Lexar NQ100 480GB Solid State Drive Review

Lexar NQ100 Overview

The Lexar NQ100 is your typical 2.5-inch solid state drive. The drive is a dark grey color with blue accents, in the center is a Lexar logo and it says “Solid State Drive” below it.

Lexar NQ100 480GB Solid State Drive

Flipping over to the back we have the normal sticker that has all of your pertinent information on it. We can also see four mounting holes.

Lexar NQ100 480GB Solid State Drive

On one end of the drive you have your SATA data and power connections and on the side of the drive you have more mounting holes.

Lexar NQ100 480GB Solid State Drive Lexar NQ100 480GB Solid State Drive

This drive makes use of a Lexar-branded DM928 controller. We do not know a whole lot about this controller, but we do know that it is a DRAM-less controller so there is no DRAM cache chip on in this drive. The NAND chips are made by Micron and are 3D TLC NAND.

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