Lexar SL500 2TB Portable SSD Review

1. Introduction2. Lexar SL500 2TB3. ATTO/CrystalDiskMark/AS SSD4. Throughput5. PCMark 10 Data Drive Benchmark6. Import / Export7. Real Life File Transfers8. Closing Thoughts9. View All Pages

Lexar rates the SL500 at up to 2,000MB/s for Sequential reads and 1,800MB/s for writes. In our throughput tests, the drive didn't quite hit those official maximums with a peak read figure of 1,877MB/s (8MB block) with writes peaking at 1,765MB/s (16MB). At the 256KB block mark the write performance of the drive drops but it recovers quickly enough. Although the tested read/write figures are shy of the official ratings, the drive still offers strong performance.

In the read-throughput test, the drive peaked at the 8MB Block at 1,877.87MB/s before dropping back slightly to finish the test run at 1,857.21MB/s.

In the write throughput test, the performance of the drive isn't exactly a smooth curve and between the 128KB and 256KB blocks the performance falls away but the drive soon recovers to finish the the test run at 1,765.74MB/s, the peak figure the drive manages in this test

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