Testing Setup**

For our testing, we used the same machine with the same port to ensure consistency in our results. We also disconnected the machine from the internet to eliminate any software variations that may affect the tests. This setup allowed us to perform a range of tests, including crystal disk mark, read speed, write speed, and real-world copy and paste tests.

**Crystal Disk Mark Test**

We started with the crystal disk mark test, which measures the sequential read and write speeds of an SSD. The Lexar SSD scored 2,070 MB/s in the read test, placing it behind the Samsung 970 EVO Plus (which had a score of 2,100 MB/s) but ahead of other drives like the Corsair MP500 (2,030 MB/s) and Kingston Fury Renzo (1,900 MB/s). In the write test, the Lexar SSD scored 2,070 MB/s as well, beating out the Corsair MP500 (1,980 MB/s), Samsung 970 EVO Plus (1,960 MB/s), and Kingston Fury Renzo (1,830 MB/s).

**Real-World Performance**

In our real-world performance tests, we copied data from one drive to another using both crystal disk mark and our own proprietary testing software. The results were surprising: the Lexar SSD came out on top in these tests, beating out even the faster Corsair MP500.

**Temperature Testing**

One area where the Lexar SSD lags behind its competitors is in temperature performance. During our testing, we noticed that the Lexar SSD came out slightly hotter than other drives on the market. However, this may not be a significant issue for most users, as it's unlikely to impact everyday use.

**Conclusion**

Overall, we're impressed with the Lexar SSD's performance and value. While it may not match the top-end performance of more expensive drives like the Samsung 970 EVO Plus or Corsair MP500, its synthetic test scores are still impressive. In real-world tests, however, the Lexar SSD excelled, beating out even faster drives in our copy and paste tests.

**What's Missing**

One area where the Lexar SSD falls short is in software features. Unlike some other high-end SSDs, which come with built-in cloning facilities and drive health monitoring tools, the Lexar SSD lacks these features. However, for most users, this won't be a significant issue.

