<div dir="ltr">Reviews: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-NS100-Solid-State-Drive-480GB/product-reviews/B07H6P59YS/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews">https://www.amazon.com/Lexar-NS100-Solid-State-Drive-480GB/product-reviews/B07H6P59YS/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_show_all_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews</a><div><br></div><div>Not fast, on par with other drives of similar price.</div><div>"Important
note up front: This is not the Lexar you might remember from a few
years ago. That brand shuttered operations and the name was sold to a
Chinese company called Longsys. Longsys is manufacturing this drive and
unfortunately doesn't provide much info as to what is actually inside of
it. It likely is running cheap TLC flash memory but that is merely
speculation.</div><span class="gmail-a-size-base gmail-review-text gmail-review-text-content"><span class="gmail-"><br>Performance seems to be on par with other drives at
this price point. I have attached my crystaldiskmark results to this
review. Random writes seem to do better vs. random reads. For consumers
running with traditional mechanical drives upgrading to an SSD like this
is a huge performance boost.<br><br>My only knock against it is the
build quality of the casing. It's very lightweight plastic vs. what
Sandisk uses in their similar priced and performing SSDs. But if you're
installing this inside a computer that likely doesn't matter.<br><br>Long
term reliability is unknown but I'll update this review if I encounter
any issues in the future. Longsys has been at this for awhile so I'm
anticipating about the same long-term reliability of similar drives at
this price point.<br><br></span></span><div>If I was in the market for a drive I'd probably
go with a Sandisk given their more established presence here in the
United States. Sandisk's drives cost the same or less as these Lexar
models. <div class="gmail-a-profile-content" style="display:inline!important"><span class="gmail-a-profile-name"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/profile/amzn1.account.AFZUOFUOCZ34A2VTM5QPQ7ZEE65Q/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_gw_btm?ie=UTF8" class="gmail-a-profile"><u>Lon J. Seidman</u></a></span></div>"</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 11:56, Don Tai <<a href="mailto:dontai.canada@gmail.com">dontai.canada@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">That's pretty cheap, though a traditional 3.5" HD 2T is about the same price.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 11:48, Giles Orr via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 at 10:51, William Park via talk <<a href="mailto:talk@gtalug.org" target="_blank">talk@gtalug.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">What's going on in SSD market?<br>
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