Lexar NM610 500GB SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Lexar NM610 500GB3. Testing Methodology4. CrystalDiskMark5. ATTO Disk Benchmark6. AS SSD7. IOMETER8. 128KB Sequential Performance9. 4K Random Read v QD Performance10. 4K Random Write v QD Performance11. 4K 70/30 Mixed Performance12. Throughput13. PCMark 8 Storage Test - Individual Test Suites14. PCMark 10 Full System Drive Benchmark 15. Performance Stability16. Real Life File Testing17. Closing Thoughts18. View All Pages

For testing, the drives are all wiped and reset to factory settings by HDDerase V4. We try to use free or easily available programs and some real-world testing so you can compare our findings against your own system.
This is a good way to measure potential upgrade benefits.

Main system:
AMD Ryzen 5 3600X, 16GB DDR4-2400, Sapphire R9 390 Nitro and an MSI MPG X570 Gaming Edge Wifi motherboard.

Other drives.
500GB Class.
Corsair Force MP500 480GB
Gigabyte Aorus RGB 512GB
Intel Optane SSD900P 480GB
Intel Optane SSD905P 480GB
Intel SSD760p 512GB
Kingston A1000 480GB
Lexar NM600 480GB
Plextor M9Pe(Y) 512GB
Plextor M8PeG 512GB
Toshiba OCZ RD400 512GB
Western Digital Blue SN500 500GB

Software:
Atto Disk Benchmark 3.5 & 4.0
CrystalMark 6.0.0 & 7.0.0.
AS SSD 2.0.
IOMeter.
PCMark 08.
PCMark 10.

All our results were achieved by running each test five times with every configuration this ensures that any glitches are removed from the results. Trim is confirmed as running by typing fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify into the command line. A response of disabledeletenotify =0 confirms TRIM is active.

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