In conclusion, we highly recommend the Lexar SSD as a budget-friendly option that still delivers impressive performance. Its lower price point compared to more expensive drives like the Samsung 970 EVO Plus makes it an attractive choice for those looking for high-performance without breaking the bank.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone today we're going to be looking at this from Alexa is an nm6 1-0 nvme based solid-state drive with a maximum read speed of 2000 100 megabytes per second you okay so we're having a look at the Lexar nm6 1-0 it's an m dot 2 2 2 8 0 PCIe gen3 x 4 nvme SSD yeah it's a bit of a mouthful saying all that but basically 2 2 8 0 is basically the size of the socket it fits in it's an m-type 2 socket Gen 3 times 4 basically means it will fit in a generation free socket which generally most of them out at the moment or old generation free you do get some anyway nvme basically means that it's a fast based solid-state drive rather than a SATA based solid-state drive and the key caught on here is slightly different the speed of this is rated at all they say is to Ferrell's and 100 megabytes per second that's the read speed and the write speed is 1600 megabytes per second they do have free versions available they have a 250 gigabyte version which does have the same read speed but it's only got a 1200 mega bericht write speed and then you've got the 500 gigabyte which this one is as well as a 1 terabyte which have both got the two thousand one hundred megabytes per second read and 1600 megabytes right the box is I'm guessing they're all pretty much the same this one's got stickers 500 gigabytes I'm guessing they use the same box and then just put a different number on depending on the physical size you can see it says free beam and on there an nvme 1.3 the Box plane on the bottom size basically just says what it says in the front on the back it tells you on there the speeds of running up to there which we've already said 2100 bags per second then you've got all your different languages and so forth and barcodes and the states are free year warranty on there as well ok so that's all you get in the Box you get paperwork there which is basically a quick installation direct and warranty information is very basic it's multiple so there's only actually fall little fold out which are in English but it's pretty generic stuff to be honest with you you've got the SSD itself there's no software inside the box bear in mind software it doesn't mention it on the box or in the manual or not that I can see but if you go on to their website there is a page called supports and then downloads and then you click on SSD and there are several tools on there which I'm presuming you can use on this one's called the Lexile data safe you've got a Windows and Mac version you've got an SSD - an optimized tool and then you've got a data vault a Mac and a Windows installation on there as well it doesn't tell you much about what they do or anything like that we'll have a look about in a few minutes let's have a look at that SSD so the SSD looks a little bit different than it does on the box as you can see the box there and SSD their main reason is that big sticker was over the top of the whole thing to be honest with you I'm not sure why they have them on the top they should stick them on the bottom in all honesty that way you can see it know if you put the heatsink it's on top of it for any reason it gives it better contacts and I'm not a fan with putting stickers across the top of SSDs on there it just tells you basically the what is the serial number and that's about it and you can see one or two little chips on there not much on the back it's pretty plain there's just a QR code in the corner otherwise that's pretty much it just to take off the sticker so that's what the SSD looks like without the stick a little bit more likely than the box apart from on the box these chips just don't have the lexo written on them on the actual chip it does not but all wise it looks pretty much identical to what's on the box so don't test them the full description of the machine we have used is in the description so if you want to read more about that feel free but in basics it's a 9 700 KF processor 16 gig of memory geforce 1060 graphics card all tests are done using the same machine we even use exactly the same port on the machine to do all the tests on top of that the machine is not connected to the Internet so there is different variations in the software so the software is exactly the same version for all the tests there's no windows updates installed there's no additional software installed on that specific machine so for the testing machine everything is identical for every single test we do okay so the first test we do is crystal disk mark then we check the read speed and as you can see here the like summon is just over 2000 and 70 megabytes per second so as a bit behind the course or in the Samsung but still a lot faster than the PM nine six one the Patriots Gorch gigabyte and Kingston and so forth so it was actually performing pretty well they gain in this test we use crystal dis mark as well but we'll check the write speed and this is where the let's are actually performs pretty well and actually beats the coarser MP 500 by a small margin but it still beats it and remember the lexer only has a recommended retail price of around about 83 84 pounds compared to over a hundred pill for the coarser and a hundred and sixty pounds for the Samsung on this test were using our cell and gain we check in the read speed the Lexar does pretty well nearly 2,000 megabytes per second a little bit slower than it's fated 2100 the coarser and Samsung are at top but it still manages to beat office likes of the Patriots coach as well as gigabyte SSD again we use a toe in this test this is the right speed and as you can see here the Alexa is not that far behind the corset and the Samsung yeah there is a bit there but would you actually notice it there's another thing and they came the price is far cheaper it's nearly half the price of the Samsung which is saying something really in this test which at the average temperature over 30 minutes on a full load that means it's transferring stuff constantly the lakes are did come out a little bit hotter than the rest of the ones on the market but the only barrier margin em would it make any difference the machine and no but this one does not come with a heat seekers standard West the others on the market do this is a real live test so copying and pasting onto the lexo and corsair drives to see which actually works out faster in a real life situation and as you can see here the LexA is winning with the right test and now what we're going to do is do a retest so that means we're going to copy the information back from the drawings on to the other drive and see how long it takes and as you can see here they are both performing pretty well but the legs are still beating it again on the synthetic tests most of the time the Corsair actually wins but in reality when using it it looks like the LexA does actually have the edge surprisingly so in conclusion water recommend using this basic answer is yes why not it's half the price of the Samsung performance okay is a little bit beyond the Samsung Evo's and pro range but saying that is still a very fast SSD and in reality would you notice the difference especially if you're going from a hard drive or if you're going from a traditional satyr based SS ding what this drive is missing is software there is no cloning facility so you can't clone from one drive to another which is unfortunate there is an SSD - which basically is a piece of software it tells you what the health of the drivers you can also do like a safe of rays of the actual drive as well but otherwise that's pretty much it it performs pretty much as it says on the box somehow it outperforms that MP 500 from cosa even though in the synthetic tests the Corsair wins but in actual reality when doing copy and paste tests believe it or not the Lexar wins so take that we're a pinch of