Storage Devices
Lexar NQ100 480GB SSD Review
Benchmarking of Lexar NQ100
Component |
Product Name |
Provided By |
Processor |
Intel I7 10700KF | |
Motherboard |
ASRock Z590 PG Velocita | ASRock |
Memory |
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Drive |
(2)SK Hynix Gold P31 PCIe NVMe Gen3 M.2 2280 Internal SSD – 500GB NVMe | |
Video Cards |
MSI GeForce RTX 2080 Super | MSI |
Monitor |
BenQ EL2870U 28 inch 4K HDR Gaming Monitor 3840×2160 @ 60 Hz |
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Case |
Open Test Bench |
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Power Supply |
Fractal Design ION+ 660P | Fractal Design |
Operating System |
Windows 10 2004 x64 Pro with latest patches and updates |
Crystal Disk Mark benchmark at 1GB test size:
AS SSD uses incompressible data for benchmarking and can measure read/write performance in MB/s or IOPS. AS SSD also has a Copy Benchmark which simulates ISO, Game, and program performance, providing both speed and access time results.
Unlike AS SSD, the ATTO disk benchmark is a 32-bit compressible data benchmark that measures read and write speeds across various file transfer sizes from 512B to 64MB to show SSD behavior.
Anvil Storage Utilities is a comprehensive storage testing program that provides plenty of information and option for each test. For this review, the SSD test was selected.
Random Threaded IO
Random Threaded IO Read Only
Random Threaded IO Write Only
Overall performance NQ100 was up to par with SSDs that feature cache less design. While testing the SSD with and without any files on it I saw a consistent performance while reading and writing. Just like every storage device out there, NQ100 had a slightly slower speed on writing data than reading it. As the drive was loaded with random files (at 75%) I saw a slight degradation in read and write speeds but nothing too alarming or to make me to believe caching would help.
The controller seems to be a rebadge of the MA0902-controller. My NQ100 480GB uses QLC instead of TLC :(