Lexar NM610 500GB SSD Review

The PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark uses a wide-ranging set of real-world traces from popular applications and common tasks to fully test the performance of the fastest modern drives. The benchmark is designed to measure the performance of fast system drives using the SATA bus at the low end and devices connected via PCI Express at the high end.

The goal of the benchmark is to show meaningful real-world performance differences between fast storage technologies such as SATA, NVMe, and Intel’s Optane. The Full System Drive Benchmark uses 23 traces, running 3 passes with each trace. It typically takes an hour to run.

Traces used:
Booting Windows 10.
Adobe Acrobat – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Illustrator – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Premiere Pro – starting the application until usable.
Adobe Photoshop – starting the application until usable.
Battlefield V – starting the game until the main menu.
Call of Duty Black Ops 4 – starting the game until the main menu.
Overwatch – starting the game until main menu.
Using Adobe After Effects.
Using Microsoft Excel.
Using Adobe Illustrator.
Using Adobe InDesign.
Using Microsoft PowerPoint.
Using Adobe Photoshop (heavy use).
Using Adobe Photoshop (light use).
Copying 4 ISO image files, 20 GB in total, from a secondary drive to the target drive (write test).
Making a copy of the ISO files (read-write test).
Copying the ISO to a secondary drive (read test).
Copying 339 JPEG files, 2.37 GB in total, to the target drive (write test).
Making a copy of the JPEG files (read-write test).
Copying the JPEG files to another drive (read test).

Both Lexar drives are DRAM-less designs using 64-layer 3D TLC NAND. They fall way behind the Toshiba RC500 in the PCMark 10 Full System Drive benchmark, the Toshiba drive using 96-layer 3D TLC NAND together with a 512MB DDR4-2400MHz chip looking after caching duties.

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