salt made different on everyone's machine but it's still a really good performance specially if it's something which is a lot cheaper so I would highly recommend this producthi everyone today we're going to be looking at this from Alexa is an nm6 1-0 nvme based solid-state drive with a maximum read speed of 2000 100 megabytes per second you okay so we're having a look at the Lexar nm6 1-0 it's an m dot 2 2 2 8 0 PCIe gen3 x 4 nvme SSD yeah it's a bit of a mouthful saying all that but basically 2 2 8 0 is basically the size of the socket it fits in it's an m-type 2 socket Gen 3 times 4 basically means it will fit in a generation free socket which generally most of them out at the moment or old generation free you do get some anyway nvme basically means that it's a fast based solid-state drive rather than a SATA based solid-state drive and the key caught on here is slightly different the speed of this is rated at all they say is to Ferrell's and 100 megabytes per second that's the read speed and the write speed is 1600 megabytes per second they do have free versions available they have a 250 gigabyte version which does have the same read speed but it's only got a 1200 mega bericht write speed and then you've got the 500 gigabyte which this one is as well as a 1 terabyte which have both got the two thousand one hundred megabytes per second read and 1600 megabytes right the box is I'm guessing they're all pretty much the same this one's got stickers 500 gigabytes I'm guessing they use the same box and then just put a different number on depending on the physical size you can see it says free beam and on there an nvme 1.3 the Box plane on the bottom size basically just says what it says in the front on the back it tells you on there the speeds of running up to there which we've already said 2100 bags per second then you've got all your different languages and so forth and barcodes and the states are free year warranty on there as well ok so that's all you get in the Box you get paperwork there which is basically a quick installation direct and warranty information is very basic it's multiple so there's only actually fall little fold out which are in English but it's pretty generic stuff to be honest with you you've got the SSD itself there's no software inside the box bear in mind software it doesn't mention it on the box or in the manual or not that I can see but if you go on to their website there is a page called supports and then downloads and then you click on SSD and there are several tools on there which I'm presuming you can use on this one's called the Lexile data safe you've got a Windows and Mac version you've got an SSD - an optimized tool and then you've got a data vault a Mac and a Windows installation on there as well it doesn't tell you much about what they do or anything like that we'll have a look about in a few minutes let's have a look at that SSD so the SSD looks a little bit different than it does on the box as you can see the box there and SSD their main reason is that big sticker was over the top of the whole thing to be honest with you I'm not sure why they have them on the top they should stick them on the bottom in all honesty that way you can see it know if you put the heatsink it's on top of it for any reason it gives it better contacts and I'm not a fan with putting stickers across the top of SSDs on there it just tells you basically the what is the serial number and that's about it and you can see one or two little chips on there not much on the back it's pretty plain there's just a QR code in the corner otherwise that's pretty much it just to take off the sticker so that's what the SSD looks like without the stick a little bit more likely than the box apart from on the box these chips just don't have the lexo written on them on the actual chip it does not but all wise it looks pretty much identical to what's on the box so don't test them the full description of the machine we have used is in the description so if you want to read more about that feel free but in basics it's a 9 700 KF processor 16 gig of memory geforce 1060 graphics card all tests are done using the same machine we even use exactly the same port on the machine to do all the tests on top of that the machine is not connected to the Internet so there is different variations in the software so the software is exactly the same version for all the tests there's no windows updates installed there's no additional software installed on that specific machine so for the testing machine everything is identical for every single test we do okay so the first test we do is crystal disk mark then we check the read speed and as you can see here the like summon is just over 2000 and 70 megabytes per second so as a bit behind the course or in the Samsung but still a lot faster than the PM nine six one the Patriots Gorch gigabyte and Kingston and so forth so it was actually performing pretty well they gain in this test we use crystal dis mark as well but we'll check the write speed and this is where the let's are actually performs pretty well and actually beats the coarser MP 500 by a small margin but it still beats it and remember the lexer only has a recommended retail price of around about 83 84 pounds compared to over a hundred pill for the coarser and a hundred and sixty pounds for the Samsung on this test were using our cell and gain we check in the read speed the Lexar does pretty well nearly 2,000 megabytes per second a little bit slower than it's fated 2100 the coarser and Samsung are at top but it still manages to beat office likes of the Patriots coach as well as gigabyte SSD again we use a toe in this test this is the right speed and as you can see here the Alexa is not that far behind the corset and the Samsung yeah there is a bit there but would you actually notice it there's another thing and they came the price is far cheaper it's nearly half the price of the Samsung which is saying something really in this test which at the average temperature over 30 minutes on a full load that means it's transferring stuff constantly the lakes are did come out a little bit hotter than the rest of the ones on the market but the only barrier margin em would it make any difference the machine and no but this one does not come with a heat seekers standard West the others on the market do this is a real live test so copying and pasting onto the lexo and corsair drives to see which actually works out faster in a real life situation and as you can see here the LexA is winning with the right test and now what we're going to do is do a retest so that means we're going to copy the information back from the drawings on to the other drive and see how long it takes and as you can see here they are both performing pretty well but the legs are still beating it again on the synthetic tests most of the time the Corsair actually wins but in reality when using it it looks like the LexA does actually have the edge surprisingly so in conclusion water recommend using this basic answer is yes why not it's half the price of the Samsung performance okay is a little bit beyond the Samsung Evo's and pro range but saying that is still a very fast SSD and in reality would you notice the difference especially if you're going from a hard drive or if you're going from a traditional satyr based SS ding what this drive is missing is software there is no cloning facility so you can't clone from one drive to another which is unfortunate there is an SSD - which basically is a piece of software it tells you what the health of the drivers you can also do like a safe of rays of the actual drive as well but otherwise that's pretty much it it performs pretty much as it says on the box somehow it outperforms that MP 500 from cosa even though in the synthetic tests the Corsair wins but in actual reality when doing copy and paste tests believe it or not the Lexar wins so take that we're a pinch of salt made different on everyone's machine but it's still a really good performance specially if it's something which is a lot cheaper so I would highly recommend this product\n"